"At first, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day' and the darkness 'night.' And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day." —Genesis

"Another year has passed." Awakening from slumber upon the desolate expanse of the vast and empty earth, Lein gazed upon the familiar yet foreign land, seemingly untouched by the passage of time. Having spent many years in this world, Lein still couldn't grow accustomed to its emptiness and desolation. Unlike the creation described in the Bible, Kaos had evolved from chaos, a reality Lein had witnessed firsthand. Thus, it hadn't become complete within a mere seven days; instead, it remained barren and desolate to this day. But today was different because with Lein's awakening, a new deity was about to be born. "The Twelve Titans, the day we've been waiting for has finally arrived..." Feeling the rhythm of the laws, the waves of the Source Sea, Lein looked up. On the distant horizon, a magnificent ribbon of colors danced across the sky, intensifying the vibrations of the laws. It was the herald of a new god's birth. This wasn't the first time. In the nascent world of Kaos, Lein had witnessed the birth of many gods, the last one being seven hundred years ago. Of course, in the newly formed heavens and earth, "years" was an inappropriate term. There were no days and months, let alone the concept of "years." But Lein liked to call it that, so Kaos had acquired a new term for measuring time: "years." It's worth mentioning that the first term, "day," was coined by Lein after witnessing the birth of Nyx, the deity who ruled over the night, a trinity of ancient gods. Thus, Lein gained the authority of "time." However, authority wasn't the same as power; it was merely the embryo of divine duty, which is why Lein remained merely the god of spirituality. "Chronos and Rhea, the true masters of time are about to be born." Letting out a long sigh, Lein leaned against the entrance of the excavated cave, gazing at the ever-shifting scenery between heaven and earth. Even with the perception of a deity, Lein couldn't sense the source of everything across the boundless expanse of the earth. But Lein didn't need to 'see' because heaven and earth were merging together.

"In every corner of the world, on the hills, beneath the vast seas, the breath of desire rises, and new life is gestating. For many years, in Lein's observation, the newborn Kaos differed considerably from subsequent myths, but in the birth of deities, they seemed fundamentally the same.

The origins of all things stem from the dark void, with the vast earth born alongside the primordial goddess. As the first sentient being in the world, Lein witnessed the birth of the primordial gods firsthand, and thus, Kaos welcomed its first batch of life. Later, under the influence of the world's call, Gaia, the Earth Mother, conceived the sky, the seas, and the mountains. Uranus, Pontus, and Urea were subsequently born, bringing Kaos closer to becoming a complete world.

Now, thirteen hundred years since Lein began to measure time in 'years,' Gaia's eldest son, Uranus, the Sky Father, is about to wed his progenitor, and the Twelve Titans are poised to enter this world. Of course, 'Titans' didn't exist at this time. They were great primordial deities, the supreme beings conceived by Gaia and Uranus, possessing immense power from birth. With their birth, the laws of the world would be perfected, and the throne of the divine king would be bestowed upon the lord of the sky through the manifestation of patriarchal authority.

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Apart from Lein, it's unclear whether Eros, who seemed to die instantly after birth, ever existed. He would be the first generation of divine kings.

"But none of this concerns me." Shaking his head, Lein, with divinity shimmering in his eyes, observed the laws of the world pulsating and becoming whole. The desolate Kaos was becoming more vibrant with the birth of new gods. But the festivities were for them; Lein had nothing. As a weak traverser and the god of spirituality, his power didn't even compare to a single hair on the lord of the sky's head.

Many years ago, when Lein arrived here at the birth of the world, they were very confused. Other traversers could reincarnate, possess bodies, or merge souls, but they at least had a body. However, when Lein arrived, Kaos had just opened up, and the primordial gods were still gestating, so there wasn't even an object for them to possess.

Fortunately, as the first entity in this world, Lein's original soul transformed into the essence of spirituality and the faint divinity of time and space. With this, Lein fashioned the bodies of the gods, avoiding the fate of dispersing souls. The authority of the time sequence also depended heavily on this— it wasn't easy for anyone to create a new concept and gain authority. The existence of time and space divinity allowed Lein to cleverly establish the existence of 'years' and 'days' in the world, gaining the weakest authority of time.

But authority wasn't power; the latter was the essence of divine duty, while the former was only an extension of the domain. If Lein wanted to elevate authority to power and obtain the identity of the god of time sequence, they would have to follow those two paths.

Either by directly implanting concepts into the world with great power, or by having enough gods recognize their identity as 'creator,' and then gradually gaining this divine duty over a long period of time.

Unfortunately, Lein couldn't do either. They didn't have the power to shake the world, nor the ability to gain recognition from the gods. So Lein could only wait silently, waiting for an opportune moment.

For example, when this divine king was about to be born.

A buzzing sound suddenly echoed, with no source yet seemingly everywhere. The sound was clear but not piercing; it was the restless agitation of anticipation.

The next moment, endless light and boundless water appeared out of nowhere in the void. In the newborn world of Kaos, the earth stood in the center, surrounded by the sea from all sides. But at this moment, in the unreachable depths of the sea, on the earth, and in the sky, new water materialized out of thin air, gradually giving birth to streams.

Okeanos, also known as Oceanus, the eldest brother of the Twelve Titans, the lord of the vast ocean and the encircling river, was finally born into the world of Kaos.

At this moment, Lein could clearly feel that the power originally belonging to the primordial sea god, Pontus, had been divided in two, with one part directly colliding with the circumambient currents.

That was the world cutting his power.

Overall, the oceans and waters rose, but Pontus suffered severe damage. He still held the divine office of the ocean floor, the near seas, and saltwater, but the symbol of freshwater and ocean currents had been replaced by the newborn deities.

In Lein's perception, the once-powerful aura of the oceans weakened instantly. To be more precise, it had dropped from 'mighty god power' to 'moderate god power.