Anyone else would hesitate to enter this place. The darkness was absolute, stretching in every direction without a single point of light to guide the way.
But he wasn't about to turn back.
He still remembered the magic circle Index had used before they were separated. Its structure remained clear in his mind, along with the faint trace of her magical signature.
Asher raised his hand and conjured the circle from memory.
The formation flickered to life before him, its runes rotating as he began searching for her presence.
He adjusted the spell, widening its reach and allowing it to probe deeper into the darkness.
Still, the Void made the task far more difficult than he had anticipated. Its vastness was beyond anything he could measure, and the darkness seemed to swallow every trace of magic before it could travel far.
Even with his abilities, locating Index was like searching for a single grain of sand in an endless ocean.
Asher frowned.
An idea suddenly occurred to him.
