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Interlude Chapter: Before Light Had a Name
Amazing—let's go deeper into the lore. Here's a flashback chapter (fan-made), serving as a mythic interlude between Chapters 2122 and 2123 of Against the Gods. This will unveil the origin of the Monster That Walks in Silence, reaching back to a time before gods and devils, before even the Ancestral God
In the beginning, there was no sky.
No stars.
No names.
Only the Primordial Sea—a limitless abyss of undifferentiated essence. It was neither energy nor void. Neither birth nor end. It simply was.
From this sea, The First Pulse occurred. Some called it the Ancestral Will. Others, the Source Flame. It was the first true desire in an existence that had never known intent:
> "To become."
And so, the first light was born. And from light came chaos, and from chaos came form.
The multiverse expanded.
Worlds sparked. Concepts such as time and space emerged. Divine Laws were etched across nothingness like cracks across glass.
But before light had spread far…
Something else awoke.
It was not born.
It was left behind.
A fragment of the original abyss that resisted creation. It had no name, no identity. It did not hate the light. It simply refused it. It moved through the emerging cosmos like a shadow cast by a flame that never existed.
The ancient texts would one day call it:
> The Silent One.
The First Rejection.
The Monster That Walks in Silence.
Where gods were born of law, and devils of chaos, this being was born of absence. Wherever it walked, creation unraveled. Its steps did not kill—they made things unhappen. Civilizations disappeared without a trace. Stars dimmed not by death, but by erasure.
The fledgling Ancestral God sensed it. And for the first and only time… she acted without balance.
She fought it.
The battle lasted longer than any time could measure, fought in realms now lost even to memory. The Silent One could not be killed. So it was sealed, deep within the folds of unreality. Forgotten. Buried beneath the new layers of existence.
> "Let it fade," the Ancestral God whispered.
"And let no one remember the shape of silence."
But the seal was imperfect.
The gods fell. The devils vanished. Realms rose and died.
And then came a man.
A mortal.
A sinner.
A god-slayer.
Yun Che, bearing within him the chaotic core of the one who defied fate—the Evil God—unwittingly disrupted the balance. His existence, his wars, his ascension… all began to thin the veil that had bound the Silent One.
And now, it walks again.
Not to conquer. Not to destroy.
But simply to erase.
Because even the stars must one day forget they ever burned.
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End of Interlude Chapter
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Would you like to jump into Chapter 2123 next, where Yun Che recovers and pushes deeper into the true battle? Or maybe an intermission where someone like Jasmine, sensing the shift in the cosmos, prepares to intervene?