Agu grows very fast.
As the first being created by Elios after the birth of the world, he was formed using the symbol of peace from the previous world as a medium. He was born with various extraordinary powers, his blood carrying traces of the former world itself, and could be regarded as the son of the world.
He was born with high intelligence and an innate ability to comprehend many things.
To be given a name by God was equivalent to receiving divine grace.
"Gugu."
A sound escaped Agu's throat as his body seemed to inflate, growing rapidly.
There was very little life in this desolate world, but it was still a world. Some form of operation continued within it.
As a child of the world, Agu did not need to eat. He only needed to breathe and conform to the world itself. The world's breath flowed into his body, supporting his rapid growth.
His body could move in harmony with the world and mature continuously. If Elios had not imposed restrictions out of caution, Agu could have grown into a giant in an instant. However, such rapid growth would have caused Agu to be crushed by his own wisdom, his body too vast for his mind to bear.
A body without power was of little use to Elios now.
It was also of little use to the current desolate world.
What truly mattered was wisdom, and the civilization that would one day arise from it.
Agu swayed and twisted his body, instinctively shaking off the dirt clinging to him. The feathers on his wings, once soaked in liquid, stretched outward. The bare, undeveloped wings gradually took shape.
With his wings spread, Agu stood nearly three meters tall. Even without spreading them, his height was close to two meters.
He possessed obvious pigeon like traits, yet his torso resembled that of a human. White feathers covered his body. He had no hands, only wings. His calves were similar to those of a red crowned crane, slender and covered with fleshy scales. His thighs, hidden beneath his wings, were thick with muscle.
His head was much larger than that of an ordinary bird, making his neck appear short. Around it was a ring of black feathers that shimmered with multicolored brilliance under the sunlight.
Overall, he looked like an enlarged pigeon with faintly human features.
Adulthood was born.
This was Agu.
This was the first life in the world.
His scarlet eyes shifted away from God and toward the world.
Whenever Agu observed something with the intent to understand it, he instinctively grasped its basic properties and even its name. Gradually, a simple structure of the world took shape in his mind.
Yet before him lay only desolation. There was little he could recognize. What mattered most to him now was God.
"God."
Agu looked back again, and his instinct to recognize all things activated.
Although God clearly existed, Agu could not perceive much. God felt impossibly distant, so far away that he could not truly see Him at all.
Though God appeared to stand nearby, He was in fact seated upon the throne at the core of the world and had never left it.
As a son of the world, Agu could perceive only a limited outward manifestation of God.
This was the gap between man and God.
Even Agu, the son of the world, could not touch the deeper layers of existence.
"God, I do not want to be contaminated by the world. I want to stay with God."
Instinctively, Agu did not want to remain in this empty land. He wanted to go to the place where God was.
At this moment, Agu had only just begun to understand the world. His thoughts were simple, and he spoke whatever came to mind.
"The world is your journey," Elios said calmly. "The scenery of that journey comes from you."
With those words, He assigned Agu his mission.
"Yes, God."
Agu accepted it naturally, confirming his fate without hesitation.
Elios observed Agu and His creation. In that instant, black and red words appeared.
When Agu first saw them, something unfamiliar was added to his empty consciousness. A twisted and restless emotion began to stir within his heart. Just as it was about to erupt, the black and red words vanished completely.
"These things are too early for you," Elios said, suppressing the disturbance within Agu.
"When your journey ends, you will return to Me."
Thus ended the first conversation between God and man, and Genesis was recorded in the world.
Genesis 1:3.
God said, "You will complete your journey on earth and return to Me."
"Yes, God."
Agu's reply echoed through the empty world. God departed.
Though reluctant, Agu began his journey to fulfill his mission.
At this time, the world remained desolate. Apart from Agu himself, nothing had changed.
After standing still for a long while, Agu began experimenting with walking and flying. His body was fully matured and instinctively understood, so these actions came naturally to him.
The mission given by God gave him the courage to move forward and traverse this empty world.
Upon the throne at the core of the world, Elios's expression grew complex.
"As expected, madness is inevitable."
He had hoped Agu would remain pure, and that the civilization born from him would also be pure. Unfortunately, reality did not allow it.
Elios had gone mad, but not in the sense of losing reason. His madness manifested as cruelty and terror, acts that ordinary beings would find horrifying.
When Agu, with pure eyes, expressed his wish to remain by His side, the first thought that crossed Elios's mind was not affection, but destruction.
Toying with others.
Becoming calamity itself.
Taking pleasure in the suffering of all things.
These were acts Elios had committed countless times across all known existence.
Because it was boring.
Beautiful things brought joy at first, but after experiencing them hundreds or thousands of times, even beauty itself became tedious.
Across countless worlds, Elios had played every role imaginable, his Will fractured into infinite number of Avatars, each live as him, breath as him, buy his Order but not by Him, they were all programmed to act his a ambassador, and all that they did, was his doing, his actions, he had been a hero, a savior, a saint, a king, and an emperor, a God, a Mythos and All Above Heaven Existence. He had altered the course of history and embodied countless legends.
Eventually, destroying all of it and becoming a negative existence became inevitable.
Because he could be endlessly, other beings were nothing more than toys that could be reset at will.
This self amusement slowly dragged Elios toward nothingness.
Realizing he was sliding toward complete annihilation, Elios awakened from his destructive impulses and began planning to break the cycle of causality itself.
Otherwise, he would one day become an indescribable existence that derived pleasure solely from tormenting humanity, and all things beginning, straying from his path of progress, Enoch was All there was and All their is, but what is Enoch, that he must discover himself.
Even so, nothingness was deeply engraved within Elios's mind and could not be erased.
Nothingness was Elios's madness, and it often threatened to overwhelm him.
Had Elios not intervened in time, Agu would have been twisted into a grotesque existence by divine mental pressure alone.
Even so, Agu had already been tainted with a trace of ominous influence, and it was likely he would bring great trouble in the future.
Elios lifted his gaze toward the sky of the desolate world. The sun had turned an ominous dark red.
Once again, his hopes proved to be wishful thinking.
"Madness has become the underlying color of this world. It cannot be avoided, my Will is malignant."