Dying for Eternity (1)

Domain.

For tamed monsters, this is the culmination of their very existence. The step just before they attain their own Kingdom. Within their Domains, they can manifest various effects, and their abilities experience a minimum twofold boost.

But for tamers, it's a little different.

Even among the legendary God Tamers of the past, only Zeshion had ever achieved a proper Domain. The rest fell short. For a tamer, unlocking a Domain isn't something that just happens—it's something that must be earned.

As I activated mine, the sky darkened.

No... not darkened. It vanished as the space itself shifted. We, who were floating in the open sky just moments ago, now found ourselves in an entirely different world.

A realm of darkness. An endless void of emptiness.

Yet to me, it was a familiar place. Though I've yet to recover most of my memories tied to it, I knew it well.

A place where an instant stretches into eternity.

That's right...