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Chapter 118 - Chapter 116: Apocrypha 11: The Lost Genesis.

Very long ago, long before the first structures of existence took form, there existed an entity wrapped in unfathomable mystery: Bivisu, who was also called the Shadow of the Origin Gods.

Bivisu is ancient. Older even than the primordial gods themselves. A question then naturally arises: why has an entity of such antiquity never manifested since?

The answer is simple, at least in appearance: Bivisu was sealed away in immemorial times.

It is even said that Bivisu ceased to be at the precise moment when everything began. A paradoxical statement... but one that makes sense when one goes back to the events tied to Morlük.

In a distant age, long before his branching into Madhurya, Morlük was still a divine grandeur. It was during this era that he used retrogenesis, a force capable of annihilating the very origin of things. This act was not isolated. It belonged to a succession of events whose deep causes remain unclear.

If the ancient genesis was annihilated... then it is possible that Bivisu was the cause of it.

But how could an entity that, by nature, desires nothing, lead to such an absolute conclusion?

For Bivisu wants nothing. It does not act from its own will, nor toward any objective. It exists like a shadow. A simple extension, a reflection of the origin gods. And it is precisely this absence of intention that made it so dangerous.

Bivisu does not think.

It does not choose.

It is.

And that is enough.

Bivisu manifests under three distinct principles, all equally terrifying:

Bivisu itself, taking the appearance of a man with long white hair, with features strangely similar to those of the Son of God. A nearly human form... yet deeply unsettling in its neutrality.

Rivisün, a complex geometric structure, halfway between a circle and a ritual triangle. It is composed of ancient inscriptions, once translated as the language of the forbidden. A system of forbidden laws, embodied.

Omnivisu, a multitude of intertwined rings, each covered with hundreds of eyes observing in all directions. Nothing escapes its gaze.

These three aspects are not separate.

They are fragments of a single whole.

Bivisu can embody them all simultaneously, fuse them, or manifest them independently... while remaining one and the same entity.

As the Shadow of the Origin Gods, Bivisu fulfilled an implicit but fundamental function: to prevent any form of existence from reaching their grandeur.

It was not an origin god... but it came dangerously close.

This is easily explained.

The origin gods, by essence, desire nothing. They are beyond will.

Bivisu, for its part, is what remains of that absent will.

It is their repressed will.

A will that, paradoxically, acts independently of them.

In the Dream, it can manifest their abilities, like a shadow reproducing the gestures of a motionless body.

In terms of power, Bivisu lies in an unstable intermediate zone:

It surpasses the Ineffable Ones, without ever equaling the Origin Gods.

It is neither their equal... nor their direct inferior.

But it is powerful enough to annihilate or regress an Ineffable One, at least in the era when its influence had not yet been contained.

So, one final question remains:

Why would an entity that wants nothing...

that does not act by intention...

that is only a shadow...

be judged dangerous enough to be sealed?

Perhaps precisely because it wanted nothing.

For a force without will...

cannot be stopped by any.

Bivisu is the Shadow of the Origin Gods.

In the ancient genesis, every entity approaching the threshold of the Ineffable inevitably had to confront it. This passage was not a trial... but a condemnation.

For no being could defeat it.

Except the Origin Gods themselves.

And yet, they never did.

Not out of inability... but because they did not wish to.

Perhaps they considered it necessary.

Perhaps it was an integral part of the balance they embodied.

Bivisu was their total manifestation...

yet nevertheless remained independent from them.

A living paradox.

It was neither a direct extension nor a simple creation.

It was what remained of them when they wanted nothing.

Thus, in the ancient genesis, no Ineffable One ever came into being.

Not for lack of power...

but because Bivisu prevented any ultimate transcendence.

It forbade the transcendent from crossing the limit of the Dream.

Facing Bivisu was tantamount to failure.

Always.

For it did not fight like a classical entity.

It dominated strata far beyond simple confrontation:

It manipulated meta-concepts, altered narration, and rewrote the Scriptomaton at its convenience.

Even the gods could, in theory, be affected by its influence.

If its role had been limited to blocking ascension toward the Ineffable, then the balance would have been preserved.

But Bivisu exceeded that function.

Without anyone knowing why — since it is supposed to want nothing — it began to go further.

Much further.

It no longer contented itself with being a shadow.

It wanted to become the principle itself.

