[Earth is a desolate wasteland. There is nothing but dust, sand, and the remains of scorched buildings.]
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[There is a girl walking underneath the scorching heat of the sun. She has nothing left. no food, no water, no company. Only her tattered clothes and a long brown robe to block the sun’s heat.]
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[As the girl walked she stumbled more and more until she fell down onto the ground. She was tired of walking, tired of trying to find a safe place to go, tired of trying to survive.]
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[ nothing but sorrow and hunger filled her heart. She took one last deep breath and-]
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[Nothing… Nothing but an endless sea of ever expanding darkness, cold darkness.]
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[The girl awoke, she was confused. She surely knew that she'd died. But yet here she was, alive but in a darker place, on cold ground.]
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[The Girl]《Why am I here… How am I here?》
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[The girls heart began to race with questions. “Is this hell?” “How do I get out!”. She began to look around frantically as she tried to find an exit. But there was nothing but darkness.]
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[The girl put both of her arms onto what seemed like the ground of the void. She froze as she touched the ground, her fingertips feeling the sensation of some sort of liquid. ]
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[An overwhelming since of thirst filled her body. She instinctively put her face into what she thought was water,closed her eyes,and she began to drink.]
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[The taste was repulsive and bitter but she still consumed the liquid, her thirst was not being satiated instead she was getting more thirsty.]
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[She consumed the liquid, she consumed until there wasn't anything left. Suddenly she started to feel different, her head was spinning and her stomach was turning.]
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[The girl]《What’s happening to me!?》
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[The girl then collapsed onto the ground.]
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|Much later|
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[The girl stood back up, finally healing from that weird feeling.]
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[The girl scratched her hair, but she noticed something strange. She recoiled back in confusion, her former black hair turned into the purest white she had ever seen.She then rubbed her forehead trying to make sense of what just happened only to find out that she had grown two, black horns.
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[The Girl] 《What happened to me…》
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[The girl stood up, now even more confused about what happened to her. All she wanted to do was to find a safe place to survive. But the longer she looked around the more she realized that this place had no exit, no food, and nobody to even communicate with.]
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|Sometime later|
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[The girl is laying on the ground, rolled up in a ball. She had lost all hope of ever getting out from this place. She's both tired, and hungry.]
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[Suddenly noises started to echo throughout the realm. Vibrations awoke the girl, and as she stood up she saw something terrifying yet oddly beautiful.]
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[A person who appears to be some type of cosmic entity with long flowing nebula like hair and what seems to be galaxies swirling inside of them appeared right in front of the girl. it's arms out wide as if it was looking for a hug.]
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[The girl]《Who are you…or better yet …what are you..》
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[Oniel] 《Fret not human. My name is Oniel, I sensed your presence here and might I say it's quite…intriguing.》
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[The girl] 《So you're saying that you knew I was here… Do you know what this place even is?》
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[Oniel] 《Correct human. I can sense everything and anything. And yes, I indeed do know what this place is. But be aware mere mortals like yourself cannot fully comprehend this place.》
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[The girl] 《I don't care about any of that! Just tell me, what is this place! Why did I end up here!? And why is there absolutely nothing here!?》
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[Oniel] 《Calm down human. The full extent of this place will unravel with time. However right now I can tell you a little about this realm. 》
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[The girl] 《Then tell me… Tell me everything you know! Don't leave out a single detail!》
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[Oniel]《Very well. Allow me explain it in a way a human mind can grasp. Some call this place the Void, but that word is far too simple for what it truly is. In ordinary realms take the Dreamscape, for example things exist. They take shape, gain meaning, move through time, and follow some chain of cause and effect except for a certain few.This is not an empty place in the way a dark room is empty. It is not the absence of things. Rather, it is what exists before the possibility of a thing can even be conceived. Imagine reality as a vast structure composed of countless worldlines, endlessly branching timelines, possibilities, histories, futures, and every underlying principle that allows them to exist. Time, space, causality, matter, thought every thread that supports existence rests upon a deeper foundation. That foundation is the Void.
