Chapter 623: Birth (1/2)

I was nowhere. As philosophically as it may sound, that was the sad reality. Once the universe swallowed me back then, I was hanging in this empty void. I could even tell whether I had the body to begin with, given how there was absolutely nothing that could induce any sensory experience in it.

Stuck in this abyss of nothingness, I couldn't even conjure any of my abilities as there was no space for them to manifest in. Unable to perceive, do or accomplish anything, I was unable to even tell how long has it passed ever since I appeared in this void.

Was it a second? Did I leave the world where my wife remained just a damned second ago? Or was it ages ago? Stuck in this abyss, I had no way of telling.

It wasn't like I didn't make any attempts at returning. But nothing of what I attempted to accomplish seemed to have any effect. There was no universe around me to rip a hole in it and create a portal that would connect me back with the world. There was no space around me that could allow condensing my magic so hard that it would turn into an object I could use as a tool.

Surrounded by nothingness, I was unable to change its state either. After all, I wasn't a god.

Maybe that was the difference between me, and the being that moved me from one world to another. Or maybe that god who stole me from earth would be as powerless in this void as I was? I had no way of telling.

After all, I couldn't tell anything if there wasn't anything to talk about.

No space, no objects, no drama, no events, no matter, not even the time itself!

Humans talked in order to communicate with others. With no one else to talk to, even trying to talk to myself… Wait…

There was no time?

This sudden thought struck me like a bolt of lightning. Given how I couldn't even tell where was the last time when I felt something, instead of being perturbed by it, my entire self was thrilled with that long-forgotten sensation. Even if it steemed just from my mind alone.

The reality, or rather its lack, dangerously close resembled the legend of what awaited humans after their demise of one of the major religions. Stuck in the abyss, they would remain there for as long as their very sense of self would deteriorate completely, decaying away.

But that forced my mind to keep working at its utmost rate. After all, I wasn't that eager to die in the first place. Not before I would find a way to return to Eve, witness the birth of our child, spend my entire, nearly endless life with her, and wither away together in her loving embrace!

But how could I fix the lack of time?

This question should pose some hardship for me to answer as I was absolutely not an expert in what the time was in the very first place. Thankfully, even without the ability to connect with bonger, the changes he did to my body and mind remained.

And that empowered me to recall all the memories I had from my life on earth. Along with all the details of the extremely deep, educational videos about the space and physics behind it that I watched to lull myself to sleep at times.

Sadly, without the proper knowledge about the very basics of the science, no matter how much I thought, I was unable to even guess what some of the phrases could mean, not even after rewatching the same memory for over a thousand times.

But if I can't figure something out, then I could always come up with something on my own, couldn't I?