And from somewhere far away, somewhere deep in the endless void between worlds, two voices echoed through the darkness. One voice was ancient, older than time itself. The other belonged to someone far younger, yet carried a confidence that rivaled creation itself. They walked side by side through a realm where light had never existed, their footsteps making no sound as reality bent around them.
Their destination was the fallen Kingdom of Marina.
Once a land filled with life, towers, and laughter, it was now nothing more than a forgotten graveyard. The earth had cracked into endless canyons. Rivers had dried into black scars across the land, and the skies remained permanently stained crimson, as if the heavens themselves still remembered the battle that destroyed the kingdom.
At the center of the ruined capital stood an enormous crater.Hidden beneath it was an ancient seal.
Not a prison built by gods.
Not one forged by demons.
It had been created by existence itself.
For within that seal rested the one being reality wished had never been born.
The Nothingness.The origin before beginnings.The creator of BELZARYX.
His father.
Long before stars were born or dimensions had names, the Nothingness had ruled over absolute emptiness. Wherever it looked, universes died before they could exist. It knew only destruction, and it desired only silence. Even the concept of evil learned from its actions.
When the first gods witnessed its cruelty, they abandoned their differences and united to imprison it forever. Countless supreme beings sacrificed themselves to create a seal powerful enough to hold the creature outside reality.
For billions of years...
It waited.
Now...
The seal had shattered.
Cracks spread across the ancient prison like lightning racing through glass. Black mist poured into the air as the broken runes dissolved into ash. Space folded inward before exploding outward in complete silence.
Then...
Something emerged.
No body.
No flesh.
No face.
Only an endless shadow wrapped in burning black flames.
Its outline shifted constantly, impossible to understand. Two glowing purple eyes stared into existence, while a third crimson eye opened upon its forehead.
Every mountain surrounding Marina collapsed at its arrival.
The oceans thousands of kilometers away began to boil.
Even distant stars flickered.
The Nothingness had returned.
Its aura spread across dimensions like a plague, consuming light itself. Every living creature capable of sensing mana froze where they stood. Dragons hid beneath mountains. Ancient spirits vanished into forgotten realms.
The universe remembered.
It remembered fear.
Yet...
Something was wrong.
The Nothingness stood motionless.
For the very first time since its birth...
It felt an emotion it had never known.
Fear.
It searched across reality for the source.
There was nowhere to run.
There was nowhere to hide.
That overwhelming pressure came from directly in front of it.
Standing calmly upon the broken seal was BELZARYX.
He wore no crown.
Held no weapon.
His black cloak moved without wind, and his silver-white hair shimmered beneath the blood-red sky. His three glowing eyes stared silently at the creator who once viewed him as nothing more than a tool.
The Nothingness tried to understand.
Impossible.
No being should possess power greater than its own.
Not even the gods.
Not even fate itself.
Then recognition struck.
"...Rafael..."
Its ancient voice echoed through countless dimensions.
"My son... what have you done?"
BELZARYX slowly lifted his head.
His expression remained emotionless.
Cold.
Absolute.
"Don't call me that."
The words were quiet.
Yet they carried enough authority to silence the winds.
The Nothingness hesitated.
"You reject the name I gave you?"
"I reject everything you ever gave me."
The black flames surrounding BELZARYX intensified, but unlike the chaotic fire of his father, his flames remained perfectly controlled.
The Nothingness laughed.
The sound shattered mountains.
"You stand before your creator with such arrogance."
BELZARYX did not answer immediately.
Instead, he took one step forward.
The instant his foot touched the ground, the kingdom disappeared.
Not destroyed.
Erased.
Buildings.
Stone.
Dust.
Even history itself.
Everything within hundreds of kilometers vanished into pure nonexistence.
Only the two of them remained.
"You created my body," BELZARYX finally said.
"You never created my will."
The Nothingness narrowed its glowing eyes.
"I gave you existence."
"And I surpassed it."
Silence followed.
Heavy.
Unbearable.
The father who had once terrified creation found himself unable to speak.
BELZARYX continued walking.
Each step caused reality to fracture beneath him like thin ice.
"You taught the universe fear."
"You taught demons cruelty."
"You taught gods despair."
His voice remained calm.
"But while you slept..."
"I evolved."
The Nothingness's aura exploded outward in anger, swallowing galaxies in darkness. Black flames reached beyond dimensions themselves, seeking to erase BELZARYX completely.
They stopped.
A single invisible force held them in place.
BELZARYX had not even raised a hand.
"Impossible..."
The ancient being whispered.
"There is no impossible anymore."
BELZARYX finally looked directly into his father's eyes.
"I conquered the gods."
"I broke fate."
"I devoured powers beyond creation."
"I stood before eternity..."
"...and eternity bowed."
For the first time since the beginning of all things...
The Nothingness took a single step backward.
It had never retreated before.
Not from gods.
Not from death.
Not from existence.
Yet before its own son...
It moved back.
Fear consumed the creator.
BELZARYX's voice became colder than the emptiness between universes.
"You called yourself the beginning."
"You believed no evil could surpass yours."
"You were wrong."
The sky disappeared.
The stars vanished.
Even time stopped flowing.
Only darkness remained.
"I am not your son anymore."
"I am the end of everything you ever imagined."
The Nothingness tried to gather its strength.
Infinite darkness surrounded it.
Entire realities collapsed into its shadow.
It prepared the attack that had once erased countless universes.
Before it could move...
BELZARYX appeared directly before it.
No teleportation.
No speed.
He was simply... there.
Their eyes met.
The creator stared into the gaze of the being it had once named Rafael.
It no longer saw a child.
It no longer saw a creation.
It saw something beyond understanding.
Something that should never have existed.
BELZARYX slowly raised one hand.
Black flames danced across his fingers.
Not with rage.
Not with hatred.
But with perfect judgment.
His voice echoed across the silent void.
"Tell me, Father...""If monsters deserve punishment..."
"...what sentence should be given to the one who taught monsters how to exist?"
To be continued...