The moment Seraphina's fingertips touched the oily, grey edge of the D-4 Breach, a silent explosion of information flooded her mind. Her silver eyes didn't just widen; they began to bleed grey mist. She saw the world not as matter, but as a crumbling sandcastle in a cosmic storm.
"Don't let go," Arthur's voice commanded, echoing inside her skull. "If you pull back now, your soul will be scattered across a thousand dead dimensions."
As Seraphina's aura began to shift, turning from a bright frost-blue to a translucent, haunting silver, a roar shattered the silence of the wasteland. From the distorted shadows of the obsidian forest, a Rank 6: Guardian Beast (The Void-Stalker) emerged.
It was a monstrosity of bone and dark matter, thirty feet tall, with a "Domain" of silence that suppressed all Qi within a mile. It had sensed the Breach—a feast of pure energy it couldn't ignore.
"A Rank 6 Domain," Arthur mused, not even turning his head as the beast lunged. "In this world, you are a god of the wilderness. To me, you are just a parasite."
Arthur raised his left hand, while his right remained near Seraphina to stabilize her. He didn't use 10% this time. He opened the floodgates.
"Void Erasure: Absolute Zero."
He didn't fire a bolt of lightning. Instead, he simply "unmade" the space where the beast existed. A sphere of grey nothingness expanded instantly, swallowing the Guardian Beast's head and torso. There was no blood, no sound of impact. The creature's Rank 6 Domain popped like a soap bubble. The remaining half of its massive body collapsed, turning into fine ash before it could even hit the plateau.
At that exact moment, Seraphina's transformation reached its peak. Her eyes snapped open—they were no longer silver, but a terrifying Void-Silver, swirling with the starless depth of the Sixth Plane.
"I see it, Arthur," she whispered, her voice layered with a thousand echoes. "I see the strings... and I see the hand that pulls them."
She had reached Rank 5 (Spirit Sea) in a single leap, but her "Sea" was now filled with the cold, eternal frost of the Void.