Kyle staggered the moment he received the reward.
A violent pulse tore through his veins, blurring his vision as the world around him dissolved
Not into darkness.
Into something deeper. A place where darkness itself had yet to exist.
There was no sky, no ground, no stars. Only endless stillness stretching in every direction.
And within that stillness…something enormous.
Kyle couldn't fully perceive it. Every attempt made agony lance through his skull, his mind instinctively rejecting the sight.
Yet despite that, he understood one terrifying truth.
That existence was someone familiar....eerily familiar.
Ancient pressure drifted through the void, timeless and boundless, carrying a loneliness so vast it made his chest ache.
Then, suddenly, a spark appeared.
Tiny and barely surviving.
The first light.
