The dream seed started to shake. This reality was a blank slate. There was no concept of space, matter or time. So how did the seed shake? It defied all logic.

In this nonexistent reality. The dream seed was an anomaly.

Energy was limited.

There was no such thing as mental energy here. The dream force had long been exhausted. But Zhar had been revived. The temple had also been transported entirely into this new reality. But there was no time at all. So Zhar remained frozen.

There was no energy particles or light.

There were no celestial bodies.

No physical reality.

This lack of anything at all made the temple the center of the universe. Not just the center of the universe either. It was the center of the multiverse.

A completely new undeveloped cosmic order. There was no Gaia. No Zero. No John. There was no original incarnations or overgods. No gods or hidden existences. No higher beings. No concepts.

It was just Zhar. The dream seed and the temple on a mountain. This space couldn't even be described as a void or abyss. No logic existed.

There was nothing to ignite a change.

There was no big bang or massive event that set off a change on the cosmic scale.

There was no infinitely dense point to expand. The dream seed didn't have such a function. Inside the dream seed was the dormant consciousness of Somnus.

Something inevitable happened.

How could these structures Zhar had built with mental energy maintain form in a space where matter didn't even exist? They couldn't!

The mountain. The temple. Zhar's revival artifact. The dream seed.

It had become pure data!

Usually an overgod processes and renders reality. This wasn't the case here. There was no such processors.

There was no 'server' or 'storage' for this data.

But there also wasn't any loss or entropy.

It was immortalized.

The dream seed was the biggest anomaly in this space. It was sort of like an unstable element. The nature of dream force and the foundation of it.

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It made it flicker between something made of matter and something made of data.

From false to true and true to false.

Much like when Somnus turned his soul into a dream domain. He had expanded his soul and condensed it repeatedly. It had been transformed into a cube with a finite space.

This dream seed was different. It was a byproduct of an explosion of dream force and a fusion of Visdre and Somnus. It had also been handled by the end game Somnus from the cosmic order.

It was incredibly special.

As the seed expanded and condensed. Because of the lack of laws entirely. It didn't grow in the third dimension at all. It grew into an impossible fractal.

The fourth dimension? The fifth dimension? The sixth dimension? It grew without limit.

It was an infinite repeating fragment.

It pulsed like a heart.

It lacked nutrients to grow. There was no energy. But there was however something crucial to its evolution.

Data!

What did this mean in reality? Infinite growth potential!

You can think of this reality without concepts as being less then a simulation.

The existence of the temple forced an infinite data loophole.

You can think of data as on and off or zero and one.

While the temple was like a packet of information converted into data. This meant that there needed to be data to contrast it.

Think chaos and order.

The temple had become order due to it having consistent data. But this simple action alone caused the rest of the reality to become chaos!

Despite there being nothing to consume. The seed grew using this chaos! It became alive!

The dormant Somnus awakened from his dormancy. He was in a unique situation.

His body was the dream seed! There was no biological brain or nervous system. There was no real body. It was like an eldritch horror. A being completely incomprehensible.

His 'body' existed in an infinite amount of dimensions. These dimensions are related to space. So you can think of a ant being trapped in a circle. You can think of a human being trapped in a prison cell.

There was no concept of time in this reality. But the dream seed had grown in such a weird direction under the stimulation of chaos that it had grown past an infinite amount of spatial dimensions. This didn't simply mean it saw time in a unique way. There were things even more complicated then time that it surpassed.

What was the consequence of this?

It meant that Somnus could now think in this reality that lacked time.

If time existed before he entered this reality. He would've been able to see ALL time. But there was a slight issue. Time didn't exist before he entered this reality. It didn't even exist now.

His dream seed was constantly pulsing between states.

"This feeling..."

Somnus didn't know where he was. Or what had happened to him. But he felt amazing!

One thing Somnus had always worried about in terms of spiritual immortality was a fate worse then death. Running out of mental energy and becoming essentially paralyzed for a very long time.

But he could feel that is current existence wasn't simply an existence.

"It is as if I am the very fabric of reality itself."

"There is no universe. There is only ME!"

By adding order to nothing. Chaos was born.

Somnus was existing as an almost data lifeform. This was an extremely rare if not the only opportunity for an entity to be in such a situation.

Normally. Looking at reality in this way would wipe your personality. You would get assimilated by the universe. Becoming a tool.

But there was no universe or grand dao of the heavens to assimilate Somnus's personality!

He was in his own sandbox.

The data that was him began to observe.

"Let's begin..."