***
{Outside The Projection}
Again, the hall wasn't surprised by what Malik had done.
No one even gasped anymore.
They'd accepted it.
This was just… Malik now.
But still… Sitah. The Sixth Layer.
A place even the strongest of their Jinn feared.
The oldest seekers, the monsters of legend...
Barely any had made it this far.
Only Mithqals, and even they struggled.
But Malik?
HE WALKED IT.
Dominated it and didn't even break stride.
The crowd didn't know whether to be terrified or thrilled.
Still, and for the third time, that didn't surprise them.
What did, however, was the land he walked on itself.
The land of death.
A land of rot.
A land no man was ever meant to set foot on.
A land none of them expected they'd ever see.
This gave them a dangerous kind of excitement.
It made them think of a now-repeated question:
'What's next?'
***
{Inside The Projection}
Malik, after a few hours of falling, landed on the ground.
