In the area extremely close to the Milky Way Central, there are various 'gray zones' between the starfields.
This is quite normal. Jia Yan has already encountered more than one such place, for instance in the Stellar War Zone, in the Northern Star Domain, inside the Orion Arm... In many places, such gray zones exist.
And here as well, there are many such zones, even more than in the outside world.
Because there are many strong ones here, a decaying Domain Master Level entity might find a gray zone to hide and wait for a resurgence.
However, more often than not, gray zones are intentionally created by adjacent starfields, because two major starfields need a buffer like this, and also require such a place to conduct some transactions.
So under tacit consent, these gray zones emerged, sprouting like mushrooms after the rain.
Poof.
A small shadow of a creature, not particularly large, flew out from the subspace interior, riding a single-person craft.
