The Void showed Damien and the Dark God a story that nobody else knew. It was a story that was never told to the world because its main character wanted it that way.
Still, when these two people pleaded so earnestly, the Void had no choice.
For these two people especially, it was important to see.
It started in the Sacred Abyss. It started when the Worldwalker returned to that world and saw it covered in ntos of his brother.
No, it started when he saw his brother tearing down the singular statue of him that existed in that world. At that mont, as he saw the raw emotion in his brother's eyes and actions, as he witnessed sothing so powerfully deep for the first ti, he first took notice of it.
Still, it was at a far later ti when that note beca a true interest and curiosity.
What the Worldwalker witnessed more than anything else during his travels was "emotion."
This thing called "connection," the "relationships" between people. It was entirely new to him when he first saw the world from the grand perspective of an Absolute.
He rembered the relationships he once had, and he rembered the relationships that could have been ford if it weren't for his detachnt from all things.
He had never been curious about it before. As he was still learning himself, he didn't take the ti to consider the things that were set in stone. He rely accepted that he was the way he was.
Frankly, he only accepted the value of emotion in his later years. It was the only thing that could be felt by all living beings. No matter what cosmos they ca from or what culture they practiced, all people and things had emotion.
Such a thing could only be possible if the concept of emotion was sothing the Void took interest in. It was from there that he gained his curiosity, and it was in that mont when he decided to try and find it for himself.
As the Worldwalker wandered the Void, he started interacting with people. Those interactions were slight most of the ti because people couldn't help but view him as a God, but he did gain so insight from them.
The feelings that others held towards him gave him a relatively negative view of the concept. He wondered why the Void cared about them so much when they were so useless.
Wouldn't his path have beco more difficult if he entertained emotions?
Perhaps the Void realized its mistake.
When he was born, the Worldwalker also had sothing like the Void Physique. Only, it was an unrefined version. His physique did not have any restrictions. Unlike Damien's physique which existed separately and only ca closer to him through ti and effort, his physique gave him everything without conditions.
He was imdiately connected to the Void, and that was what ruined him.
His entire being beca void. His personality disappeared and he beca a mindless entity who only strove for the Void. He could not experience life because his fate was that of a puppet.
The Void was not seeking this kind of person as its companion. It understood that it made a mistake. It could not change what happened to the Worldwalker, but it gave him a chance.
The Void was not an entity, but a concept. It was a concept that had sentience because without it, sentience could not be born as a concept at all.
The past, present, and future were all its children, and it could see the flow of events that could be brought into existence by its decisions. Still, it gave him a chance. At this point in ti, the Worldwalker was experiencing his first emotion, boredom.
The sheer emptiness of his existence finally caught up to him. He decided that it was ti for his life to end. He went down to the True Void, and that was the true start of the story Damien and the Dark God were witnessing.
As he gave up on his desire to be Absolute, the Worldwalker beca a being that the Void could once again influence. Its code of conduct was similar to what Damien practiced. Fate was not sothing to be ddled with, because it would be too much to change everything to create a personal utopia.
The role of an Absolute was to watch over the worlds and help them maintain their existence. The paths of each individual were guided by their thoughts, actions, and circumstances.
The Void did not give the Worldwalker emotions. It rely planted a seed in him, a seed that he was made aware of. As long as he fed that seed his desire, it would give him access to the things he lacked.
He didn't imdiately take it.
For hundreds of years, the Worldwalker lived in the Heavenly World and beca one with its people. He inhabited a lonely mountain but was known by the people in nearby towns and cities as a great immortal who lived in seclusion.
They were unfamiliar with the concept of training and didn't understand his true position. rely, because he never aged, because he was always there, he beca a being that they respected and loved.
It was a strange feeling.
They saw him as a God but they did not treat him as one. Rather, they treated him as a mber of their community.
They concerned themselves with his health and well-being, and as their attitudes were replicated by their future generations, they created a crack in his heart.
The man who never knew emotion finally decided that in this period at the end of his life, he at least wanted to know what they were like from the perspective of everyone else.
All the while, the Worldwalker's strength faded. He started to age like a normal person, and his lifestyle beca more like a mortal.
For that experience, he fed the seed the Void gifted him.
Emotions slowly started to sprout in him. Happiness filled his lonely world with color, and soon enough, it was joined by all of the good and bad emotions in existence.
All the while, the Worldwalker's strength faded. He started to age like a normal person, and his lifestyle beca more like a mortal.
And, in the midst of that process, he t a woman.
It was a bit of a cliche, but it happened to the Worldwalker as well. He t a woman who showed him what love was, and with her, he spent his final days. Love, a concept he'd ignored for his entire life, suddenly struck him like a train. He married that woman. He made a family with her and joyously experienced fatherhood.
However, her life was eventually threatened. The empires of the world finally started to covet this area, and as bloodshed beca common, he was forced to make a decision.
In his current state, the power of an Absolute in his body was difficult to reach. If he wanted to accept it again, then he would not be an Absolute. He would beco one with the Void and his existence as an individual would disappear. It was an easy choice for him back then, and it was an easy choice for him now.
The only difference was that before he went to the True Void, he would have easily disappeared for self-preservation. He would not have used his power for anyone else's sake.
Now, the easy direction was in the opposite direction. Now, after no more than a few decades with his wife and family, he understood why emotion was so valuable.
Because of emotion, he was even willing to do sothing like this without hesitation.
The Worldwalker disappeared at that ti. He was never seen again, but he took with him the wars plaguing the region. Nobody understood where the sudden peace ca from except for a single woman.
He sacrificed himself for her sake. His life ended that way.
But his wife survived, as did their children.
That was the start of the lineage.
The lineage that would later co to be known as "Void."
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