Everything shifted.
The battlefield, the shrieking of the Kraken, the molten scars left in the wake of its cosmic destruction—it all felt distant. As if I had taken a step beyond the physical world.
Because something inside me had changed.
I could feel it.
The Void.
The stars in my core were no longer separate, no longer scattered fragments of power held together by tenuous connections. They had been pulled inward, drawn into something new—something denser, heavier, more absolute.
Not another star.
Not a chain of lights connected by thin threads of energy.
But a center.
A singularity.
A gravity unlike anything I had ever felt before.
I inhaled.
And when I did, the very air around me responded.
