Six epochs ago, during the era of technology, plasticity, corruption, and shams, something strange happened to the world of that time. It was a massive wave, a wave that sent the world into chaos. People felt it on that day—the day when all technology failed.

No one knew the origin of the wave, but its effects were immediate and catastrophic. Devices that had once connected the world went silent, cities of metal and glass turned dark, and the hum of machinery that humanity had grown so accustomed to ceased. In the ensuing chaos, governments crumbled, societies fractured, and the world was plunged into a new dark age.

But that wasn’t all. Six years, six months after, on the sixth day, all the technology, all the computers, all the phones, PCs, and every piece of tech lit up. Even books, scrolls, caves, carvings, and hieroglyphics glowed.

It was weird, but it just kept getting weirder. From them, a bright black light, as contradictory as it sounds, appeared in the sky like a second sun. Uncanny strings of energy emerged from each form of data, reaching toward the ironic dark light.

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Humans watched in awe and terror as these strings siphoned information and matter. Books and tech shrank until they became dust. On the seashores and coasts, in third-world communities and city dumps, pollution—plastics, nylons, metals, and even radioactive waste—disintegrated, drawn into the light.

The ‘colors’, the very components of the world, kept disintegrating. Day and night, people watched as everything turned darker and darker until…

From the ruins of the world, the first chaos beings emerged. Ancient and inscrutable, these entities had slumbered for eons, now awakened by the collapse of the technological veil that had kept them at bay.

With their birth came cataclysm. On the day the first chaos beings appeared, the black light convulsed, and a resounding boom echoed around the globe. People of different races, religions, continents, heritages, and beings witnessed the world undergo a metamorphosis.

The earth, no—the plane—shook as the world changed before the eyes of the millions who still existed. Places lost in history, places from legends, buildings, and structures reconstructed themselves. Temples, mountains, and libraries emerged anew. What else came into being wasn’t known, but…