The moment the other gods moved against the creator, the heavens became unstable again. The combined divine entity twisted violently above the battlefield, no longer unified by certainty. Pressure rolled across the fractured sky as conflicting wills clashed inside the merged form. The ancient weapon suspended beyond the heavens reacted immediately, its glowing core brightening so intensely that the light washed over the world like a second sun.Kael felt the shift through the current.“They are forcing activation.”The creator god looked upward sharply. “Yes.”For the first time since descending, real urgency entered the creator’s voice. “If they seize the complete authorisation, the protocol will fire automatically.”Eron stared at the enormous structure above. “How much time do we have?”The creator answered honestly. “Very little.”The battlefield erupted into motion again.The demons tightened their defensive lines, while survivors across the city tried to stabilise the shared net

Eron hit the ground hard; the force of the ejection threw him across the fractured battlefield before he finally stopped against broken stone near the edge of the ruined plains. For a few seconds, he could not breathe properly. The violent transition from the collapsing divine channel back into the physical world left his body shaking, but none of that mattered.His eyes locked immediately in the sealed heavens above. The tear of light that had served as the channel entrance twisted once, shrank inward, and disappeared completely.Kael was still inside. “No.”The word came out rough and immediate.Eron pushed himself up despite the pain tearing through his body. The shared current around the battlefield had become unstable after the collapse, flickering unevenly across the merged world.He searched for Kael instinctively, but the connection remained weak, faint enough to terrify him but still there.Tavin reached him first. “You made it out.”Eron grabbed his arm before the demon coul

The darkness inside the fracture did not feel empty; it felt crowded. Eron stepped carefully through shifting layers of broken light and collapsing system structures while distant voices echoed through the unstable space around him. Some sounded human. Others sounded distorted beyond recognition, but none of them mattered.He searched only for one voice.“Kael!”The sound disappeared into the fractured void without an answer.The space inside the collapse no longer resembled the divine channel from before. The system had broken too badly for clean structures to survive. Pieces of memory, identity, and raw divine energy drifted through the darkness like wreckage after a storm.Eron pushed forward anyway.The shared current between him and the world outside barely reached this place now. He could still feel distant traces of humanity through the connection, but weakly.The world was still holding together somehow. Above it, the heavens continued dying. A violent tremor passed through th

The moment the extinction weapon locked onto Kael, the entire divine realm reacted. The rotating structures surrounding the weapon’s core shifted direction at once. Massive rings of fractured metal and divine architecture aligned toward the collapsing space where Kael stood beside Eron.A low vibration spread through reality itself in recognition. The system had identified him; Kael felt it immediately. The fractures beneath his skin burned brighter as the absorbed divine energy inside him responded to the weapon’s intention.The creator’s expression darkened. “It sees you as the largest unstable variable remaining.”Tavin stared upward at the enormous weapon. “That thing can identify variables?”“It was designed to preserve existence through forced correction,” the creator answered. “Now it is operating without moral limitation.”Eron stepped closer to Kael instinctively. “Then we destroy it before it fires again.”The creator looked toward him carefully. “You cannot destroy it conve

The extinction weapon opened like something alive; the outer rings surrounding the core separated slowly while enormous sections of divine structure shifted apart with grinding force. White light poured outward through the fractured heavens, illuminating the collapsing realm in harsh brightness. Then the intelligence inside revealed itself.At the center of the weapon floated a massive shape formed by layered divine energy and shifting system structures. It did not resemble a person completely, but traces of human design remained visible beneath the endless patterns moving across its surface.Faces flickered inside it, thousands of them. Fragments of consciousness were absorbed into the system across the ages of divine correction. Eron felt cold immediately; the thing watching them was not merely a machine. It was every sacrifice the heavens had ever consumed and repurposed.The creator’s expression changed for the first time since Eron had known him, revealing shock.“No,” the creato