Chapter 97

In that eternal instant, Alex's extrasensory perceptions flared to new heights of clarity. He could discern each individual mote of darkness as a singular discontinuity in the matrix of light and matter surrounding it. Infinitesimal fractal branches webbing outward, coagulating into constellations of Stygian potentiality against the bright world's shimmering interference.

With a mere flicker of willful intention, Alex birthed forth a swarm of umbral seedlings from the void-stuff's primordial wombscape. Elemental shadows given purpose, focusing into egg-like nodules glistening like galaxies of purest antimatter distilled. These were the seeds through which he could gestate and project his interdimensional influence.

The spherical seedlings shuddered with scarcely contained potential for a breathless moment before beginning to split apart along geometric fissures. Their forms unfurled in spiral fractals of exponential complexity, kaleidoscopic shards of obsidian reshaping into intrica