Over the past four years, Cillian Carter had come to understand this world pretty well.
In this world, the way people viewed different domains was relatively simple. Any world that possessed sources of power like magic, internal energy, or vindictive aura was considered a Transcendent World. On the other hand, worlds built on technology or physical evolution were classified as ordinary worlds.
But that kind of classification was shallow, even foolish. Many designed worlds had massive potential, yet during the final assessment of a graduation project, they were slapped with failing grades simply because they didn't follow the standard blueprint of what the world deemed "Transcendent."
That was mostly due to the grading system. Each student's world had to pass several evaluations. Many potential-filled worlds didn't shine in the early stages,especially not in terms of defensive or combat strength,so most graduates played it safe. They tried to frontload combat power, shaping their worlds to fit a set of rigid templates and formulas.
To Cillian, that made almost everyone's Divine Domain boring and featureless.
And, more importantly, out of all the top-scoring graduation projects over the years, not a single one had a world anything like the one in his head.
Not even close.
All the Divine Domains were neatly constructed, orderly, and controlled. No graduate had ever attempted to create a massive, and chaotic world like the one Cillian had envisioned,a place that devoured peace and drowned in madness.
No one had even dared study something like the Endless Abyss..
"Wait, you're designing a Transcendent World from scratch?"
The students nearby looked stunned when they heard him.
They thought he was joking,trying to get a laugh before the serious work began. After all, nobody made jokes about graduation projects. It determined your whole future.
And building a world from scratch? That was something only top-tier prodigies dared to try.Cillian might've been smart, but in their eyes, he was nowhere near that level.
"Dude, even if you're messing around, just be careful. You should pick something safe."
"Yeah, just pick a tech world or maybe a low-magic fantasy realm. Play it smart, hit the evaluation benchmarks, and you'll graduate."
Cillian just smiled.Explaining himself would only make him seem crazier
After registering his world's name in the official registry, Cillian received his piece of world origin.
It looked like a shimmering orb, an "air mass" filled with endless streams of radiant light.
"So this is the origin of a world…" Cillian stared at the glowing orb in his hand and focused his mind.
"Alright, it's time to start. System, upload the base model of the Endless Abyss."
Cillian closed his eyes and activated his Goldfinger, the support system that had come with him when he crossed over to this world. The system had remained mostly inactive all this time because he lacked the proper materials.
But now, with his divine fire lit and the world origin in hand, its features finally unlocked.
"Uploading Abyss Model…"
A mild headache hit him as a flood of chaotic information surged into his mind. Dozens of theories, structures, and twisted world mechanics filled his thoughts.
Cillian didn't panic.
Instead, he carefully reviewed the base model for the abyss, tweaking a few things as necessary. Then, eyes still closed, he poured his thoughts into the glowing orb,the origin of his domain.
Guided by divine fire, he began fusing the orb with his spirit, establishing a secure link between himself and this new world.
"So this is the process of building a Divine Domain…"
When he opened his eyes, he stood in pure chaos.
No rules, no structure, just swirling energy and clashing elements, all unformed. Like a cauldron of boiling, meaningless power.
"Alright. Time to lay the first continent."
He focused, summoning countless unshaped elements. Under his control, they began forming land, using the world origin as fuel. The land expanded, growing wider and thicker, until it stretched for hundreds of kilometers.
Next came the rules.
"Now to shape the core laws of the world."
Cillian took a deep breath.
"In this world," he muttered, "every properly built domain has core rules, like the four force laws of science, or the inner paths of Qi cultivation. Each world forms structure by balancing multiple rules that all contribute in different ways."
"Like gears in a machine," he continued. "Different functions, but all parts of the same system."
"But the Endless Abyss is different."
"This is a world dominated by one rule,pure chaos."
He spoke aloud as he embedded the first major law into the base world: Absolute Chaos.
The second it took root, the land began to fracture.
The giant continent crumbled apart, collapsing downward—spiraling into a deeper layer of space. It fell into a low-latitude region, a harsh dimension where no normal life could survive. It twisted, reshaped itself, and kept sinking.
But Cillian didn't panic. This was how it was supposed to work.
With a calm expression, he began to build the second landmass,then a third, a fourth…
Sixty-six in total.
Each one was constructed then collapsed downward, creating a multilayered abyss that spun and cracked, shifting at random.
There was no rhythm to the changes. Land broke apart. New formations twisted together. Gravity bent sideways. Nothing followed logic.
Even the gods wouldn't be able to track how this world moved.
It was impossible to create order here. Impossible to build anything stable.
According to Grimstone standards, this kind of domain would be marked as a total failure from the very first inspection.
Still, Cillian didn't flinch.
He watched calmly as the chaos spread. He was building something different. Something none of them would understand.
As the sixty-six shattered landmasses sank together and spiraled downward, they became one vast low-latitude realm, one that looped endlessly through layers of warped dimensions.
The prototype of the Endless Abyss.
It wasn't perfect yet, but its current size already rivaled more than a dozen Earths stitched together.
And while Cillian crafted it, something-someone,was watching him from the shadows.
Eyes had already begun to observe this strange, impossible world from deep within the void.