The Monarch-Chapter 712: Chaos
It was amusing how creating a world was something peculiar. Small things were impossible for Kayden to alter, but they were the sum of millions of them, and that ended up becoming something much greater, making many things impossible for him to change within the world.
The point was that as he altered the soul of the world, he was able to change small things, and consequently they became large things. Each alteration made him capable of shaping that world more to his liking. The soul of the world grew with each passing day.
After some time, life began to be born in that world—rational life, capable of generating thoughts and civilizations. This was only possible because Kayden allowed those souls to enter. They were handpicked; practically every living being born in that world was capable of becoming a god.
Kayden divided the world into many, many regions and placed specific laws within each of them. It did not take long for cities to begin forming. Kayden smiled as he saw his creation slowly taking shape. He made that world very large, large enough that a mortal would take decades or centuries to cross it.
The problem was that a good portion of those regions began to die little by little. Life was lacking; vegetation gradually withered, and life ceased to flourish. Not only that, but the laws themselves began to leave those places, and everything turned into a vast, lifeless desert. Kayden did not take long to understand that this was because of the soul that controlled the world.
The soul of the world was directly linked to the strength of that world. It seemed to limit the development of mortals and regions, but with each passing day, a bit more territory was brought within the capacity of that soul.
After a few years, Kayden set his world aside and returned to reality. His world would need a long time to develop; from then on, he would only make some adjustments and additions to the soul of the world.
Outside, Kayden once again absorbed the world that was recovering from the last event. This time it was even faster. He shattered everything in seconds. What had taken years to be rebuilt was completely evaporated in moments. This time, Kayden showed no mercy, and something completely insane happened.
The very fabric of space itself was absorbed by Kayden. Even the laws of time were completely absorbed by him. When the universe tried to reconstruct the environment, Kayden immediately consumed those attempts. Not even the strongest possible laws were capable of preventing Kayden from turning that universe into an immense void.
This was a true void, identical to the one he had been in with the Librarian. There was nothing. Life was impossible to flourish there; it was impossible even for souls to walk through that place. The soul of the universe was completely destroyed by Kayden. Everything was absorbed—nothing was left behind.
Space was torn as Kayden left that universe. The process was extremely simple; he only needed to rip through the void. The problem was the place where he landed... Kayden had completely miscalculated.
Kayden fell into a place where reality seemed undecided. The ground only existed when it was observed, and the sky pulsed like something alive. The compressed air delayed time and made every thought heavy, almost solid. Impossible structures floated and slowly unraveled, bound to laws that were born and died in the same instant. That world did not reject Kayden—it merely observed him, as if deciding whether it should exist.
This was the universe of chaos, an unstable and silent place where laws arose corrupted and unraveled before they could take hold. Space folded without purpose, and time flowed irregularly, sometimes advancing, sometimes dying. Nothing there sought order or meaning—everything simply happened.
There were thousands of portals to random places. There were thousands of civilizations scattered throughout that environment; some were merely ordinary mortal cities with nothing special about them. The most amusing part was that none of them were capable of sensing the universe of chaos. None of the portals were felt from the other side. There were portals to other points in space-time.
Kayden needed only a few minutes to understand where he was. He was able to feel the Law of Chaos flooding everything around him and every point within it. Not only that law, but the karmic law and the law of creation were also slightly present. It was a mixture of everything and, at the same time, of nothing.
"This is the universe of chaos, but you must have already sensed that," said a being Kayden had not seen in a long time as it appeared before him.
The cat god Hypnos was floating calmly in front of him atop a cushion, his aura calm and deep as always, his level of strength still unfathomable. Kayden had not seen that being for a very long time, practically since he had left Earth.
"Also known as the universe of Hypnos," Kayden replied as he studied the place. He had already found passages and information about it, but he did not know how to enter it.
Those who had entered were few, and those who were capable of leaving were even fewer. This universe was an enigma—first because it was practically impossible to enter freely, and second because it was extremely difficult to survive inside it. The pressure and the force of everything were ridiculous.
Moreover, it was very difficult to leave. Kayden sensed millions of portals within that universe—an almost infinite number of them—but all were deadly traps. They were incomplete portals, portals that would transport only the body and leave the soul behind, or the opposite.
There were millions of possibilities. There was also a very large number of souls wandering within that universe. All of them were trapped, drifting without any direction. It was an enormous number of souls, a completely terrifying number. In addition to that, there were strange timelines.
Kayden saw different versions of reality. He saw versions of himself at other points. There were trillions of Kaydens who had reached the same level as him. There were thousands of timelines being shown to Kayden. His mind became overloaded for millennia in that moment.
He was unable to stabilize himself. His mind was in chaos. It was too much information—too many realities being thrown at him. It was a new universe opening to his mind, literally a frog in a well.
