The deeper I descended into this strange darkness, the greater the pressure became.
The pressure kept building around me, weighing down my limbs and dulling my speed.
The wolf, however, moved as freely as it had at the start of the fight
Another realization followed immediately afterward.
This space was behaving like an ocean.
Not literally, of course. There was no water, no currents, and I could still breathe normally. But the deeper I went, the greater the resistance acting on my body became, much like descending into deeper and deeper water.
Strange. This space was acting like an ocean, yet it wasn't one.
I frowned and tried something else, activating [Flame Orb] in the hope that it would at least give me some light. A sphere of fire formed in my palm, but the moment it appeared, the darkness swallowed it whole, snuffing it out as though it had never existed.
