Endless Chaos – Chaos Void Plane
The Path of Knowledge
Chapter 1 – The Artifact of Curiosity
In the Endless Chaos, universes were not unique.
They drifted like countless spheres within an infinite sea of violent energy, each one containing stars, worlds, and civilizations that believed their universe was the center of existence.
But beyond them all existed something older.
Something far more mysterious.
The Chaos Void Plane.
A primordial realm where the foundations of reality were born.
Arin knew nothing about any of that.
To him, the universe was simple.
Stars, planets, life.
And questions.
Lots of questions.
He had always been curious.
Why did gravity exist?
Why did stars burn?
Why did the universe even exist in the first place?
Most people stopped asking such things once they grew older.
But Arin never did.
Curiosity was the one thing that always pushed him forward.
Even today.
The mountain wind blew gently across the excavation site.
Arin stood inside the ruins of an ancient underground structure recently discovered beneath a remote mountain range. Most researchers had already left, believing the place contained nothing of value.
But Arin stayed behind.
Because something about the ruins bothered him.
Or rather—
Intrigued him.
The underground chamber was silent and filled with dust. Broken stone pillars surrounded the room, and faded carvings covered the walls. Strange geometric patterns ran across the surface of the stone as if they once formed some kind of ancient system.
Arin slowly walked deeper into the chamber.
"Strange…" he murmured.
The carvings didn't look like ordinary decorations.
They resembled symbols.
Symbols that looked almost like mathematical structures.
As if someone had tried to describe reality itself.
At the center of the room stood a single pedestal.
Unlike everything else in the ruins, the pedestal remained perfectly intact.
And resting on top of it was something small.
A cube.
Arin approached slowly.
The object was no larger than his palm, made of a dark metallic material that absorbed the surrounding light. Its surface was covered with faint moving patterns, like endless streams of microscopic symbols shifting and rearranging themselves.
Arin's heartbeat quickened.
"This doesn't look ancient…"
He carefully picked it up.
The moment his fingers touched the cube—
Everything stopped.
The wind froze.
Dust particles hung motionless in the air.
Even the faint sounds of the outside world disappeared.
Arin blinked.
"What…?"
The cube slowly floated out of his hand.
Then a voice appeared inside his mind.
Not a sound.
But a thought that clearly did not belong to him.
[Curiosity detected.]
Arin staggered back.
"What is this thing?"
The cube rotated slowly in the air.
[Qualification confirmed.]
Light suddenly erupted from the artifact.
Strange geometric structures formed around Arin, filling the chamber with glowing symbols and shifting lines that resembled massive calculations.
Information began flooding into his mind.
Chaos.
Void.
Concept.
World Seeds.
Universe Planes.
Paths.
Arin held his head as waves of knowledge rushed through his thoughts.
"Wait—slow down!"
But the artifact continued.
[Chaos Wonder Artifact of Knowledge – Activation.]
Arin struggled to remain standing.
The cube glowed brighter.
[Primary Function: Record, analyze, and preserve knowledge.]
[Secondary Function: Assist bearer in the pursuit of understanding.]
Arin forced himself to focus.
"You're… helping me?"
The artifact responded calmly.
[Bearer identified.]
[Candidate for Concept Path: Knowledge.]
Arin frowned.
"Concept Path?"
Before he could ask another question, the cube projected an image into his mind.
It was a vision of something impossible.
He saw countless spheres floating in a vast ocean of chaotic energy.
Each sphere contained galaxies, stars, and civilizations.
Universes.
Beyond them all existed something enormous.
A flat realm stretching endlessly across the chaos.
Worlds were growing from its surface like seeds.
Dimensions expanded and collapsed.
Concepts formed like living forces.
Then the artifact spoke again.
[Destination identified: Chaos Void Plane.]
Arin's eyes widened.
"Destination?"
The artifact answered with perfect calm.
[Transfer sequence initiated.]
Reality shattered.
The chamber cracked like broken glass.
The mountain.
The sky.
The stars.
Everything collapsed into fragments of light.
Arin felt his body dissolving as his consciousness was pulled into an enormous vortex far beyond his universe.
For a brief moment he saw something impossible.
His universe…
was only a tiny sphere drifting in a vast ocean of chaos.
And there were countless others.
Then everything vanished.
Arin slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing he noticed was the sky.
It was wrong.
The sky above him was perfectly flat, stretching endlessly in every direction.
Floating high above were two glowing spheres resembling the sun and the moon.
But something about them felt unnatural.
Artificial.
As if they were only projections.
Arin slowly sat up.
The land around him stretched endlessly across a vast gray plain.
Far away, massive floating islands drifted silently through the air.
The air itself felt heavy with a strange ancient energy.
The metallic cube floated beside him once again.
Its surface pulsed softly.
[Arrival confirmed.]
Arin swallowed.
"Where am I?"
The artifact answered immediately.
[Location: Chaos Void Plane.]
Arin stared at the endless horizon.
A strange excitement slowly appeared in his eyes.
His old world was gone.
Everything he once knew had disappeared.
But instead of fear…
He felt curiosity.
Endless curiosity.
Arin slowly stood up.
"If this place holds the secrets of reality…"
He looked at the floating cube.
"Then let's start learning."
The artifact glowed faintly.
[Path of Knowledge – Initiated.]
And so, in the ancient Chaos Void Plane—
A new path had begun.
A path that sought not power…
But understanding.
End of Chapter 1