Apex allowed Cain several quiet moments to absorb everything he had just witnessed before the image of the Prima Universe faded away.
The darkness settled, and then the System Spirit's voice echoed once more—this time even heavier, even more somber. "Honestly, I have no knowledge of the Root. However… do you understand the kind of power required to move through the Emptiness?"
Cain's eyes sharpened immediately. Those words stirred something deep within him.
He had caught only the briefest glimpse of that impossible dimension beyond the Universe Wall when he and Anark forced the Heart of the Root away, and even now he could not provide even the slightest description of it. Everything about that place violated reason. Every law, every sensation, every intuition failed to function. His mind and soul could not process it.
