Within the dark realm of the entity wearing Nil's face, Acro watches the battle at the dock unfold upon the rippling surface of the ocean beneath him. His body trapped within a shard of ice, there wasn't much he could do but sigh as it approached, walking upon the waters as if it were ice. The scene shows Blaze watching as Melinoe is taken into custody. By not ending her life, Blaze has failed to uphold the deal he had struck with the monster, just as it knew he would. It leans down to get Acro's attention, staring with hollow eyes and grinning ear to ear. "Fine," Acro snarls, "Spare his life and I'll accept your deal." "Shake on it?" The thing offers a clawed hand and the ice around him melts away. Without hesitation Acro swings for the pale face, but he immediately sinks into the depths below. Sinking deeper and deeper, Acro instinctively gasps for air and his lungs fill with the wretched ichor. Eventually he falls through the surface below and lands hard upon cold stone. As he empties his lungs of the foul black liquid, he checks his surroundings. A flickering violet wisp of flame hovers above within what appears to be a collapsed cavern. With no visible way out and his lungs struggling in the thin air, Acro teleports away in a flash of Astral light, while the ichor fills grooves carved into the floor.