[Oniel chuckles a little]
《The Void stands beneath every worldline and every hidden factor that governs reality itself. Even the countless realms contained within the Gr—》
[Oniel abruptly stopped talking]
《...That explanation is unnecessary for now. What matters is this, the Void is not part of existence. It was never touched by the concepts that define worlds in the first place. Time does not flow here because time was never present. Space does not extend here because space was never born. Cause and effect cannot function here because there is nothing for them to connected with.》
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[The girl] 《W-What? All of this is just so confusing》
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[The girl rested her hand on her face, thinking about everything Oniel said. Although she wanted to believe this thing she couldn't bring herself to do so.]
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[The girl] 《 “All of this is just too much to unpack. Should I really trust this Oniel fellow? They seem helpful but my gut is telling me no”》
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[Oniel] 《You doubt me? Just to let you know, im physically unable to lie.》
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[The girl] 《YOU CAN HEAR MY THOUGHTS?!?!》
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[Oniel] 《Of course I can. It's almost like second nature for me.》
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[Oniel] 《Besides that, do you have any more questions?》
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Good catch. If Void Traces are retconned, then the explanation should stem directly from the Void's role as the foundation beneath reality rather than from some external phenomenon. I'd rewrite it like this:
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[The Girl]
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《Well... actually, I do have a question. Do you have any idea how I ended up here?》
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[Oniel]《How you arrived here? That is a far more difficult question than explaining what the Void is.》
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[Oniel] folded his arms and looked off into the endless nothingness surrounding them.
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《Normally, when a living being dies, their soul remains within the framework of reality. It follows whatever path the laws governing its existence dictate. Some souls reincarnate. Others enter an afterlife. Some are judged. The specifics differ from worldline to worldline, but the principle remains the same.The deaths stay within the confounds existence.》
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《You did not.》
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[The Girl]《...What does that mean?》
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[Oniel]《It means that when you died, something went wrong.The Void is not another realm one can simply travel to. It exists past every worldline, every timeline, every law, and every structure that makes reality function. In a sense, it is the foundation upon which all existence rests. A soul has no business arriving here.Yet somehow, yours did.》
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Onim《Whether it was chance, a flaw in reality, or something else entirely, I cannot say. What I do know is that at the moment of your death, your soul slipped free from the cycle that should have claimed it.Instead of remaining within existence, it fell beneath it.And so you arrived here.》
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[The Girl]《So... you're telling me nobody actually knows why I'm here?》
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《Correct.》
[Oniel answered without hesitation.]
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[Oniel]《I know how you arrived.I do not know why you were able to.》
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[The Girl]
《That's somehow even more terrifying than having an answer.》
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[The Girl breathed in slowly]
[The girl]《So basically I died, reality messed something up, and now I'm stranded in the foundation of existence? Yeah that's not crazy at all!》
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[Oniel] 《Anyways let's not dwell on this any longer for I have an offer for you.》
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[The girl ] 《An offer? What do you have to offer me?》
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[Oniel] 《Name the thing you want most in life. I assure you I can grant you anything you desire. Riches, Power, good fortune. There is infinite possibilities for what i can give you.》
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[The girl] 《”What I want the most in life… What do I want… I remember being exiled from my home… forced to walk endlessly in a desolate wasteland… I died because I was weak, so I'll have to become stronger…”》
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[The girl] 《What do I want from you? I want power. A power that surpasses everything! A power that I can use to reshape my world into a better place!》
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[Oniel] 《Very ambitious are you? Well if you fulfill my request I will grant you all of the power you will need.》
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[The girl walked towards Oniel, staring at them directly into their eyes.]
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[The girl] 《I suppose since I will be working with you from now on I should tell you my name.》
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[Oniel] 《I was planning on asking you about that. go ahead. 》
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[Locter] 《My name is Locter Nihilist.》
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[Oniel] 《Well then Locter, Allow me tell you more about my request.》
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and then Add to home screen.