Many years later.
A figure carrying "hope" followed this time and space whose cycle had been broken and appeared here.
This was a new Eternal One.
An Eternal One who, upon this timeline and within this Starry Sky Universe, had inherited "hope" and been born an unknown number of years later.
He had come here because Lord of Flowing Void's words still echoed in his mind.
"Past and future are constantly changing. Sever the past and the future, bring all variables into one. Only then are you the sole you; only then are you qualified to trace back to the origin... to gain Insight into the causes of all things and the fruits of all things."
The figure repeated those words.
He looked ahead.
He gazed straight at "Origin."
Though an unknown number of years had already passed, within this region equivalent to the end of endless time and space, that unyielding will and undying faith still echoed without cease.
Countless streams of time and space converged, collided, and rippled here, forming one timeline after another and evolving into one multiverse after another.
This was the ultimate.
This was the cause of all things, the fruit of all things.
This was...
"Origin."
The word left his lips.
At last, he understood Origin's true meaning.
He also understood why people had forgotten the true meaning of "Eternity," yet all knew of Origin, which stood above Eternity.
The "Origin" they spoke of was not a realm.
It was...
A person.
"So Origin is not fate, nor is it the beginning of everything."
As he spoke, the figure stepped beyond Origin. "The true beginning of fate is..."
The next instant, his pupils contracted violently, as though he had witnessed the most inconceivable strangeness and terror beneath heaven and earth.
Even though he had