On the throne, the instant Creation Force was complete, Green felt dazed. It was as if countless Void Eras had passed, and yet also as if only a minute had gone by.
The nearly completed Creation Force Model radiated a strange power.
Green felt his soul and will beginning to evolve toward the special Transition Layer between existence and nonexistence.
Then, in that dazed state, Green came back to himself.
The creaking of a carriage echoed beside his ears.
Green opened his eyes. The hard wooden boards, the thin layer of hay, the familiar yet strange surroundings—all of it made his will falter.
"This..."
Green abruptly threw open the carriage curtain. There were no horses, no Old Green. Apart from the carriage, everything lay in endless darkness.
Or perhaps, in this endless darkness, only he, the carriage, and the ceaseless creaking existed.
"What in the world is going on?" The moment the question rose in Green's mind,
a stream of information suddenly entered his brain.
Ninth-Level Life was different from other forms of life. The most important distinction was this:
In absolute Void, where nothing existed, even in ultimate Death, one still refused to give up that sliver of a chance to survive. An utterly unbreakable will, eternally seeking a chance at life—that was the crucial step toward transcending the limits of life and moving beyond them.
This was also an unavoidable stage in the birth of a conventional Ninth-Level Life.
At the end of a Void Era, when time vanished completely, every Half-Ninth-Level Life entered this state.
They returned to the most critical moment of their own lives, then continued endlessly, over and over.
If a Half-Ninth-Level Life endured the boundless loneliness and Death at this eternal juncture, and used an absolutely unbreakable will to nurture an everlasting spark