My name is Hataku Satoru.

I am a 20 year old college student, with an average constitution and no known health issues, an average happy family, with normal otaku hobbies, having a few otaku friends that I can talk to, and an author of some not-so-popular webnovels.

I don't particularly stand out but I'm happy with how things are.

I feel blessed, actually.

I don't need to particularly care for anything. Other than my studies, there are no particular concerns for me.

I'd be happy if I can find a good wife, have a normal family, build a nice house with an exclusive otaku-room, watch my children grow up, and finally retire with enough savings, watch my grandchildren, and finally die peacefully.

That is the sort of life I envisioned for myself.

But, as they say, life is full of uncertainties.

One of my childhood chuuni¹Short for the Japanese "chuunibyou", which roughly means "second year" of middle school sickness". It's an adjective for describing teenagers who try to act cool by being super mature or different, or dark and edgy, often with delusions of having hidden powers and stuff, but fail miserably because they're still thirteen(or fourteen). fantasies coming true was the not something I expected to happen to me.

My childhood chuuni self would've been excited for the adventure, but my current self don't.

I'm not dumb. I know how cruel the society is. And the fact that I'm leading a happy life when almost everyone around me have one or few complicated circumstances could only mean that I'm in a situation envious for many.

But that normal average life would be coming to a halt now.

Because in front of me is a "portal", or what seems to be one.

Along with a few others surrounding the portal, I'm being sucked into the portal.

With a regret that I haven't been able to say goodbye to my parents and apologize for leaving so suddenly, along with mild anticipation and worry for what is about to come, I, along with the few people around me, are finally sucked fully into the portal-ish looking thing.

Most isekai²It's a genre where the MC travels to another world. It could also sometimes include VR genre novels.  protagonists meet some sort of ROB³Random Omnipotent Being. Basically, an almighty God that gives away systems and powers to the MCs for some random reason, and in some cases for just their 'entertainment'. before their isekai adventure.

But what greeted me after being sucked into the portal is just outer space. Or void.

I am floating around seemingly randomly in space. There are stars all around me. No planets, stars, black holes, or fancy stuff like that. Just... stars. All around me. No sight of other people who got sucked into the portal.

A normal person would probably panicking around by now.

If it's an otaku, he'd wait around for the ROB to make an appearance. 

And if it's an experienced otaku, he'd probably start training. He'd expect the results of training in this place to be extraordinary and for it to bring some sort of benefit that he'd conveniently bring over to his second life.

But I am an experienced chuuni otaku. My rank surpasses all the above three.

Training helps. I won't argue with that. But if there is one thing I have learned from reading all those fanfictions and chinese isekais, I know there's some sort of energy floating around me. Something like void energy. Hopefully, it'd give me some of that haxx-like space affinity. If I'm lucky enough to get a second life, that is.

So, I have started to absorb as much 'air'(?) as I can. 

It's not enough. I must breathe more air.

So I started exercising. Without a care. Even if my limbs and muscles are screaming.

I greedily exercised over my limits, while absorbing as much air as possible.

My lungs feel like they'd rupture.

My throat dry.

I kept training and training.

Because I know, in this space-nothingness, if I stopped training, I'd go crazy.

I don't know when the ROB will come.

In the worst case, he may just ignore me, or maybe he could be so busy to not bother with a tiny existence like me. Or maybe an ROB doesn't exist at all.

So I kept training, until one day, my bones fractured.

But I still kept training.

Some time later, almost all my exercisable bones broke, and muscles ruptured.

Then I felt it.

There's some sort of chilly and warm-ish energy here.

It's refreshing. I wonder how two opposite kinds of energy co-exist at a time.

And I still continued. Even if I keep bleeding, I still continued.

Some time later, I observed that the color of my blood changed. It became greyish.

And then I knew. My training paid off.

With renewed vigor, I continued. With blood all over me.

After my bones broke, I exercised those parts I don't normally exercise.

Until finally, all of my bones broke.

But I continued.

Even while screaming.

My blood keeps coming out for some reason.

I wonder why I haven't died by Exsanguination⁴Death by blood loss.?

Probably because it keeps getting replenished with the void energy around me.

And I still continued.

Until I became numb. Until I can't feel my body at all.

I have trained even my eyes and ears. Every part of my body.

Everything. I did something or the other, even going as far as pulling my hair out to train my hair, wondering if it ever helps.

Eventually, I became able to regrow lost body parts. My regeneration became ridiculous.

So I decided.

I'd cut off one body part one at a time and train my regeneration.

At this point, I realized.

I became crazy.

But I did't care.

