The stars were dim, the universe vast, and the grand spectacle still lingered before their eyes.
In the endless darkness, specks of starlight flickered like the eyes of countless gods silently watching this boundless universe. Life thrived within it, and innumerable living beings traveled through its expanse. Yet looking higher, even grandeur was merely another form of insignificance. Above them lay another mysterious and magnificent world.
Within the boundless greater world, every universe was a point of light. Gathered together, those points formed galaxies, floating and winding like colossal beasts, radiating mysterious waves of energy. Streams of stars that formed the laws of the world coiled among them, like a fairyland shrouded in mist.
From dust within the universe to universes like dust, from boundless worlds to the boundlessness beyond worlds, they all floated silently in the cosmos, as though awaiting some unknown Destiny.
Far away, at the end of the darkness, those enormous eyes that drifted beyond the world looked through the barrier of the greater world, through the barrier of the omnipotent universe, and found a tiny point of light amid the complex Multiverse.
It was an exceedingly special universe. It had drifted inside and outside the barrier of the greater world several times. Looking closely, many things were missing from the star streams of its universal laws, but that was good news for the owner of those eyes.
The Five Deities, who represented the universe's most fundamental laws, along with the Living Tribunal above them, had departed from this universe, leaving behind only a flourishing wilderness for anyone to take as they pleased.
A pair of enormous hands gently cradled the universe as though holding a sleeping infant. As the hands slowly parted, a phantom emerged from the bubble of that universe. In the blink of an