Side story: The Primordial Universe, the Nihility Sea of Light, the beginning of the variable!

Rumble-

Chaos twisted, light and shadow intertwined.

This universe stretched beyond sight, its air filled with an indescribable sorrow and the stench of blood.

Fragments resembling both flesh and continents drifted aimlessly through this shattered universe.

These masses of flesh blotted out the sky and sun. The smaller ones rivaled stars, while the larger torsos resembled continents of cosmic starfields with no end in sight.

The blood flowing from their bodies became the rivers and vast oceans of worlds.

Their torsos represented different planar worlds.

The shattered remnants of their seas of consciousness shrouded the broken starfield continents like a layer of churning mist.

What left one stunned, scalp prickling, was this.

Corpse-like cosmic starfield continents lay one after another throughout this region, seemingly without end.

The enormous immortal palaces and divine temples formed from their heads had shattered, strewn across the void.

The eyes that seemed to represent the core of an entire universe had become hollow and deathly still, yet seemed to retain the unwillingness and terror of their final moments.

There was none of the prosperity born of different worlds, systems, and civilizations gathering together.

This region held nothing but graveyard-like silence and emptiness.

Crunch-

Crunch-

Faintly.

From deep within these broken worlds came waves of chewing sounds that made one's hair stand on end.

Twisted strange creatures with countless tentacles, utterly unlike humans, either chased the aimlessly drifting corpses to gnaw on them or simply sprawled atop corpses like starfield continents and feasted.

They ate greedily without pause, seemingly never knowing satisfaction.

As they continued eating.

Their bodies began to roil like magma, releasing wisps of black mist from deep within holes resembling air vents or some special organs.

These wisps of black mist carried a cold, eerie aura, making the already desolate, deathly universe even