Chapter 217 Echoes in the Enigma

The distortion spat them out into a void of absolute silence. No stars twinkled, no planets or moons cast a faint glow. There was nothing but an unending expanse of inky blackness, devoid of any light or sound. An unsettling feeling, a suffocating emptiness, wrapped itself around the team like a shroud. Asa, her empathy reaching out cautiously, encountered a chilling void. There were no emotions, no echoes of thoughts or feelings, just a deafening silence that seemed to eat away at her very being. This wasn't a world of chaos or imbalance, but a terrifying absence – an enigma shrouded in an impenetrable darkness. Denji, his usual bravado failing him for the sixth time, scratched his head in confusion. "This place is even weirder than the last two combined! Where's the screaming, the crying, even the robots talking in clicks and whirrs? It's like everything just... stopped." A nervous chuckle escaped his lips, echoing strangely in the suffocating silence. Aki, his analytical