Either way, I'd become crazy. I'd prefer it if I train some more before that time comes.

I want all the void energy I could get my hands on, before the ROB comes, or before I become completely crazy.

So I will continue.

And continue, I did.

After a long time, when I cut my body with bones I previously sharpened for cutting, I couldn't keep up.

Yes, my regeneration speed exceeded my physical speed of cutting them off.

Like, the bone sword(?), which I created with a previous femur bone, just passed through it.

Nothing. Even my brain and heart.

I tried all I could.

I even collected my arteries and veins, made a thread, tied the bones into a rock-like shape, before dropping it onto me.

I became a blood mush, but I still regenerated.

Even when all my blood scatters, as long as a single drop of blood, or even a part of it remains, I will be able to regenerate.

I can regenerate from anywhere where my body part exists.

My strength and speed too reached unimaginable levels.

My sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, all my five senses are enlarged.

I even trained my tolerances.

I trained pain tolerance.

I trained breathing under my blood with a tub made of bones.

I trained my smell till I can identify each drop of my blood, and I even trained my hearing, by making some dominos-like thing so that it can act like a timer and dropping giant bone boulders at a huge distance away.

It became ridiculous at that point.

Time and distance became lost concepts to me.

But I still continued.

At some point, my ears grew. It became elf-like. And they became more sensitive to noise and touch. I trained them too.

My skin became shiny, soft and smooth. Looking extremely healthy. Even a slight touch, the slightest of air(?), I could feel.

I think my facial features also became more exquisite.

Particularly, my eyes. They became an exquisite blue color. Faintly shining. Like cats have that night glow eyes.

How do I know which color they are? Obviously, I observed my reflection in my blood. I could differentiate different colors, and after experimenting a little with different body parts, I discovered how to identify the colors through their reflections in the blood.

My hair color changed into white, with violet at the beginning and pinkish-red at the tip. It became extremely long, reaching my ankles.

And slowly, I realized. I'm growing.

My height increased.

And I discovered a new marker for my growth. Height.

As time slowly passed, I still kept training, and my height kept growing.

My previous bones now look like ants to me.

And I still kept training.

Till I can't see those bones anymore. Well, I can, technically, my eyes are far advanced, but I needed to concentrate.

So I kept training my other senses, tolerances, and strength with it too.

At some point, I made swords, spears, whips, lances, bows, hammers, all sorts of weapons, obviously with my body parts. And trained my proficiency with them too.

I even made ninja tools, hidden weapons of ancient xianxia lore, etc.

As time passed, I became able to control my body as I wished to now.

I could stop my blood flow at some point.

Obviously, I trained it sufficiently till I can't die by doing this sort of training.

At some point I discovered how to control my nervous system too.

Even the brain.

I trained it too.

I know I became crazy long time ago.

My memories became distant. I can't forget them, or rather, it became more clearer as time passed by, but what I meant is that it became something similar to a movie.

Of course, I trained my memory too. Can't forget it.

And as I kept training, I became able to hear and see atoms and molecules.

I controlled some of my tissues to become so small that I can interact with them too.

I did all sorts of experiments.

I even experimented with my body. Biological experiments.

Slowly, as time passed, I became able to see and hear the future, and the past.

I then knew. I should probably train both my eyes and ears. Along with my brain, so it can keep up.

Training my brain is easy, I have to increase my thinking speed, memorization, identifying of different objects at bottleneck-speed, etc.

Of course, I long trained my muscle memory.

My training of weapons has reached the limit. I made different realms of training weapons, like sword intent, sword domain, sword soul realm, etc..

At some point, all weapons became the same. No matter what weapon, though even if it's not a weapon I can use it as one, with a proficiency of, probably, the highest realm.

The weapon intent.

I mean, no matter what, I can't train it further. Physically, at least.

So I started training the void energy.

I slowly sensed the void energy in and around me, and attempted to control it.

At the beginning, I couldn't. I became happy. I started training that too.

Slowly, I became able to control anything. Basically anything.

I can breathe fire, control lightning, wind, synthetically-engineered earth(which was a result of my research), and all sort of stuff.

I could control something more and more distance away.

I trained my senses to keep up with the growing distance.

I categorized my senses into three. Sight, hearing, and touch. Smell and taste included in the touch category. I initially wanted to include hearing and sight into the touch category too but I realized I became able to hear and see the void energy. So they became separate categories.

Slowly, I could became able to use void energy more proficiently.

I used void energy to understand weapon domain realm, weapon soul realm, weapon river realm, weapon sea realm, weapon ocean ealm, weapon planet realm, weapon galaxy realm, and slowly, weapon void realm.

