The Primordial Void.
Here, light did not exist. Sound was a concept that had never been invented. There was only the endless, churning, suffocating weight of absolute Chaos.
Suspended in this nothingness was a single point. A speck. A seed.
It hung in the abyss, sipping at the entropy, drawing in microscopic threads of raw chaos energy.
Not enough.
It's not time to germinate yet.
I can go deeper. I can last longer.
The thoughts flickered within Orion's consciousness, a mantra against the encroaching madness. The longer he remained buried in the Void, the more primordial energy he could absorb. The more he absorbed, the stronger the foundation for his new world would be.
But it was a gamble with the highest stakes imaginable.
