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"Noelle, do you remember how long we've been here?"
Two figures trudged across an endless wasteland of ash, a plain that seemed to stretch without end. Beneath their feet the ground was a bed of soft ashes where all things had long since burned to nothing.
Time itself had grown indistinct here. There was no light, no sound, no magic, no trace of void energy. It neither ran too fast nor too slow. It had simply ceased to matter. Without any reference, Sieg and Noelle could measure the passage of days only by their own bodies and the dwindling readings of their alchemical devices.
"Twenty-four days, seven hours, eight minutes… but I've lost count of the seconds," Noelle answered after a pause, her voice heavy with fatigue. "We're being drained of all our energy, like sponges soaked with water in the middle of a desert…"
Even in human form, the blood of dragons carried immense reservoirs of power, reserves far beyond those of any other race. Normally, such excess was a strength, lending them resilience and dominance. But here, in a realm utterly barren, their nature became a crushing weakness.
Their vitality bled away into the emptiness around them, a drain no willpower could resist. This world devoured power without end....
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