The Khodex hit the surface of Galbar with the full force of Misri’s anger behind it. The moment that it made contact with the Rakshasaraja’s saliva, a pillar of grape-coloured arcane flame erupted from all around it and nearly tore the planet in half, ripping a hole in the Veil Between Spaces. Out of that hole an unimaginably dense cloud of smoke, not unlike Misri’s, soon started to push into the Void about Galbar.
Things crawled inside of that smoke. Every God and Goddess alive felt those things, they felt the uncomfortable scratching of claws against still-living vertebrae, and recoiled.
The smoke invaded their unborn world, unseen hands pushing against the arcane flame of the Khodex and spreading their dark world further and further, threatening to swallow everything whole.
Then the smoke touched Galbar and swallowed the Khodex – Or so it seemed, until a shockwave pushed it back. The shockwave brought with it scorching heat, uncomfortable even to the Gods themselves, and then that shockwave retracted and was re-absorbed, only for the Khodex to glow and crackle as if it was a nascent fire.
And then everything exploded.
An infinite amount of matter–and the physical laws themselves–spilled out into the Great Void – The force so extreme that the otherworldly smoke was all but erased as it was pushed outside of the Universe itself.
The Gods didn’t just see the physical aspects of creation, though. They saw a glimpse of the uncountable timelines, fates, and souls to come, they saw blurry memories of things that had yet to happen and most of all, they felt power flood their very beings.
The Big Bang felt like a split second and an eternity at the same time – a direct result of even the Gods’ minds being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information they witnessed, and by the time things settled down enough, they realised they were no longer floating in a total void, they were floating in Ir-Vaeri’s space, with the warm rays of the golden sun’s light shining down upon their backs as they stared down at what had once been a completely barren Galbar. Now, the crater formed from the Khodex’s crash was filled with a sparkling, crystalline ocean with several landmasses peeking out from under the water and massive canyons leading the way out of the crater with gentle slopes.
The entire planet was shrouded in a never-ending sandstorm, all of it with the exception of the Land of Origins, which was protected by the Khodex’s aura.
The Gods didn’t have long to admire the view however, as they soon felt themselves being pulled down and towards the Khodex. It took no more than a second for all the Gods to crash down onto one of the islands within the Land of Origins, and it took no longer than half that time for them to realise the Codex had encased itself in a jet black, glossy cocoon, suspended in the air as if by an unseen thread.
Somehow, they knew there would be no more activity from it, and that they were now free to make this virgin world truly theirs.
The Big Bang has happened! Welcome to an Universe filled with countless stars and planets.
Everyone has received a gift of 10MP from the Khodex of Creation, please use them wisely.
Now go and create to your hearts’ content, and try not to get murked two secs into your new godly life!
He was one and yet he was many. He had no arms but he held all there was within himself. It was a strange existence, and he had no idea when exactly he had figured out that he could think and feel, but try as he might he could not bring himself to separate from the others. He was stuck… Or maybe it was him that was holding the others back.
That is, until It happened.
Searing pain enveloped him. It burned him and everything around him, all that he could touch shivered and shied away. Had he a mouth, he would’ve screamed and cried out in pain. Then there was a shockwave.
All That Wasn’t reeled and shattered into a billion trillion pieces and the fabric of the emptiness he had come to call home tore, and through those tears leaked in a divine and primordial energy.
“Come.”
Before, he had believed himself to be a shapeless pool. Now, it felt like his true body was stuck in that pool, a pool of mud that wanted to drag him to its depths and devour him. He swam with all his might until he broke through the surface, and then there he was.
From what he could tell, half his body was still in the pool, but he was oh so very tired from his effort and now that he wasn’t being pulled down anymore, he didn’t see much reason to exert himself. Sloth took a deep breath of…
Nothing?
There was nothing.
No air, no light, no sky, no space, no time.
There was nothing, and yet there was something. At the centre of all emptiness hovered a single entity that took on the form of a scroll. It called to him, ordering him to fill it with power. He was tired and he really didn’t feel like doing anything, but his will eroded the longer he stared at the Khodex. In the end, he groaned and did as he was asked. He focused and released the energy he’d just been empowered by, allowing the scroll to absorb it all. It pulsed.
The scroll, which he instinctively knew was the Khodex of Creation, then hummed and exploded with light. The sound was deafening, and the shockwave immediately reached every corner of the Great Void.
“COME.”
The Khodex was calling for more. It was forcing them out of their tiny hiding spots, dragging them from other worlds, and carelessly forcing the birth of new stewards like him. There’d be more, many more, and Sloth felt them stirring. It is what it is, he thought, and then went to sleep as he floated in the Void.
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