David sat in the heart of the Chronos Abyss, and time lost all meaning.The cave around him had ceased to be a physical space. It had become something else entirely a nexus where past, present, and future converged into a single eternal moment. The crystallized walls pulsed with temporal energy, each pulse a heartbeat that might have been his own or might have belonged to someone who had sat in this exact spot a million years ago. There was no way to tell. There was no way to measure. There was only the flow of Time, endless and patient, carrying him forward into comprehension.His eyes were closed, but he was not asleep. He was not even meditating in the traditional sense. He was dissolving into the fabric of Time itself, letting its currents carry him where they would. His body remained cross-legged on the cold stone floor, but his consciousness had expanded far beyond the cave. He could feel the Chronos Abyss around him like a living thing, its temporal energies swirling in patte

Outside the Chronos Abyss, in the fortress that guarded the Chronos Abyss, Commander Voss stood at the observation window, watching the vortex pulse with energy. It had been three years since David entered the Abyss, and the temporal readings had been fluctuating wildly for the past six months. The wraiths, which had vanished the moment David arrived, had not returned. The sensors registered nothing but the steady, rhythmic pulse of Time itself, as if the Abyss was breathing."He's still inside looks like he might be trapped in a loop of time zone," Voss murmured to himself. "Whatever he's facing inside, he's still alive."He thought about the President of the Human Council, the man who had once sat in that same cave, meditating on the same truths, guided by the same presence. The President had emerged after thousands of years inside the Abyss, though only a hundred years had passed outside. He had come out with a mastery of Time that had allowed him to break through every barrier in

Marcus turned away from the window, ready to begin the work of destroying his enemy.And then he froze.The chamber door had opened without a sound. Standing in the doorway, his presence filling the room like a physical weight, was a figure Marcus had not seen in centuries.His ancestor.He looked exactly as Marcus remembered him, an old man with white hair and a face that seemed carved from ancient stone. His eyes were deep and dark, full of secrets that had been accumulating for longer than most civilizations had existed. He wore simple robes, unadorned and unremarkable, but the power radiating from him was anything but simple. It pressed against Marcus's senses like a mountain pressing against the earth."Ancestor," Marcus breathed, dropping to one knee. "I... I did not expect you. If I had known you were coming, I would have prepared a banquet for you.""Be silent."The words were spoken quietly, but they hit Marcus like a physical blow. He fell silent immediately, his heart poun

Marcus activated his personal communication device and selected Lord Erevan's private channel. The connection took a moment to establish. When Erevan's face appeared, the old Universe Lord looked unsurprised, almost as if he had been expecting the call."Marcus," Erevan said, his voice calm but cold. "I assume this is about the operatives you sent after David."Marcus swallowed hard. "You knew?""I suspected. The ancestor's warning was not subtle. And your family has a habit of acting before thinking." Erevan's eyes hardened. "Tell me what happened.""One of my operatives is missing. His name is Zane. He was assigned to monitor David's position near the Chronos Abyss. He missed his check-ins. His last location ping came from an unregistered relay station in the Rimward Territories.""Unregistered relay station. That's suspicious. Do you think he was compromised?""I don't know. But I wanted to inform you before verifying myself.""Before the situation spiraled out of control. Smart."

"The Divine Worlds." Albert's expression grew distant. "The realms of the True Gods. The places where the universe's ultimate power resides. I also don’t have the memory of Divine World detail as if some has sealed it but i know few things. After all, few beings like me have ever entered there. But I have few memories which are more like stories or legends. They are places where the laws of reality are so concentrated that reality itself becomes malleable. Where a single thought can reshape universes. Where time and space are not constants but suggestions."The silence that followed was heavy. David tried to imagine a Divine World—a place where the laws he had spent thousands of years mastering were as natural as breathing. It was difficult. It was like trying to imagine a color he had never seen."So this original world is at the second tier," he said finally. "The level of Original Worlds.""Yes. It has been at that level for eons. Stable, Enduring but now it is preparing to ascend