Chapter 74
Author: Rik_Da
last update2026-09-06 12:37:44

The visual world vanished.

It was not just dark, but a painful, absolute nothingness.

Thousands of pairs of eyes whose pupils had shrunk extremely a second ago to withstand the bombardment of thousands of watts of stage spotlights, were now forced to stare into a zero-lumen void. Their retinas experienced a light overload, making this transition to darkness feel like true blindness.

There was no instant adaptation.

Behind their eyelids, all that remained were afterimages. Ghostly patches of
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