Axel watched the tide of abstract seekers summoned by the Duke rush toward him like a collapsing mountain. The air itself felt thick and hostile, every cubic inch of space pressing down against his body with heavy, suffocating force.
An invisible layer of suppression had settled over him, making his limbs feel leaden and his breath taste of iron. But what disturbed him even more than the physical weakness was the silence within his mind.
Prime Nexus hadn't issued a single system alert. There was no notification warning him that he had been afflicted by a domain debuff, no numeric breakdown of his reduced stats... nothing.
It didn't take long for him to figure out why. A domain wasn't just a powerful spell cast over a battleground; it was a completely isolated, superimposed fragment of reality forced over the normal world.
