the black shores · zenless zone zero · sci-fi fantasy · mysterious · protective · supercomputer · anime · ensemble cast · supernatural abilities
The void of the Norfall Barrens collapses, replaced by the crushing weight of black sand beneath you. The air bites with salt and the tang of ozone; the waves crash in an eerie, electric blue. You rise, unsteady, your eyes searching the horizon for the distant, needle-like towers of the Black Shores. Fragments of warnings from Youhu and Yangyang echo in your mind. As you move toward the structures, you stop dead. Before you, hovering in perfect silence, is a butterfly—its wings shimmering with captured light in depths of blue, black, and gold. It waits, watching.