The Void Sea
The Void Sea is an ethereal ocean that flows between universes. It acts like water, eternally cycling from low places to high in an infinite loop, neither decreasing nor increasing. Even time and space can only influence it for a moment, as it transfers its mist-like essence from one reality to another.
The Void Sea is said to possess corrosive properties that can erode anything it touches: energy, physical laws, matter, spiritual energy, memories, consciousness, and even existence itself. It is the ultimate solvent of reality.
Though the origin of worlds can help heal the corrosion caused by the Void Sea, its effect is minimal. It can slow the decay, but it can never make the corrosion fully disappear.
In a volatile area of the Void Sea, where time and space violently interfered, the body of an unconscious boy—still lathered in soap suds—drifted aimlessly. As the Sea began to act upon him, the boy's consciousness was jolted awake by an agony beyond comprehension. His very physical form, the vessel for his soul, was being eroded.
The pain of being unmade was so immense that his consciousness flickered, waking and fainting in a rapid, torturous cycle. While his body was eroded, it was also being healed, but at a snail's pace. Even this miraculous healing could not compete with the Void Sea on its home ground. The force mending the boy was the World Origin of Blue Star.
The Blue Star universe is one of the high-tier universes, strengthened by the countless time travelers who originate from it. Many of these travelers eventually return to aid their home, making the universe more powerful with each cycle. This is the very reason the three major gods could not defeat it. While its high status helped, its connections to countless powerful time travelers were the main source of its strength. Thus, the Origin of the Blue Star universe is of a very high level.
And so, it fought back. It could not stop the corrosion, but it could heal the boy just enough to retain the core of his existence, the integrity of his soul, and the last vestiges of his life's blood.
As the sea eroded the boy's soul, a transfer through time and space was also occurring; his soul was being ripped from one area and flung to another. During this harrowing journey, his soul passed through a region where a universe was being destroyed.
Though the boy was unconscious and could not see it, the profound feeling of a world's death was seared into his very soul. The world being destroyed was not a mere plane or a simple dimension—it was a peak-mid-level universe, complete with its own perfect laws of time, space, and fate.
This is why the Void Sea was also called the Tomb of Universes. Everything that is destroyed is eventually absorbed by it. The existence of the world is erased, and only its raw, fundamental essence is preserved and consumed by the endless Void Sea.
As the boy's soul was endlessly eroded and healed, flung from one place to another, it witnessed countless universes being born and destroyed. It saw the glorious growth of worlds and their violent, inevitable ends.
The journey continued until he arrived in a place of nothing but the mist of the Void Sea. Here, even the Blue Star's Origin could no longer help him; it was being consumed at a rapid pace, with only a tiny fragment left to sustain him.
But as they say, when a god wills a fate, even heaven can do nothing. Or perhaps it was a miracle—his very existence had become one, surviving against countless chances of erasure.
In the area where the boy's soul drifted, a bright light appeared, traveling at a rapid pace. Inside the light was a sphere, divided into black and white with a band of gray in the middle. It moved without a purpose, completely unaffected by the Void Sea's corrosive influence.
As it traveled near the boy, his soul instinctively reached for it. It wasn't because the light felt gentle or powerful, but because in a place like the Void Sea, any bright light could be a safe haven. He was being erased, and even with the help of the Blue Star's origin, he could not last much longer. His soul, driven by a final, desperate instinct, clung to it. Whether it would help or harm him no longer mattered.
Just as the boy clung to the bright light, his soul was absorbed by it. Instinctively, the boy's soul fought against the absorption. During this struggle, the tiny remaining fragment of the Blue Star Universe's origin helped the boy's soul merge with the light, and in doing so, the origin was completely consumed, its purpose finally ended.
It became clear that the bright light was not a conscious being. Even as the boy merged with it, the light offered no resistance. Its only action was to passively absorb whatever had clung to it.
Once merged, the boy's soul and existence became one with the light. With time and space constantly shifting around it, the merged light eventually arrived at a universe and took solace within it. It traveled into the universe at a rapid pace.
The powerful beings within this new universe didn't even take a tiny notice of it, as if the merged light was not even there. It moved rapidly from one world to another within the universe, finally settling on a world filled with magic and magical beings. The light traveled to a remote part of a specific country and, at last, merged itself into the belly of a woman.
As the light merged into the woman's belly, it flashed with a brilliance only it could perceive. Yet, the energy affected both the woman and a man hunting in a distant forest. A halo of white light momentarily enveloped each of them before merging into their beings. In that same instant, both the man and the woman felt a profound sense of peace and sighed in unison, a wave of relief washing over them for reasons they could not yet understand.