Leviathan did not retaliate as the darkness consumed him.
He felt it the moment it closed around him, the precise instant his connection to the outside world was severed, clean and absolute, like a door being shut from the other side.
He took stock of his surroundings with the practiced calm of something that did not even consider surprise as a possibility.
What greeted him was a stretch of unending space, dark and vast and featureless in the way that Elemental Domains created by individuals of Eighth Rank and higher tended to be, the interior reflecting the scale of the mind that had built it rather than any physical location.
He realised in an instant that the darkness around him was not simple, the simple, consuming void that erased things and attempted to return them to their origin point, which was itself a formidable weapon, but one that would never be able to harm him, not by its mere presence.
