Newborn: "How… how do you possess that Creed?!"
"Do you think you're the only one with that Creed?"
Newborn: "That's not possible! All the information I got from the Arbiter never mentioned you having two Creeds— let alone mine! This isn't possible!"
Suddenly—the Newborn raised its authority over its Creed temporarily—something that should have taken time to accomplish, done purely by willpower and raw rage.
The void near me began to act strangely.
Then—the stars and singularities near me collapsed, releasing energy at an impossible rate.
Stars that should have burned for billions of years began to exhaust their fuel in mere moments.Black holes, instead of pulling in matter, began ejecting their mass outward in colossal bursts of radiation.Entire galaxies, once bound by gravity, started expanding at speeds beyond light, as if being pushed apart by an unseen force.
The waves of energy rushed toward my event horizon, but not like the steady stream of radiation I had always consumed—
But as a chaotic, uncontrolled flood.
They threatened to tear my event horizon apart. But I couldn't falter here.
I opened my event horizon wide, wielding the will of my Creed—devouring the rushing energy and radiation as if they were nothing.
"You're nothing but a pretender, grasping at power you don't even comprehend."
Newborn: "..."
It forced its authority higher than its limits, fueled purely by rage and desperation.
The celestial bodies that exploded far from me began to collapse a little closer.It was raising its level forcefully, and the range of my Creed was shrinking.
But I was not disappointed.I was not dismayed.I had not lost hope.
Because--This is what I wanted!
"That Creed… along with the level of authority given to you…all of it is wasted!"
It raised its authority even further.
Now, the celestial bodies that had collapsed thousands of light-years away began to crumble just a few hundred light-years away.
It was forcing space itself to accelerate toward me.
But still, it wasn't enough.
"Still not enough? How 'bout I show you how it's done?"
I pulled a small amount of World Creed from my secondary core—just enough for it to notice.
Its eyes flared.
Newborn: "YOU DARE…!!!"
Suddenly—the entire universe trembled as if its very lifeline had been severed.
The abyss flashed with blinding light—and at its center… stood the Newborn.
Then—darkness.
But in an instant, the light from the Newborn ignited again— brighter than a billion stars.
It was blinding. It illuminated the entire universe. And then—it started flickering.
The Newborn halted.
Completely still.
It glanced at its own form—its non-physical, ever-shifting body… flickering uncontrollably.
It rushed across space—erratic, unstable.
Stars and celestial bodies millions of light-years away vaporized in its wake.
Newborn: "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!"
It had tried to surpass its own authority.
It attempted to wield power beyond its insight—a level of authority that should have taken it millions, even billions, of years to master.
It tried to bypass that process…
By pure rage.
But the Creed rejected it.
And it retaliated.
The Newborn's own Creed turned against it—destroying it from within.
"This… is what I was waiting for."
Newborn: "Waiting for?!"
It couldn't understand.
Until it felt it.
Its Creed was leaving it. It was losing its form. It was dissolving—completely, irreversibly.
For something younger than even an infant in universal terms—it was about to vanish before it even lived.
And with it…
The greatest threat to my existence was finally crumbling.
The System had poured everything into this being.
And now that it was falling, the System itself would be left in shambles.
No counterattack.
No retaliation.
A being that could have erased me in an instant—had it reached even half of its power—was now fading into oblivion.
And something that had been looming over me like inevitable death—since the very moment I was born as this Singularity—
Was finally gone.
For the first time since my existence began—
The System had lost something so big it could nver replace.
And now, it would take an eternity to recover.
There would be no counterattack.
No retribution.
No immediate retaliation.
The System had been crippled.
A being that would have erased me in an instant—had it even reached half of its power—
Had fallen!
I couldn't believe it.
By the time the System even begins to recover this power— I would be unstoppable.
The weight of it all crashed down on me.
And then—
A sound escaped me.
A sound I hadn't made in what felt like eons.
"Bahahahahaha!!!"
I laughed.
A deep, raw, hysterical laughter that shook the dying universe around me.
It was pure, unfiltered madness.
I had won.
I had survived.
I had devoured what should have been my end.
For the first time, I had done more than exist.
I had conquered.
But then—
Newborn's eyes blazed one final time.
Newborn: "You may have defeated me… but I won't let you escape either!"
It unleashed everything.
Every last bit of its authority.
The entire universe shook.
Reality itself convulsed, as if something had torn through its core.
I couldn't understand it.
The Newborn was gone—reverted back to nothingness.
But what had it done?
The Universe trembled violently.
Then—I felt it.
The laws of the universe had been rewritten.
The space-time curvature had been reversed.
The universe was no longer bound by gravity.
Instead of pulling things inward… mass now repelled.
Everything was being pushed outward.
And because of that—
The entire cosmic structure was collapsing.
Planets and moons, no longer held in orbit, were violently launched into the abyss. Galaxies, instead of clustering, were forced apart—stretching the void infinitely. Even black holes, the universe's final traps of matter, were ejecting everything they had ever consumed, becoming unstable singularities of pure repulsion.
The fabric of space wasn't just stretching.
It was pushing itself apart at every point.
Reality had become inverted.
The forces of repulsion were growing stronger.
And I—
I could feel it—
My own event horizon was being torn apart.
Newborn had done something far worse than it realized.
It had removed the very principle that bound the universe together.
The Universe itself was ripping apart.
And I had to do something…
But I didn't know what!