Chapter 25. Identity Revealed??
Within that infinite, formless void, No, not even void—a place I had come to recognize as 'nothingness'—there had once been peace.
Serenity.
Silence.
But then, a burst of radiant light shattered it all.
An alien concept intruded upon my eternal stillness. At first, it was just illumination, blinding and soft, and a few scattered particles drifting in the vast emptiness. Minor annoyances, nothing more. Fleeting specks of existence I tolerated.
I should've destroyed them the moment they appeared.
But I didn't.
I waited. Watched. Let them persist.
Over time, those specks—harmless as they were—began to converge. Not in harmony, but in chaos. They collided and contorted, forming uneven masses with jagged edges and erratic pulses.
With each union, they birthed more of their kind, expanding further and further like mold on a pristine surface.
And still, I allowed them to be.