Johan squinted, feeling the abrupt shift in the atmosphere. What was once a gray expanse above them was now consumed by an inky void. The sudden transition from their bleak surroundings to an even deeper darkness caught him off guard.
'Why now? What's changed?' Johan's mind raced, seeking explanations. The obsidian canopy gave no answers, only a smothering blanket of black.
"It's like the very sky has been swallowed," Danny murmured, his voice tinged with unease.
Johan glanced upwards, his usual fiery confidence replaced by concern. "I've seen many things, but this... this is new."
In a desperate bid for visibility, Johan ignited his torch, but the flame spluttered and died, almost as if choked by an unseen force. Ken, with a determined look, let his Kagune flare to life. But its radiant, fiery glow was reduced to a mere ember, its luminance stifled by the encroaching darkness.
