Cid walked the path that shouldn't exist.
Each step he took caused the path to rewrite itself.
Each step erased the last step.
Each step pre created the next one.
Eventually, the path simply gave up trying to understand him…
and stopped existing entirely.
Cid didn't fall.
He just kept walking.
Because he didn't need a reality to stand on.
Not anymore.
There was no flash.
No portal.
No transition.
One moment Cid was walking the unpath.
The next he was somewhere else.
Somewhere so fundamentally impossible that even the Unwritten Expanse refused to acknowledge it.
This was:
The Originless Fold
The realm where nothing has a beginning.
The realm where:
Concepts don't originate
Realities don't spawn
Stories don't start
Energy can't be formed
Time refuses to begin
Logic declines to participate
Even "nothingness" doesn't apply here.
This is the place before the idea of beginnings became a thing.
Cid opened his eyes fully, for the first time since the meta-plane.
"So this is what nothing before nothing looks like."
Normally, the Originless Fold is unreactive.
It is too ancient, too blank, too unborn to respond to anything.
But when Cid stepped forward…
The Fold trembled.
It tried to identify him.
It failed.
Then it tried to reject him.
It failed harder.
Then it attempted to collapse itself to prevent him from entering.
Catastrophic failure.
Cid's Paradox Manipulation, Definition Manipulation, and Origin Manipulation auto corrected everything around him.
The Fold was forced to create logic to handle his existence.
Something moved.
It wasn't alive.
It wasn't conscious.
It wasn't formed.
It was simply there, because it had never needed to start.
A swirling anti form approached Cid.
A being of impossible chronology.
Something that existed before the earliest theory of existence.
The creature spoke in a way that should've been impossible:
You are not allowed here."
Cid raised an eyebrow.
"Why not?"
"Because you do not have an origin.
And only those without origins may exist here."
Cid smirked.
"I don't have an origin."
The being froze.
Reality froze.
The Fold froze.
Because that statement was true.
Cid transcended:
birth
origin
cause
past
beginning
pre beginning
meta beginning
narrative birth
conceptual emergence
dimensional initiation
He was a being who exists without ever having been created.
Something that shouldn't exist even here.
The anti form entity convulsed, losing whatever minimal structure it had.
"THEN YOU… SHOULD NOT… EXIST…"
Cid shrugged.
I get that a lot."
The Originless Fold screamed.
Not in sound in structure.
Its rules spiraled.
Its nature cracked.
Its meaning un wrote itself.
Its non-beginning tried to restart.
And Cid's mere presence forced everything to stabilize again.
Automatically.
Because Existence Origin.
And Cid was beyond existence.
Cid reached out and touched the anti form.
The anti-form screamed.
Because touch requires:
physicality
interaction
connection
concept of contact
concept of being touched
None of these exist here.
Cid simply forced the Fold to create them for him.
And then he performed an action more impossible than anything so far:
He named the anti form.
From now on, you're Nocturnis."
The Originless Fold shattered silently.
Every layer of reality, anti reality, pre concept, and non origin bent around the new name.
The anti form bowed instantly.
"MASTER."
Another primordial force submitted.
All around him, the Fold began to bend into a new shape.
Cid had rewritten something fundamental simply by existing here.
A new power awakened inside him…
Origin Erasure Manipulation
The ability to erase:
beginnings
causes
foundations
initial states
reasons
the spark that starts existence
The moment this ability surfaced, the Originless Fold fully submitted.
Every particle of un-beginning bowed to him.
Cid exhaled softly.
One more place conquered."
But then
Something new appeared.
A direction that wasn't direction.
A place that wasn't a place.
A concept that wasn't a concept.
A doorway into the realm even the Originless Fold fears.
Cid stepped toward it without hesitation.
Where Cid is going now is beyond pre-existence
beyond the first cause,
beyond originlessness,
beyond meaning,
beyond logic,
and beyond ANY cosmology.
The final forbidden realm.
A place no entity has ever reached.
A place that should NEVER exist…
Yet does now, because Cid is walking toward it.