"I am the Star God Knight, Modric. Who are you? Why did you kill my mount?" the human Star Descendant asked angrily.

"Wait a minute, that snake-like Star God was your mount?" Anthony asked.

Modric said, "Yes."

"You’re human, right? That Star God was your mount? It obeys your command?" Anthony asked suspiciously.

Modric said proudly, "Of course, I am the strongest Star God Knight in the Void, and Dodo is my partner."

Negris couldn’t help but interject, "Strongest Star God Knight? But your mount is dead, what are you riding now?"

"You—" Modric was furious, then looked puzzled at Anthony because Negris’s voice was clearly different from Anthony’s, and he couldn’t distinguish different consciousnesses on the Stacked Pieces.

Negris’s old face emerged on Anthony: "What are you looking at? I’m still the strongest mount in the Void. Where’s your mount?"

Oh—Anthony and the others suddenly realized, no wonder Negris was roasting him, it felt like it had taken on the identity of a mount, and it rarely acknowledged that it was Ange’s mount.

"Alright, alright, let’s not talk about that. Your mount wasn’t killed by us but by another ghost," Anthony said.

Apparently, Modric was already dumbfounded, confusing them with another Stacked Piece ghost. He wasn’t going to take the blame for this.

"There... there’s another one?" Modric was shocked.

"Yes, we don’t know it. It killed your mount and Soul Searched it, possibly gathering information about this place. Can you tell us what your situation is? What’s the situation here?" Anthony asked.

"Hmph, you’re all the same, trying to get information from me? Dream on!" Modric said angrily.

Anthony was taken aback, and he and Negris’s face looked at each other: "Don’t you realize your current predicament? Then let you try endless drowning in darkness, endless falling until decades later..."

With Anthony’s words, Modric’s eyes lost focus, and his form retracted into the White Crystal.

A few minutes later, Anthony waved his hand: "Wake up."

As soon as the words fell, a human face struggling desperately to scream and howl emerged from the White Crystal, struggling to break free and re-form Modric’s shape.

As if experiencing something terrifying, Modric’s eyes lost focus, constantly touching his face and form.

While touching, he might have realized that his form was intact, his eyes finally cleared, and he looked up, left, and right, finally focusing on Anthony, then trembling like he had seen a ghost.

Negris asked in shock: "What did you do to him? Why does he look like he’s seen a ghost?"

"Endless drowning, you know the Soul Prison, right? It’s a bit better than the Soul Prison... uh, not really better because I added some ingredients. He would instantly lose all sensor abilities, consciousness plunged into a soundless, pitch-black world, unable to perceive any external information. In that state, he couldn’t know the passage of time. Even if only a few minutes passed, it could feel like decades," Anthony explained.

Negris exclaimed: "You put him in a lightless, soundless world for decades?"

Anthony nodded: "You could say that."

"Putting him in the Soul Prison would be better. At least in the Soul Prison, while enduring pain, one can sense the passage of time. This short period won’t make you break down. If it really felt like decades, he’s strong not to have gone mad. No wonder you said ’not really better’," Negris retorted.

The void of darkness is probably more torturous than the Soul Prison because you don’t know what’s happening outside, how much time has passed, and you can’t feel the passage of time. Staying in it for long can easily drive someone mad.

At the Stellaris Academy, there is a quiet room for learning sound-based Arcane Magic, where it’s so quiet, you can hear your blood flowing. No one has ever lasted a whole day inside, not even the Truth Mages.

Most people go mad after four or five hours at most, and the scenario Anthony described is many thousands of times more terrifying than this quiet room. It’s impressive Modric managed to survive.

Of course, primarily because the time is short, Anthony added some ingredients, just making him ’feel’ like time was long, as if decades had passed, but it was actually only a few minutes.

But that was enough to crush Modric. After re-forming, his demeanor was nowhere near as arrogant as before, but rather timid, like he had just been humiliated.

Realizing that a single thought from Anthony could plunge him into endless drowning in darkness, Modric became much more compliant, answering every question and quickly clarifying his situation.

This place is a world very similar to the Divine Light Alliance, with many Planes, dominated by humans, but with many different Life Species residing in various Planes.

Different Planes are connected via Airships and Teleportation Arrays, and powerful beings can even enter the Void for a short time, much like the heyday of the Divine Light Alliance.

However, unlike the Divine Light Alliance, the God Star here has aged, and without the restraint of the Ancient Man Snake, this has caused two problems.

First, the Star Descendants and Life Species cohabit, and second, the status of the Star Descendants has declined.

The God Star is already aged, meaning the incremental growth is minimal, making it hard to increase the number of Star Descendants.

With numbers no longer rising, Star Descendants have entered an era of depletion; losing one means one less, and they won’t randomly fight with others.

Without the restraint of the Ancient Man Snake, the Star Descendants cohabit with the Life Species, and Star Descendants that don’t dare fight recklessly with people have developed a new way to coexist with Life Species—a Symbiotic Knight.

By processing White Crystals, adding another layer of White Crystal on the surface, and inscribing Inscriptions on the outer White Crystal, it creates a state of symbiosis with two consciousnesses in one White Crystal.

Then they select the child with the strongest spiritual power and have them train from a young age until they can project consciousness on the outer layer of the White Crystal, allowing two consciousnesses to use one body simultaneously, and even condense into different functional forms for each to use.

Everything was harmonious until the God Star suddenly freaked out and sent a terrifying vibration through the Void. Last week, all Planes were trembling.

Ursman interjected: "He probably means spatial trembling. Here, being close, you can feel the spatial vibration."

It was more than just feeling; it was deafening. From that moment, everyone started preparing to flee.

Fortunately, they were prepared, and dozens of days later, the God Star suddenly transformed into a pitch-black Abyss, generating immense suction that pulled all nearby Planes in.

Only those who were prepared and had Star God mounts managed to escape.

"Do you know why the God Star suddenly collapsed into an Abyss? Was it provoked by something?" Anthony asked.