'Impossible,' Bane was alarmed, disbelief cutting through his focus for the first time. 'My domain has no effect?'
The realization struck him like a blow. This being wasn't resisting his domain. It was ignoring it.
That alone shattered everything Bane understood about power. A domain was the ultimate expression of authority, within it, the owner was law, rule, and executioner. Movement without permission should have been impossible. One can break through a domain if they possessed a stronger domain or is simply of higher existence, but for a domain to possess no effect was unheard of at least for Bane...
Yet whatever this was, it moved.
He twisted again, narrowly evading as the unseen aura brushed past him, close enough to make his skin crawl violently. The darkness rippled where it passed, not torn or disrupted, but displaced, like water flowing around an immovable object.
Bane clenched his teeth as his mind raced.
Zorvak's words surfaced unbidden.