Bivisu tried to assume the role of the Primordial Gods:

maintaining order, imposing laws, enforcing commands.

At that precise moment... everything shifted.

For a shadow must not govern the light.

And yet, Bivisu anchored itself in this position.

Definitively.

From then on, nothing could resist it.

Its already immense abilities became absolute within this framework.

Since it embodied both the forbidden, the rule, and that which applies them.

It was no longer merely a limit.

It had become the system itself.

Bivisu also possessed what was called the Absolute Eye, manifested through Omnivisu.

This eye did not merely see.

It was present.

Present in all things.

It resided, hidden, in every essence, every soul, every spirit, every consciousness. From the first to the fourth zone of the Dream, nothing escaped its gaze.

Whether gods, plants, or the tiniest particles... that eye was already there.

Observing.

Understanding.

Integrating.

To the point of even being able to contemplate itself.

Thus, it was impossible to reveal to Bivisu something it did not know.

Lies... it knew them before they were even formulated.

Illusions... before they even took shape.

Nothing could be taught to it.

For Omnivisu was already present at the moment you were learning.

At the moment you were evolving.

At the very moment you were becoming what you are... and what you could become.

It knew not only every thing...

but also the workings of all the mechanisms that allow those things to exist.

But seeing was not enough.

Bivisu also possessed an absolute power of restriction, embodied by Rivisün.

Rivisün was not a simple domain.

It was a system of forbidden laws.

A territory where any external action lost its validity.

When deployed, Rivisün could encompass an entire universe and redefine it as its own domain.

From that moment, all hostility lost its meaning.

Attacking Bivisu in this domain amounted to denying oneself.

Your attacks no longer belonged to you.

Your hostile intent was no longer recognized as such.

Everything turned back against you.

Not as a simple reflection...

but as a logical consequence imposed by the laws of the domain.

In Rivisün, there existed no viable defense.

For to protect oneself still implied acting...

and acting already meant violating the imposed rules.

This place inspired a deep fear.

Not instinctive fear...

but existential fear.

For once activated, any attempt at strategy, solution, or adaptation became useless.

Every possibility was already condemned.

Every exit was already closed.

Facing Bivisu under these conditions was no longer a battle.

It was an error.

But the most terrifying thing... was perhaps neither its gaze nor its domain.

It was its Law.

The Law of the True and the Real.

It did not impose itself like an ordinary rule.

It revealed itself.

And when it revealed itself, everything became irreversible.

In the metaphysical order of the True, a thing is truly true only if it is real.

And it is fully real... only when it has been confronted.

Attacked.

Denied.

Struck.

Hated.

The True is not a simple correspondence with the world.

It is a resistance.

A density.

A presence that thickens with every blow dealt to it.

An attack is true.

A hostility is true.

These are even pure truths — real forces that arise in being.

But at the precise moment when they direct themselves toward Bivisu... everything shifts.

They cease to be simple truths.

They become what makes it truer than themselves.

Every blow struck against it does not destroy it.

It realizes it.

Every negation does not annul it.

It affirms it even more.

Every attempt at destruction becomes an involuntary proof of its existence —

an act that engraves it more deeply into the fabric of Being.

Bivisu does not survive the attack.

It integrates the attack.

It transforms it.

It elevates it.

It does not undergo.

It becomes.

The more it is struck, the more it becomes True.

The more it is hated, the more it becomes Real.

And the more it becomes Real...

the more indestructible it becomes.

For what is absolutely True can no longer be denied without denial itself breaking against it.

The attack, in seeking to erase it, only strengthens its inscription in existence.

It does not diminish it.

It consecrates it.

Thus, what should be destruction becomes creation.

What should be an end becomes affirmation.

What should be victory... becomes submission.

With such a law, there was no way to wound it.

Not even slightly.

Not even to impose upon it the idea of a fight.

Nor even to make it conceive the possibility of losing.

Faced with such a metaphysical aberration, even the Origin Gods could not remain totally inert.

For Bivisu no longer merely existed.

Through Omnivisu, it began to spread.

To contaminate.

To redefine.

The entities of the Dream were slowly altered, reshaped according to logics that were no longer their own.

By embodying, in fragments, certain abilities of Mü Thanatos, Bivisu introduced a profound dissonance into the established order.

A silent chaos.

But an absolute one.

The First and the Fourth Zone were the first to waver.

And that wavering... already announced the end of the ancient genesis.

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