He drifted through this void, which could not even be called a universe.
He was the end of the cycle, his half-illusory, half-real body drifting aimlessly.
This was a world where all things had already perished.
He endured until the far side of annihilation.
And then?
There was no road ahead.
Yet the answer could be found nowhere.
Beyond him, there was only emptiness.
So he placed his thoughts within his own body. The nutrients inside gradually became fragments through collisions.
Something seemed to form a strange vibration.
That was... singing.
Once, there had been a wandering singer who had sung like this as well.
Should he sing too?
If it were that wandering singer, if it were Skadi, she surely would have begun singing before even considering such questions, wouldn't she?
"Yes. These are memories of the past."
Skadi slowly opened her eyes.
Before her was a small harp.
[Degenerate Remnant].
Skadi had originally thought she would begin as a Deep Sea Hunter and experience Skadi's life all the way until she became Skadi the Corrupting Heart.
But she had never expected to arrive in a final world after everything had already ended—a world after the "grand finale."
"If that's the case, then I seem to be somewhat different from the 'original version.' I'm more like... a traveler once more?"
She really had become "Cosmic Great Stem."
Sadly, it did not help the performance much.
This was the world after the end, the void after the universe's annihilation.
But... at least it sounded impressive.
No matter what, if people were debating power levels on forums now, she could rank among the notable ones.
Although she had only just been "born," Skadi possessed memories of the past.
Memories of Skadi as a Deep Sea Hunter.
Memories of Ismar.
Memories of