Absolute void surrounded them. No ground beneath their feet, no sky above, no horizon in any direction. Just endless, empty darkness stretching infinitely in all directions. The only sources of light were their own bodies, glowing faintly with their mana.

Panic hit immediately.

"What—where—!" Lyanna's senses kicked in, her body instinctively trying to find solid ground, but there was nothing.

"Father!" Cassandra's composure shattered as well. She was floating slowly through the void, unable to control her momentum.

"I can't—there's no air—I can't breathe!" Seraphine gasped, her hands clutching at her throat.

All three daughters were spiraling into full panic, their minds unable to process the complete absence. They had never been anywhere like this.

"Calm down," Julian's voice cut through their panic. "You're all demi-gods. You don't need air to survive. Your cultivation sustains you. Focus. Center yourselves. Control your fear."

His words had an immediate effect. The three women, despite their panic, were highly trained cultivators. They had spent centuries mastering their minds and bodies. Julian's calm authority gave them something to latch onto.

Seraphine was first to regain control. She forced her breathing to slow—not because she needed air, but because the familiar rhythm calmed her racing thoughts. Her tumbling gradually stopped as she used tiny bursts of energy to stabilize herself.

Lyanna's discipline asserted itself next. She stopped flailing, then carefully began using controlled movements to orient herself.

Cassandra took the longest. But eventually, she observed how her sisters were stabilizing and copied their techniques.

After what felt like an eternity but was probably only two or three minutes, all three daughters had calmed down. They floated in the void, no longer panicking.

Then Julian materialized before them.

He appeared suddenly.

"Better?" he asked softly.

"Where are we?" Seraphine managed to ask, her voice still shaky but under control.

"We're in the void between realms," Julian explained. "The space that exists outside of worlds, outside of normal reality. This is what lies between Arenath's many worlds."

"It's so empty," Lyanna whispered, looking around at the absolute nothingness. "So... lonely."

"It is," Julian agreed. "But it's also full of potential. Every world that exists emerged from a void like this."

He smiled and gestured downward. "Now, look below you."

All three daughters looked down.

And gasped.

Below them—far, far below—was a world.

It was massive, spherical, and rotating slowly in the void. But it looked nothing like their home realm. Where the Throne of Gods was vibrant and alive, this world appeared harsh and hostile even from this incredible distance.

The surface was a canvas of extreme environments. One hemisphere glowed red with volcanic activity, rivers of lava visible even from space. The other hemisphere was frozen, covered in glaciers and storms.

"That's one of Arenath's worlds," Julian said quietly. "One of millions. Would you like to see it up close?"

Before they could answer, Julian gestured, and reality shifted again.

They fell—or descended, or teleported; it was impossible to tell. The world below rushed up toward them with impossible speed, growing larger and larger until it filled their entire field of vision.

The three daughters gasped in awe and horror at what they saw.

They were soaring over the volcanic region. Below them, the ground was cracked and broken, glowing with heat. Lava flowed in massive rivers.

And there were creatures.

Massive things, easily the size of houses, with bodies that seemed to be made partially of the molten stone itself. They battled each other savagely, their roars causing the very air to vibrate.

"They're all at least Grand Mage level," Seraphine observed. "That one—the flame creature—it might be an early demi-god."

"And they're fighting to the death," Lyanna added, her eye tracking the combat. "Not for territory or food—just pure survival. Kill or be killed."

Julian guided them forward, and the landscape changed. They crossed from the volcanic region into a zone where fire met ice. Here, the environment was even more chaotic—scorching heat on one side, freezing cold on the other.

Creatures adapted to both extremes fought here, their battles even more desperate. A massive ice-based entity, its body composed of countless sharp crystals, was locked in combat with a beast that seemed to be pure heat and flame. Where they touched, explosions of steam and energy erupted.

"This entire world is a battlefield," Cassandra said quietly, horror and fascination mixing in her voice. "There's no safe place."

"Exactly," Julian confirmed.

They continued their flight, crossing into the frozen hemisphere. Here, everything was ice and snow. The temperature was so low that even the air seemed to freeze into visible crystals. And still, creatures fought.

A massive pack of wolf-like beasts with fur made of frost hunted something that resembled a bear, its body armored in ice so thick it was nearly impenetrable.

"How do they even eat?" Lyanna wondered aloud. "Everything here is trying to kill everything else. How do they survive long enough to grow this powerful?"

"They consume each other," Julian said simply. "The strong devour the weak, taking not just their flesh but their energy, their cultivation. Every kill makes them stronger. It's a system of constant evolution through conflict."

They flew onward, and Julian guided them toward a particular region—a rare middle zone between the extremes.

And here, they witnessed something different.

A war.

Julian brought them lower, hovering perhaps a hundred feet above the conflict, close enough to observe details.

What they witnessed made all three daughters pause in shock.

It wasn't monsters or beasts fighting this time. It was humans.

Two distinct tribes faced each other across a narrow valley, easily several hundred warriors on each side. But these weren't the humans from their home realm or the mortal worlds—these were humans forged by Arenath's brutality.

The tribe on the left wore armor that seemed to be made of fire, their bodies wreathed in flames. Their skin had a reddish tint, and their eyes glowed like embers. They wielded weapons of pure fire—swords, spears, and axes. Their cultivation energy was clearly fire-based, each warrior at minimum Arch-Mage level, with their leaders showing Grand Mage aura.

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