Chapter 351: The Heart of Darkness, The Key to the Kingdom

The air in the deepest chamber of the bunker was thick and suffocating, heavy with an ancient pressure that seemed to press down on the very soul. It was a cold, dead place, carved from bedrock and reinforced with alloys that hummed with a faint, residual energy. At the center of the vast, circular room, suspended in a shimmering anti-gravity field, was their prize: the Heart of Darkness. It was not a heart of flesh and blood. It was a sphere of pure, obsidian blackness, so deep and absolute...