Damien floated within the dark space of nothingness, and thought about the answer to The Primordial Source's suggestion.
But he then realized that overthinking the matter now was useless. Especially so, when he immediately jumped from Level 6, to Level 85 just like that.
Multiple procedures were skipped. And to be at tip top condition of his current realm, and be at full strength for his realm of power, he needed to go through them.
"..."
He turned to Flint, and the boy was still in the process of creating his Domain. He then turned to their soroundings, and could say with confidence that, this place was not their World/Realm anymore.
It was a gap in space. More likely, the space or emptiness where ordinary universes and other constructs would be suspended.
Hence the time here followed the world calender, meaning that the day he thought would take Flint to create his Domain, would be forty nine days in this place.