Halos spun and interwove as crimson snakes bored out of the spreading darkness, ravaging the earth.
Born from the will of the planet, this Calamity God was transforming and devouring the cradle that had birthed it, burning countless lives into energy and turning Earth into a dead, silent purgatory, returning it to the primordial darkness before life had ever emerged.
Every world swept by the crimson snakes collapsed and shattered without exception.
The fragments torn from those worlds were then converted into high-purity mana and flowed toward the eight gigantic mouths stretched to their limits.
With every feeding, the force of its suction increased, and the Calamity God's body expanded another degree.
Eight savage serpent heads devoured life and dissolved all things, converting everything within range into magical energy for its feast, filling that bottomless black hole.
In the blink of an eye, rocks became flowing Black Mud, and air devolved into foul toxins;
Shimmering stars were swallowed, and brilliant galaxies were torn apart;
Gradually, there was no sound, no warmth;
Space could not be perceived, and time could not be measured;
The world sank step by step into eternal darkness.
"God said..."
A deep chant echoed across the surface of the empty, chaotic abyss.
It sounded like an old man, a noblewoman, a youth, a child, a saint, a prisoner.
Like the voice of one person, like the voices of countless people.
"...Let there be light..."
As the command was spoken, a beam of light shot into the sky, tearing through the near-eternal darkness.
Beneath that light, a slender figure walked across the abyssal surface where Black Mud flowed. Two joined tablets floated before him.
Countless runes constantly intertwined and shifted across their uneven surfaces, writing a new chapter.
The dazzling radiance and endless outpouring of divinity came from