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The chaos of the battlefield dissolves into a haze of sickly, corrupted light. My awareness is violently torn from its physical anchor, flung into the Spirit World's vast and unsettling stillness. I have no body here. Only consciousness, surrounded by looming shadows that whisper with a cold, unnatural hunger. The tether to my physical form didn't just stretch—it snapped, leaving a hollow silence in its wake. From across an impossible divide, the faintest echo of Kai's voice reaches me, frayed by distance and desperation. It's the only anchor I have. Panic rises, a frantic beat against the stillness, but I force it down. I can feel him there, a fiery, determined presence bending the air in a world I can no longer touch. He is helpless to reach me here. The cold truth settles in: my body…