Crockta was inside the darkness, but the Ashen God was not there.0

The abyss was the only thing that surrounded him.0

‘Universe,’ someone whispered.0

But Crockta couldn’t see who was whispering. He looked around, and in the profound darkness, he saw a tiny spark.0

What could it be?0

His body moved beyond time and space toward the spark.0

‘The Eternal Sun.’0

It was burning red.0

A blue planet orbiting the sun came into his sight. It was Elder Lord. The atmosphere reflected the seas and the skies, and there were also continents. Vast lands he had never seen before were spread out on the margins of the map.0

Crockta looked back at the sun.0

Inside, he found a god in slumber.0

It was through that god’s sacrifice that the sun was able to extend its lifespan. As he entered a long sleep, the sun was able to conserve energy to radiate heat for one more day.0

The face of the sleeping sun god…Crockta looked back.0

There was the vast universe. Not a speck of light was to be found. The sun of Elder Lord was the last remaining fire in this universe. He was looking at the landscape of a universe that was eternally cooling down.0

Within it, Crockta discovered the empty eye sockets of the God of Stars, a dead god.0

Time rapidly wound down.0

The world gradually cooled. The last light went out. The sun could no longer hold the planets. Elder Lord became a dead planet, deviating from its orbit.0

The universe expanded. Galaxies and stars, planets and celestial bodies drifted apart. Thus, the world headed toward eternal freezing. It sunk into an everlasting void that was without heat or energy.0

Absolute zero.0

The ‘Big Freeze.’0

It was the end of the universe.0

Crockta closed his eyes.0

This was the end that this world was eventually going to reach, and even Jung Yi-An’s own world was someday going to face the same fate.0

There was nothing there, nothing at all.0

He closed his eyes. The darkness inside his eyelids...0