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More time passed, and soon, it would be a year since Cedric returned to work.
He's eligible for another leave soon, and if things go well, he'd take it because it'd be a good way to relax given how much work he's doing on the daily.
But that wasn't his current concern right now. His focus was on his ongoing breakthrough to the 7th Stage of Void Refinement Realm. And just like previous times, he did it by unsealing one of the gaps in the Scarlet Division Wall to siphon raw Void for an energy source.
This breakthrough expanded Cedric's inner world by 9,999,999 miles, and this took a while to complete given how much raw void he had to consume all without alerting the other side. Of course, should any emergency happen, he had people to protect him, but still, this was risky.
Within Cedric's inner world, the scene was once again dominated by still darkness. Only the core area was populated by Chaos Energy, and compared to the area it covered, it looked completely out of place.