Dark realm

Previously

…Elias turned his gaze back towards the vast, unknowable expanse of the Dark Realm. The choice had been made. The path, however perilous, had been chosen. He was no longer just Elias, the scholar. He was Elias, the demon, the anomaly, the potential savior or destroyer of worlds. The abyss had claimed him, but in its depths, he had found not just despair, but a purpose. And with that purpose came a strange, unsettling sense of belonging. He was a part of this dark, unforgiving realm, and he would fight for it, not with the blind fury of a beast, but with the calculated precision of a mind that had once sought to understand the universe. The true battle, he knew, had only just begun.