Ash arrived in the Abyss, and for one had a shock as it looked nothing like what he assumed.
When one hears the Abyss, I'm sure something dark, evil, and all the other things come to mind. However, the three found themselves standing on top of a frozen lake.
The Lake was the realm… it was the Abyss and it stretched further than either of them could see.
Even with their mana sense… that's just how big it was especially if you take into account that Ash could cover an entire Galaxy with his mana sense.
The ice beneath their feet was flawless and transparent, revealing an endless depth of frozen souls suspended in crystalline stillness—countless figures locked in eternal poses, faces twisted in silent screams or vacant stares, their ethereal forms glowing faintly with trapped essence that cast pale, ghostly light upward through the ice.
