Free Web NovelChapter 4: Chapter 4: Void Null
A vast expanse of light engulfed Roman’s entire form — so intense it stung his eyes, forcing them shut almost the moment they opened.
His first instinct was to breathe.
But there was no wind. No air moving in any direction. No oxygen he could draw in, no sound he could hear, no taste on his tongue, no words he could push past his lips. All five senses, stripped away at once — leaving behind nothing but the white.
Then, gradually, the light began to settle.
Vision returned first. Slow and uncertain, like eyes adjusting after a long sleep — except there was no room nor any ceiling.Only a vast, luminous expanse stretching endlessly in every direction.
Then faint sound of something burning reached him. A low, sourceless crackle at the very edges of perception, as though the space itself was quietly consuming something he couldn’t see.
Smell and taste remained absent.
There was no ground beneath him. No surface, no texture, no anchor point of any kind. Nothing to stand on. Nothing to hold. He was suspended in the middle of everything and nothing all at once.
A Vast expense of Void.
’Where am I?’
The thought drifted through him slowly, unhurried, the way thoughts move when the mind has nothing familiar to grab onto.
His eyes moved across the expanse — and then stopped.
In the far distance, something raged.
A dot of violent, churning light — small from where he was, but radiating a pressure he could feel even across the emptiness between them. It pulsed and trembled, barely containing itself, as though it might shatter at any moment.
’Ugh! What is this sense of deja Vu? Have I seen it somewhere?’
Curious,Roman drifted toward it— slowly at first, then faster, pulled as much by instinct as intention. The dot grew as he approached, its light intensifying, its trembling becoming something closer to fury the nearer he got.
He stopped just before it.
’What is this?’
The thought barely had time to form before his instinct moved his hand for him — one finger extended, reaching toward the violent, raging light.
The moment he made contact with a finger, the dot erupted. Blazing brighter, trembling harder, a pressure that pushed against him from every direction at once —
And then it simply vanished.
Disappeared as though it had never been there at all.
Before Roman could process what had just happened, a notification split through the silence like a blade through still water.
[Universal Notification!]
[Welcome, Gods. To Godcraft Genesis.]
[Your Base Planet has been positioned before you. You hold absolute authority within it. You can bend its rules, control everything within it — cultivate it to its prime or destroy it entirely. The choice is solely yours.]
[An integrated system has been attached to your soul, triggered only by the word ’Status’. Utter it to access further details.]
Roman stared at the notifications for a few seconds, then shifted his gaze forward.
"Is that supposed to be my planet?" He muttered, staring at the red giant burning before him as though it had been doing so for eternity. "Doesn’t that look like the sun?"
The absurdity was something. How exactly was he supposed to create life on a sun?
Not wanting to waste any more time on that particular question, he muttered, "Status."
A translucent blue interface materialised in front of him — a sight all too familiar to a pro gamer.
[GOD NAME: Unnamed]
[BASE PLANET: Unnamed]
[BASE PLANET LIFEFORMS: 0]
[OCCUPIED PLANETS: 0]
[DIVINITY LEVEL: 1]
[TALENT: Creator’s Creation — SSS Grade]
[TITLE: God Without A World]
[KARMA POINTS: 10]
[→ Choose Your God Name]
As he slowly let the information settle, he stopped at one particular line.
[TITLE: God Without A World]
He stared at it for a few seconds without a word.
"The irony is delicious. It’s almost mocking!" He said flatly. "A child thrown in a dumpster, 0% synchronisation, and now something hollow in the most popular game in the world as well. Yup — that’s me."
He sighed softly. Not even angry at the misfortune he’d been placed in.
"Well, at least I can play the game. Or maybe just watch others play? I mean — what am I going to do without a world? Suck my fingers and cheer Olive on?"
His demeanour shifted at the thought. Different scenarios ran rampant through his mind.
Pushing past them, his eyes drifted to the talent and the karma points.
If he remembered correctly, there were no karma point settings in Godcraft. It was all about faith points.
’Weird.’
He brushed that thought aside and clicked on the talent details.
[TALENT NAME: Creator’s Creation]
[GRADE: SSS]
[DESCRIPTION: The user may descend upon any planet once every 500 planetary years.]
[NOTE: Planets available for descent will appear on your unique feature World Radar.]
For the sake of the heavens, Roman held his silence for a full ten seconds.
"Well well well." A genuine chuckle crossed his face — perhaps for the first time in his life. "I guess I’m not entirely helpless. The possibilities are endless."
A talent that let its user descend on any planet.
A God without a world couldn’t ask for anything better than this.
