The God That Learned to Crawl

Before gods, before demons, before even hell had a name - there was ash.

From the ruined remains of a failed creation, something small and malformed crawls into existence. Blind. Fragile. Forgotten before it is even born. In the lightless depths of the newborn Abyss, survival is not granted - it is taken.

This is the beginning of Cept.

Not as a devourer of deities.
Not as a sovereign of hell.
But as a writhing, nameless thing feeding on rot and maggots in the sediment of a broken universe.

Ash and Instinct begins the slow ascent of the first centipede in creation-a creature that will one day rival gods, but must first learn how to endure hunger, pain, and the brutal arithmetic of survival. Each meal changes it. Each wound strengthens it. And somewhere in the dark, greater prey has begun to stir.

Power is not inherited.
It is consumed.

This chapter marks the first step in Cept's evolution - from vermin... to something far more dangerous.