Prologue

Light—endless light—shone brilliantly. Time seemed to have lost all meaning here. No one knew how long this sea of light had existed, stretching in every direction like a vast, boundless ocean. From time to time, waves of light surged across its surface, their motion seeming to play a joyous symphony.

After an unknown span of time, a new power appeared beneath the sea of light. As the light decayed and weakened, it left behind cold, empty hollows. Hidden where the light could not reach, they slowly nurtured a power of their own. As the sea of light expanded, this power spread with it.

This power gradually grew alongside the spread of light. Little by little, it was no longer satisfied with all it possessed. It became hungry, greedy. This dark power, capable of twisting all things and as greedy as the most avaricious vampire, finally bared its fangs at the very moment the light reached its peak.

Darkness—or, as it preferred to call itself by its new name: the Void—had finally declared war on the source of its birth.

The powers of light and the Void stood opposed to one another, yet they complemented each other and could not be separated. Their collision ultimately unleashed a violent, catastrophic explosion. In an instant, all manner of forces crisscrossed and flew through the air, crashing against each other. The force of the explosion cleared out a region, and after the clash of light and darkness, both were cast beyond the boundaries of this realm.

At that moment, an entirely new material universe was born.

The residual energy produced by the collision of light and the Void continuously passed through this newborn universe. All kinds of matter merged and revolved as energy gathered, forming countless primitive worlds. After being tempered by the long river of time, this universe—the Dark Void—continued to expand.

With the explosion of light and the Void, stable energy and matter merged to form the earliest Dark Void. Correspondingly, the excessively violent and unstable energies gradually gathered as well, forming an entirely new plane: the Twisting Nether. After the Twisting Nether came into being, the light and darkness that could not enter the new realm clashed even more fiercely along its borders, making this already unstable plane even more chaotic. Though the Twisting Nether and the Dark Void were not connected, the collision of light and darkness occasionally allowed the chaotic, disordered energies within the Twisting Nether to break through the boundaries and enter the Dark Void, where they began to influence and twist the creations of reality.

This was the origin of this universe.