At that point, I knew instinctually.

This is the limit. Otherwise, I'd die.

So I stopped concentrating on weapons and continued my research on other things, all the while training my body, and increasing my height.

At some point, my control over the elements reached a bottleneck.

So I used void energy. With void energy, I became able to control even atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons and even tinier particles, including light, and darkness(yes, darkness element is a thing.)

Slowly, it evolved into void bending. Void energy is all around me. I bend that void to actualize all sorts of phenomena. At some point, I realized, where does all this atoms come from?

Void energy.

So I started trying to convert void energy into different particles. It became something similar to creation magic. That, is Void Bending.

At that point, I became able to do pretty much anything. My body is no longer the same. My body is now entirely composed of Void Energy.

I made clones of myself with void energy and fought.

I fought, and fought, and fought.

I sometimes experimented if I could do more.

I mean, I became able to see and hear more and more into time.

Slowly, as time passed, I became able to hear and see the time I entered this place.

As I became able to see and hear more and more, I realized why I ended up here.

It was a coincidence. 

Yes, a coincidence, of all things. A space anomaly. I am sufficiently knowledgeable to know that void energy is something like end-game content. When human technology reaches it's limit, they'd discover void energy. And with that, a xianxia-like development comes. It was how development should've happened.

Anyway, with a coincidence, I ended up here.

Those that got sucked into the portal with me, all ended up dead at some point. Some lived for some time due to the abundant void energy around them. But they eventually became crazy and killed themselves, which I saw and heart, from start to finish.

And I? A coincidence. I kept destroying myself, I became crazy before I become crazy enough to kill myself. I took it slowly till I reached this near-invincible strength and knowledge.

As I watched slowly, I observed the city live in get destroyed as an after effect of the spacial disturbance, and my parents die as a result.

Anyway, I watched as the portal grew. And like in the old korean lore, more and more portals appeared all around earth. Monsters invaded. Void monsters. 'Hunters' came to be, bearing supernatural powers they got from hunting monsters inside the portals.

Hunting inside portals would allow their bodies to absorb the void energy released from killing the void monsters, thereby allowing them to obtain whatever skills the monsters has, which are easily accessible as the skills are recorded in the void energy by the beasts in a primitive way to allow them to cast skills quick. In fact, if they discovered the void energy, instead of the skills themselves, they could do much more. But the technology is not so developed to make them realize it.

They only obtain superficial knowledge recorded in the void energy due to their insufficient technology and human limitations.( I became something like a void-energy lifeform a long ago.)

Anyway, they used their skills to kill monsters, and obtain skills and wealth. I watched as the world's governing system changed with the emergence of powerful hunters. The establishment of guilds, the usual fights for 'high-grade portals', before finally, one person obtained so much power that his body couldn't take it and exploded, triggering the portals to explode one by one, before the whole world got obliterated.

I watched everything. Heard everything. And I lost interest. I started training more.

More......

More...

More.

I became able to change my size. So I got an idea. Why not increase my size to encompass all the void energy there is?

And I did exactly that. I absorbed everything.

Wrong. I became everything.

I became a ROB. A true ROB. I randomly came to be, randomly lived, randomly experimented, randomly increased my strength and knowledge, and finally became Omnipotent and Omnipresent, totally because of a random coincidence. I'm still not omniscient, but omnipotent and omnipresent, I am.

After I became ROB, my thoughts are slowly coming came to a stop.

So this is how an omnipotent and omniscient ROB dies. Death of the universe. I wanna watch it too.

And I realized.

Other than the void energy around me, there are threads all around me.

After hearing the voice of the voice energy around me, I realized.

Lines of Death.

It reminds of the death lines Ryougi Shiki sees from her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

All those lines became one. And shone brightly, until it became one point. It shone with magnificient brilliance, before slowly extinguishing.

Along with the all-consuming darkness, my thoughts are coming to an eternal stop.

Until, at one point, it stopped.

What he didn't realize is that in his blue exquisite eyes, a reddish colored ring appeared.

Level9ROB

Wow. Now that I'm looking at this after a long time, I don't know how I even wrote that.I wanted to edit it, but I kinda also wanted to publish the unedited version. I may publish another edited and more fleshed out version sometime(years) later, but I won't do it now.

I may or may not continue this.

Writer's block. Both my previous stories also suffer from the same. I can't properly imagine how the interaction with other people goes. And until I figure that out, all three works of mine will be on hiatus.

Well then, if you enjoyed this chapter, don't forget to like and add this to the favorites, along with a comment and review.

Yours truly,

Level9ROB