The chaotic void looked like a bizarre, dazzling world of colors, changing constantly like a kaleidoscope.
Within that dazzling starlight lay a cloud of shadow, lurking like mist amid the shadows of countless stars, as though it had blended into the background of the chaotic void, making anything unusual difficult to detect.
Tendrils spread continuously, infiltrating numerous worlds, endlessly replicating, extracting, and devouring the worlds' nutrients.
In some worlds, this happened secretly, without attracting notice, while in others, the devouring had already begun.
Recently, however, the shadow's primary target had been a robust world ahead. This world was powerful, and ordinarily, it was beyond what a being of its level could invade or covet.
But that world had given birth to a native deity with authority similar to its own, who had already begun making contact with it-
"Heh heh, with his understanding of the chaotic void, he never noticed the problem with the coordinate parameters I gave him. Every arrival actually takes him a little farther from his world, and each time, my influence over him grows a little deeper-"
The Shadow King lurked in the shadows like a hunter watching its prey, numerous cold and cruel thoughts stirring deep within its will.
Since they shared the same origin, that invisible influence was almost impossible to detect. Once the timing was right, it could refine the deity into an avatar of itself and implant it in that delicious world.
Once it merged into one of the world's underlying rules, that world would sooner or later fall into its grasp, unable to escape the shadows' reach!
"Hmm? Back again? Heh heh, as long as you still want to learn, I'll give you whatever you want to learn-"
Sensing that familiar presence approach, a trace of cruelty also surfaced within the