The god that separated from the divine entity did not descend with violence; that was what unsettled Eron most. The battlefield had become a place of pressure, collapsing skies, and impossible force. Everything about the war felt loud even when no one spoke. Yet this figure moved downward in complete stillness, untouched by the chaos surrounding the fractured heavens.Kael watched carefully as it approached.The other gods remained above, unstable within the combined entity, while the ancient weapon continued charging behind them. The glowing core at the center of the structure slowly brightened, spreading pale light across the broken sky, but this god ignored all of it.It descended directly toward Kael.Eron stepped forward instinctively, placing himself beside his brother before the figure touched the ground.The god finally landed on the shattered plains between the city and the battlefield. Unlike the others, its form did not distort the air around it. It looked almost painfully

The heavens broke first, not completely, not cleanly, but enough for everyone below to feel the change. The ancient extinction weapon, once locked onto the world beneath it, suddenly shifted direction. The glowing core's center rotated upward instead of downward, forcing waves of violent pressure through the fractured sky.The divine entity reacted immediately. For the first time since descending, the gods lost composure completely.“You damaged the channel,” one voice thundered from within the unstable collective.Another answered with visible panic. “The targeting structure is collapsing.”Kael stared upward, his pulse tightening. Inside the heavens, Eron had done more than reject the imposed destiny system. He had destabilised the authorisation layer itself; now, the weapon no longer recognises fixed command structures correctly.The creator god looked toward the shifting core with alarm spreading across its otherwise calm expression.“If the system cannot identify proper authority

The moment Kael’s presence disappeared from the shared current, Eron stopped breathing, but not physically. His body still worked, but something inside him locked hard enough to make the entire world feel distant for one terrible second.The connection was gone, not weak or buried. The battlefield noise around him faded beneath the sudden ringing in his ears. The trembling ground, the collapsing heavens, and the voices around him all blurred together into meaningless sound.“No,” Eron said quietly.Tavin heard it immediately. “Eron.”“He is still there.”The words came fast, almost automatic, not denial but refusal. The creator watched him carefully but did not interrupt. Eron reached for the current again instinctively, searching through the massive network stretching across the world, but nothing answered. Fear hit harder this time because the silence felt wrong.Kael had always been there. Even when Kael was damaged, distant, or during their fights, he had always been there. The ab

The moment the dying gods’ power surged into Kael, the fractured realm reacted violently. Light burst beneath his skin in sharp waves, spreading through the cracks already covering his body. The collapsing structures around him trembled harder as if the system itself recognised something impossible happening inside him.Eron grabbed his shoulders immediately.“Kael.”Kael’s breathing turned uneven for a second before he forced it steady again. “I know.”The answer sounded strained, not from fear but from pressure. Outside the fracture above them, another god disappeared beneath the extinction weapon’s attack. The resulting shockwave rolled through the heavens like thunder, and Kael doubled over sharply this time.Eron caught him before he fell. The current between them burned painfully now; every divine death fed directly into the unstable system integrating inside Kael.Eron looked at the glowing fractures spreading across his brother’s arms and neck. “You need to stop whatever this

The system reacted instantly; the moment Eron was identified as unauthorised interference, the extinction weapon shifted part of its focus away from Kael and toward him instead. Pale lines of energy spread across the fractured platform beneath Eron’s feet, then the weapon attacked.A violent force exploded upward from the divine structure itself, moving faster than human reflexes could properly follow.Eron barely saw it coming, but Kael did. He turned immediately and intercepted the strike before it reached Eron fully. The impact slammed directly into Kael’s chest and launched both brothers backward across the unstable platform.The collision shook the surrounding structure hard enough to crack sections of the weapon’s outer ring. Eron hit the ground painfully beside a fractured support pillar while Kael crashed several feet away. For a second, neither moved.Then Eron forced himself to stand first. “Kael!”Kael pushed himself onto one arm slowly; blood ran from the corner of his mou