The Void showed Damien and the Dark God a story that nobody else knew. It was a story that was never told to the world because its main character wanted it that way.
Still, when these two people pleaded so earnestly, the Void had no choice.
For these two people especially, it was important to see.
It started in the Sacred Abyss. It started when the Worldwalker returned to that world and saw it covered in mementos of his brother.
No, it started when he saw his brother tearing down the singular statue of him that existed in that world.
At that moment, as he saw the raw emotion in his brother's eyes and actions, as he witnessed something so powerfully deep for the first time, he first took notice of it.
Still, it was at a far later time when that note became a true interest and curiosity.
What the Worldwalker witnessed more than anything else during his travels was "emotion."
This thing called "connection," the "relationships" between people. It was entirely new to him when he first saw the world from the grand perspective of an Absolute.
He remembered the relationships he once had, and he remembered the relationships that could have been formed if it weren't for his detachment from all things.
He had never been curious about it before. As he was still learning himself, he didn't take the time to consider the things that were set in stone. He merely accepted that he was the way he was.
Frankly, he only accepted the value of emotion in his later years. It was the only thing that could be felt by all living beings. No matter what cosmos they came from or what culture they practiced, all people and things had emotion.
Such a thing could only be possible if the concept of emotion was something the Void took interest in. It was from there that he gained his curiosity, and it was in that moment when he decided to try and find it for himself.
As the Worldwalker wandered the Void, he started interacting with people. Those interactions were slight most of the time because people couldn't help but view him as a God, but he did gain some insight from them.
The feelings that others held towards him gave him a relatively negative view of the concept. He wondered why the Void cared about them so much when they were so useless.
Wouldn't his path have become more difficult if he entertained emotions?
Perhaps the Void realized its mistake.
When he was born, the Worldwalker also had something like the Void Physique. Only, it was an unrefined version.
His physique did not have any restrictions. Unlike Damien's physique which existed separately and only came closer to him through time and effort, his physique gave him everything without conditions.
He was immediately connected to the Void, and that was what ruined him.
His entire being became void. His personality disappeared and he became a mindless entity who only strove for the Void. He could not experience life because his fate was that of a puppet.
The Void was not seeking this kind of person as its companion. It understood that it made a mistake. It could not change what happened to the Worldwalker, but it gave him a chance.
The Void was not an entity, but a concept. It was a concept that had sentience because without it, sentience could not be born as a concept at all.
The past, present, and future were all its children, and it could see the flow of events that could be brought into existence by its decisions.
Still, it gave him a chance.
At this point in time, the Worldwalker was experiencing his first emotion, boredom.
The sheer emptiness of his existence finally caught up to him. He decided that it was time for his life to end.
He went down to the True Void, and that was the true start of the story Damien and the Dark God were witnessing.
As he gave up on his desire to be Absolute, the Worldwalker became a being that the Void could once again influence. Its code of conduct was similar to what Damien practiced. Fate was not something to be meddled with, because it would be too much to change everything to create a personal utopia.
The role of an Absolute was to watch over the worlds and help them maintain their existence. The paths of each individual were guided by their thoughts, actions, and circumstances.
The Void did not give the Worldwalker emotions. It merely planted a seed in him, a seed that he was made aware of. As long as he fed that seed his desire, it would give him access to the things he lacked.
He didn't immediately take it.
For hundreds of years, the Worldwalker lived in the Heavenly World and became one with its people. He inhabited a lonely mountain but was known by the people in nearby towns and cities as a great immortal who lived in seclusion.
They were unfamiliar with the concept of training and didn't understand his true position. Merely, because he never aged, because he was always there, he became a being that they respected and loved.
It was a strange feeling.
They saw him as a God but they did not treat him as one. Rather, they treated him as a member of their community.
They concerned themselves with his health and well-being, and as their attitudes were replicated by their future generations, they created a crack in his heart.
The man who never knew emotion finally decided that in this period at the end of his life, he at least wanted to know what they were like from the perspective of everyone else.
For that experience, he fed the seed the Void gifted him.
Emotions slowly started to sprout in him. Happiness filled his lonely world with color, and soon enough, it was joined by all of the good and bad emotions in existence.
All the while, the Worldwalker's strength faded. He started to age like a normal person, and his lifestyle became more like a mortal.
And, in the midst of that process, he met a woman.
It was a bit of a cliche, but it happened to the Worldwalker as well. He met a woman who showed him what love was, and with her, he spent his final days.
Love, a concept he'd ignored for his entire life, suddenly struck him like a train. He married that woman. He made a family with her and joyously experienced fatherhood.
However, her life was eventually threatened. The empires of the world finally started to covet this area, and as bloodshed became common, he was forced to make a decision.
In his current state, the power of an Absolute in his body was difficult to reach. If he wanted to accept it again, then he would not be an Absolute. He would become one with the Void and his existence as an individual would disappear.
It was an easy choice for him back then, and it was an easy choice for him now.
The only difference was that before he went to the True Void, he would have easily disappeared for self-preservation. He would not have used his power for anyone else's sake.
Now, the easy direction was in the opposite direction. Now, after no more than a few decades with his wife and family, he understood why emotion was so valuable.
Because of emotion, he was even willing to do something without hesitation.
The Worldwalker disappeared at that time. He was never seen again, but he took with him the wars plaguing the region. Nobody understood where the sudden peace came from except for a single woman.
He sacrificed himself for her sake. His life ended that way.
But his wife survived, as did their children.
That was the start of the lineage.
The lineage that would later come to be known as "Void."