On the surface he was a God without a world — but underneath, he could experience every world. And perhaps, at some point, occupy one as well. By making its lifeforms forget whose name they used to pray to.
The mere thought sent a shiver down Roman’s spine.
And finally —
[→ Choose Your God Name]
"Void Null." Roman muttered softly.
He hadn’t come up with it on the spot. He didn’t even need to think about it.
It was a name he had carefully chosen from the day he enrolled at the Academy.
Void — for always being a in a solitude to the point he started to enjoy it. For always feeling something hollow inside, as if some things or part of him were missing.
And Null?
That had been added recently. A gift from the synchronisation capsule and its 0%.
[Are you sure you want your God Name to be "Void Null"? This cannot be changed.]
"Yes," Roman whispered. "Without any shred of doubt."
[God Name: Void Null — Confirmed.]
"Now that that’s done." Roman muttered, glancing around at the endless void surrounding him. "Let’s see what I actually have access to."
He intended to go through every function and setting available to him. However, before he could close the interface, another universal notification materialised uninvited.
[Universal Notification!]
[The countdown to the Opening of the Countless Worlds has begun.]
[Countdown: 9:56]
"Not that I have any world to begin with," Roman shrugged, closing the notification without much delay.
He swiped across the panels until two options caught his eye — [Universal Chat] and [Transaction Space].
He clicked [Transaction Space] first.
[Locked.]
[Accessible only after the World’s Opening.]
He had known this from the Godcraft newbie guidelines. He’d tried it anyway. Miracles happened occasionally, even to people like him.
Apparently not today.
He opened [Universal Chat].
It was already chaos.
"Miss Alice Crimson! If you see this message, know that I love you more than anything in this world!"
"Ryuto my beloved! Message me if you see this! Let’s play together!"
"Is this a God Chat or a love confession forum??"
"Tsk tsk. Our universe is doomed. Why do so many incels have to be in the same universe as me?"
Roman read through the messages with the expression of a man who had expected very little and was still somehow disappointed.
Then a new message appeared — from a God named Nox.
"Now now, let’s not get distracted just yet. We are all respectable Gods here. Such trivial worldly desires don’t suit any of us. I know everyone is bored, so why not do something exciting to spice things up?"
The chat went briefly, unusually quiet. As if everyone had paused to wonder what this person was about. freewebnoveℓ.com
Before anyone could respond, Nox continued.
"Why not share what talents we received? It would be interesting, don’t you think?"
"You must be high on cocaine, mate. Why would anyone share their God talent?"
"Now now! No need to get riled up — nobody is forcing anyone. It’s simply a goodwill gesture between Gods. Tell you what — if you’re all so hesitant, I’ll go first."
Nox attached an image to the message.
Driven by curiosity, Roman clicked it.
[TALENT NAME: Nightfall Dominion]
[GRADE: SS]
[DESCRIPTION: The user may shroud any planet under an eternal night for 100 planetary years. During this period, all lifeforms experience accelerated evolution driven by survival instinct.]
Roman let the name sit on his tongue for a moment. Nox.
He filed it away carefully in the back of his mind alongside a single quiet assessment — cunning, manipulative, wrapping self-interest in the language of goodwill. This one will be trouble.
He turned his attention back to the chat. Surprisingly, it was working. More and more Gods were now responding, attaching their own talent images, drawn in by Nox’s move like moths to a flame they hadn’t noticed was a flame.
"My talent is Water Manipulator — C Rank. What am I supposed to do with this when my entire world is ice and rocks?"
"My talent is Hephaestus! It says there’s a 43% chance my lifeforms will become blacksmiths!!"
"LOOK GUYS LOOK AT WHAT I GOT!" — from a God named Tripido, with an attached image.
Roman clicked it.
[TALENT NAME: Temporal Surge]
[GRADE: S]
[DESCRIPTION: The user may accelerate time on their planet by 10x for a maximum of 100 planetary years per use.]
Roman filed the name Tripido away as well.
He kept reading, scrolling through the flood of messages — quiet, still, absorbing everything. Names. Talents. Grades. Personalities bleeding through typed words. He catalogued each one that mattered and let the rest wash past.
"Nox! Can I GM you?"
"Nox! Join my Pantheon and I’ll make it worth your while!"
The chat was unravelling exactly the way Nox had intended it to. Roman watched it happen with a kind of detached appreciation.
’I really do have to hand it to him, he thought, the faintest trace of amusement crossing his face. Baiting an entire universe of Gods into voluntarily surrendering their most valuable information — and making them feel good about it while he did it.’
"What a profound scammer."
