Chapter 35:The Weight of Creation

Chapter 35:

The Weight of Creation

Errin exhaled, his body trembling. A crushing fatigue settled over him, deeper than anything he had ever known.

He felt so tired.

It was not just his body—it was something deeper. His very existence strained, as if the act of creation had drained more than just his energy. It had taken something fundamental from him, something he hadn't even realized he had been giving.

His vision blurred. The light he had woven into existence flickered, unstable, like a candle in the wind. The emptiness around him stretched vast and endless, waiting, watching.

Was this the cost?

The voice had warned him. Creation is not without consequence.

He staggered, falling to one knee. His heartbeat pounded in his ears, slow and heavy. Each breath felt like pulling air through water.

Had he overreached? Had he demanded too much of himself too soon?

Or was this simply the nature of all things that dared to bring something new into the world?

"Even the greatest artist must rest."

The voice—soft, familiar—whispered from the void.

Errin closed his eyes. He had taken the first step, the brushstroke on an infinite canvas. But even the stars did not burn without pause. Even the gods, if such beings existed, must have taken a moment before shaping all that was.

He let go.

The weight of creation pressed against him, and then—like a tide retreating from the shore—it eased.

Darkness embraced him.

And for the first time in a long while, he slept.

Body covered by threads and threads of starlight.,.Errin drifted in the sea of stars his mind a mesh of chaos,The reborn body existing in an infinity plain of life flickering between reality and illussion but still anchored into place where he originally was.