When Raphael saw the ocean before him, seemingly filled with infinite colors, the first thing that came to mind was the Chaos Sea.
But he felt that this was, at most, the aura of the Chaos Sea. God Almighty had accommodated several sefirot back then, including the Chaos Sea and the shadow world. When those sefirot mingled inside him, perhaps some connections had formed between them.
It was also possible that God Almighty had once used the Chaos Sea to control the shadow world. Of course, this was pure speculation on Raphael's part. He felt that, with multiple sefirot inside God Almighty, they might not have been so "obedient." After all, God Almighty was only a pillar, not the Oldest One.
The solution Raphael could imagine was to use the Chaos Sea to suppress the other sefirot and make them "behave."
That process might have left some of the Chaos Sea's aura within the shadow world.
Of course, God Almighty might also have deliberately left that aura behind to provide power for his arrangements in the shadow world.
Whatever the case, without the Oldest One's protection, Raphael might have been corrupted by the Chaos Sea the moment he entered.
The film of light covering his body now made him like a rock in a stream, with the Chaos Sea's aura constantly flowing past either side of him.
Following the guidance of his spirituality, Raphael walked through the ocean of colorful mist. Suddenly, the view opened up, and he seemed to have appeared amid a field of stars. Against a backdrop of seemingly distant stars, he abruptly felt very small.
Fortunately, this was not the actual astral world. It merely held a certain symbolic significance.
Raphael continued forward. Many of those seemingly distant stars swept past on either side, giving him