KABOOOOOOOM────!!!
A fist condensed with the power of chaos struck the pitch-black wall.
Space vibrated and fragments of nothingness scattered, but this prison confining me didn't sustain even a single scratch.
"Dammit!"
My roar, filled with futile rage, scattered into the endless void.
Just how solid is this seal? Even pouring out all the power I used to rampage against the leaders of the Three Factions didn't make a dent.
Ah, come to think of it, in the original story, the God of the Bible sealed the Beast of the Apocalypse, Trihexa.
It's a seal placed personally by the guy who locked away a monster treated as an equal to the Dragon Gods.
It would be impossible for me, who is far weaker than the Dragon Gods, to break this on my own.
"How many years do I have to rot in here?"
I boldly declared I would return, but the reality is a gutter.
Even if I want to leave, I can't.
Crunch—! Crack—! Snap—!
The massive dragon form twisted grotesquely and gradually shrank.
With the gruesome sound of bones and muscles reconstructing, I returned to my original human form.
My naked body floated all alone in this endless void.
Right.
Let's train.
There is currently no way to escape this seal.
Then training is the only option.
Until now, I just devoured indiscriminately.
I gained absurd knowledge and experience by absorbing countless souls, but they were tangled and disorganized inside me.
Like a library where hundreds of books were shoved in randomly, I couldn't even use them properly when needed.
In fact, it was so complex and vast that I had shoved most of it into a corner of my memory.
Good.
I will use this opportunity to organize everything.
I will weave the hundreds, thousands of strands of power into one massive, sturdy rope.
Once this work is done, I will surely be incomparably stronger than I am now.
"Shall we begin?"
I sat cross-legged in the endless void and closed my eyes.
The library inside me.
The method of utilizing Light Power left by the three Fallen Angels.
Through their memories, I perfected the light spear I had only clumsily mimicked, and further researched ways to modify it in my own style.
After that, the second, the third... I organized them endlessly.
Time passed.
No, since this is a space where the concept of time doesn't exist, I couldn't tell how much had passed.
I understood Demonic Power through the memories of countless Devils.
From Baal's Power of Destruction, Belial's Worthlessness, Sabnock's shadow manipulation, to the intrinsic abilities of countless other Devils.
I made everything my own.
I realized the essence of Light Power through the memories of Angels and Fallen Angels, and mastered the method of fusing Holy Power and Demonic Power without conflict.
To be precise, rather than mastering it, should I say it just suddenly worked one day?
God and Lucifer must have died outside.
I wanted to take revenge myself, but I guess it can't be helped.
Had thousands of years passed?
Or tens of thousands?
The time axis in the Dimensional Gap is strange, so I don't know how many years have passed in the original world.
Maybe the timeline of the original story has already long passed.
An ordinary human would have gone mad long ago in this endless solitude and silence.
But I was already something that had transcended humanity.
Rather, this perfect silence provided me with the best training environment.
By the time even the sense of boredom had dulled, all the powers within me were finally integrated into a single massive flow.
Chaos did not disappear.
Rather, it became a more perfect chaos.
Not energy that simply rampaged like before, but power I could control perfectly according to my will.
This is it.
With the me of now, I might be able to at least make a crack in this seal.
Just as I finished organizing everything and was about to challenge the seal once more.
Suddenly, a foreign sound was heard within the inner silence.
Crack—.
"...Hm?"
I opened my eyes.
The pitch-black wall of the seal blocking my way.
In the center of that sturdy wall, there was a crack thinner than a hair.
Did I see something wrong?
Cra-a-ack— Cr-r-rack—.
The crack wasn't a momentary illusion.
It spread across the entire wall like a spiderweb in an instant.
SHATTERRRRRRR────!!!
Eventually, the seal that had imprisoned me for a time I couldn't measure—whether thousands or tens of thousands of years—shattered futilely like an old window pane.
Beyond the fragments of the seal, I could see the infinitely stretching Dimensional Gap.
Dumbfounded, I muttered.
"...What the hell? Just like that?"