In the second layer of the Void, filled with nothing but darkness, Michael placed the several monster corpses he had gathered from the chaos outside in positions based on the memory Jester had infused into his mind.
The name of the technique surfaced clearly in Michael's mind.
[Shroud of the Silent Dead]
It was a concealment method that used corpses as anchors to distort perception. It made the senses register anything the user of the technique desired as "dead" – like how inanimate objects had no life, or how the air itself was "empty." That was what the technique achieved.
It was also a gradeless technique, meaning its effect depended entirely on the user's means. For this operation Michael made sure the main anchors were all Rank 3 corpses.
Gathering them had not taken much effort, but to avoid detection he only took one from here and there. By the time the supers association noticed, it would no longer be his concern.
