Damien had become too used to darkness.
This was another case where everything in his surroundings was dark, but unlike every other time, he wasn't in an empty expanse.
This darkness came from the extreme density of material in the surroundings instead of emptiness.
He was currently plunging into the depths of the earth. He'd turned his body ethereal through a variation of One With Dimension and used that illusive property to make this move, but he could clearly feel the consequences that would strike him the second he materialized.
It reminded him of that time with Elitra.
If he misstepped even once, his body would either fuse with the matter around him or explode because it couldn't exist in the same space.
'I have to find shelter.'
It was widely known that there was nothing under the surface of the Ancient Battlefield. After being used for so long, its basic mechanisms weren't stranger to those who fought on it.
