The Void!
It was vast nothingness punctuated only by the distant glimmers of Star Seas, each one a bubble of existence floating in an ocean of aggressive absence.
Achilles actually began his journey by assimilating The Void before anything else, a decision that would have been considered suicidal by any being who understood what The Void truly was!
The process was terrifying in its wrongness.
Endless waves of nothingness rushed into him…not energy or matter but the active absence of both. It was like trying to drink emptiness, to digest negation, to make part of himself something that existed specifically as the antithesis of existence!
His form flickered between being and not-being as The Void fought against the very concept of being assimilated.
How does one absorb absence? How does one integrate nothingness into something? The paradox would have shattered a lesser consciousness, but Achilles had already proven that paradoxes were just puzzles he hadn't solved yet.
