The darkness opened.And for the first time since the beginning of existence…Everything was scary.Not because of its strength.Not because of its power.But because of what it represented.The unknown.Diamond Blackwood stood at the edge of reality, staring into the endless void.He had faced armies that covered entire battlefields.He had faced kings who believed themselves untouchable.He had faced gods who believed they were eternal.But this was different.This was something that existed before fear had a name.The Creator looked at the darkness.The being who had shaped worlds.The force that created life.Now looked like a man standing before his own mistake."You should have stayed away."The Creator's voice was low.The darkness answered with a calm laugh."Stayed away?"A pause."I was never away."The words froze everyone.The Watcher stepped back.The Devourer lowered its head.Even the Origin, the being that once challenged all creation, remained silent.Diamond noticed.

The silence was unbearable.Not the silence of peace.The silence before destruction.Diamond Blackwood stood motionless.The universe around him continued moving, but his mind had stopped.Nyx.The one person who stayed when everyone else left.The one person who saw the broken man beneath the legend.The one person who pulled him back from becoming a monster.And now she stood before him with the truth.She was connected to the future version of himself.The same future self who became the destroyer of worlds.The same future self who wore a crown made from fear.Diamond looked at her.His voice was quiet."Say it again."Nyx looked away.Pain filled her eyes."I was sent back."A pause."By you."The words cut deeper than any weapon.Diamond shook his head."No."Nyx stepped closer."Diamond...""No."His voice became harder."That is impossible."The darkness watched them.The Creator remained silent.Everyone understood something terrible.This was not a battle.This was a wound

The dead had returned.Not as ghosts.Not as memories.As witnesses.Across the endless battlefield beyond creation, millions of souls stood silently.Kings who once ruled entire worlds.Warriors who died believing their battles were forgotten.Children whose lives ended before they understood the meaning of war.All of them had returned.And at the center of them all…stood Seraphina Blackwood.Diamond could not move.For thousands of battles, he had imagined this moment.The moment he would see her again.The woman who signed his death order.The woman who watched his name disappear.The woman who chose survival over loyalty.He imagined anger.He imagined revenge.He imagined satisfaction.But he felt something else.Nothing.Seraphina looked different.Not weaker.Not broken.Different.The confidence she once carried in the royal courts was gone.The arrogance of a noble woman who believed she understood power had disappeared.Now she looked like someone who had spent eternity ca

The truth did not arrive like a storm.It arrived like a blade.Slow.Silent.And sharp enough to cut through everything Diamond Blackwood believed.His eyes remained fixed on Maelis.His mother.The woman who held his hand when he was a child.The woman who waited for him when the world believed he was dead.The woman who became a symbol of hope among the broken.But now…she was the reason Nyx entered his life.The universe waited.Even the gods remained silent.Because everyone knew this truth would change everything.Diamond's voice was low."Tell me."Maelis looked at him.Pain filled her eyes."I never wanted you to know this way."Diamond stepped closer."Tell me the truth."A pause."All of it."Maelis closed her eyes.And for the first time…the strongest woman in his life looked afraid."I was the one who found the prophecy."Diamond froze.The word alone carried weight.Prophecy.The same thing that shaped kingdoms.The same thing that caused wars.The same thing that made

The words remained suspended in the darkness."Diamond Blackwood was the first weapon created by humanity..."Nobody moved.Not because they were afraid.Because nobody knew how to react.Diamond stood frozen.His entire existence had been a foundation.A name.A bloodline.A history.And now someone had reached into that foundation and torn it apart.The first Blackwood looked at him.Not with hatred.Not with pride.With sadness."You spent your entire life searching for who betrayed you."A pause."But you never asked the most important question."Diamond's eyes narrowed."What question?"The figure stepped closer."Who created you?"The silence became unbearable.Diamond looked toward Maelis.His mother.She could not look at him.Then toward Eryx.His father.The man who suffered for his legacy.Then Nyx.The woman who knew the truth.And all of them looked away.That hurt more than any wound."You all knew."His voice was quiet."You all knew I was not born."Maelis stepped forwa