The old man led Max through the flowing currents of starlight until they came to a stop in a quiet pocket of space. The void here was different. It was neither empty nor still. The surrounding stars shimmered faintly, and strange waves of golden energy pulsed outward from a single point ahead of them, rippling across the void like gentle tides on an endless sea.
Max blinked several times, trying to comprehend what he was seeing. Before him floated something small—astonishingly small considering the energy it gave off. Suspended in the midst of the endless cosmos was a bright blue seed, no larger than a fruit, and yet its glow illuminated a vast region of space.
Around it, four golden energy rings revolved slowly, each rotating at a slightly different speed, intersecting and crossing one another in rhythmic motion. Every turn of those rings sent waves of energy through the void, bending the light of distant stars and distorting reality itself.
