2026-07-31 08:30:07Silence filled the Hall of Possibilities.
Ethan looked at Kai.
“You knew?”
Kai slowly nodded.
“Yes.”
“And you never told me?”
“I couldn’t.”
“Why?”
“Because if I had…”
“The Vault would never have accepted you.”
Ethan looked away.
His thoughts were racing.
Everything he had believed about himself was changing again.
Erebos smiled.
“You see?”
“Even the man you trusted most kept the truth from you.”
Lyra stepped forward.
“He hid the truth to protect Ethan.”
Erebos laughed.
“That’s what everyone says after they lie.”
He walked toward one of the mirrors.
With a wave of his hand…
The glass became clear.
A moving image appeared inside it.
It showed an ancient city unlike anything Ethan had ever seen.
Silver towers reached into the clouds.
Floating islands drifted through the sky.
People walked through the streets with glowing symbols on their skin.
“What is this?”
Erebos answered,
“The First Civilization.”
“The place where the Legacy began.”
Another image appeared.
Scientists.
Engineers.
Children.
Families.
They were all smiling.
Then…
The sky turned black.
A massive crack opened above the city.
Strange creatures poured from the darkness.
Some had dozens of eyes.
Some had no faces at all.
Others were so enormous they blocked out the sun.
The city erupted into chaos.
People ran in every direction.
Buildings collapsed.
Explosions lit up the sky.
Ethan watched silently.
“What were those things?”
Kai answered quietly.
“The Void.”
Professor Orion’s journals had mentioned nothing like this.
Erebos continued.
“The Legacy System wasn’t created to rule humanity.”
“It was created…”
“…to save it.”
The image changed again.
Thousands of scientists gathered inside a huge laboratory.
At the center…
A silver sphere floated above the floor.
It looked almost identical to the Legacy Core.
One elderly woman stepped forward.
She placed her hand on the sphere.
“The Legacy must choose.”
Silver light spread across the room.
The Core created two infants.
One glowed with silver light.
The other was surrounded by black shadows.
The entire laboratory became silent.
Ethan’s eyes widened.
“Those babies…”
Erebos nodded.
“Were us.”
The silver baby.
Ethan.
The shadowed baby.
Erebos.
Lyra frowned.
“Twins…”
Kai corrected her.
“No.”
“They weren’t born naturally.”
“They were created as opposites.”
Erebos smiled.
“Balance.”
“Light and shadow.”
“Hope and fear.”
“Creation and destruction.”
He looked directly at Ethan.
“We were never enemies.”
“We were designed to complete each other.”
Ethan stared at the moving image.
The babies grew.
They trained together.
Laughed together.
Protected one another.
For years…
They were inseparable.
Then one day…
The image darkened.
The Creator appeared.
He looked much younger.
He smiled warmly at the two boys.
He treated them like sons.
Ethan frowned.
“He raised us?”
Kai nodded.
“He raised both of you.”
The next scene appeared.
The Creator stood before two teenage boys.
He held out a silver crown.
“There can only be one Successor.”
Erebos looked away.
“I refused to fight.”
The image showed Ethan refusing as well.
The Creator smiled.
Then…
Without warning…
He attacked.
The brothers defended each other instead of fighting each other.
Kai whispered,
“I remember reading this…”
The image suddenly shattered.
Everything after that became blurred.
Erebos clenched his fists.
“I don’t remember what happened next.”
“The Creator erased my memories.”
“He erased Ethan’s too.”
Silence.
The Hall itself seemed to react.
The mirrors began glowing.
One by one…
They projected fragments of missing memories.
Ethan saw himself and Erebos standing before the Legacy Core.
Both reaching toward it.
Then…
A blinding explosion.
A scream.
The Creator shouting.
The memories vanished before the ending could be seen.
Ethan held his head.
“It hurts…”
His Legacy Core pulsed violently.
The system’s voice echoed inside him.
Memory Lock Detected.
Original Memory Fragments Found.
Unlock?
Before Ethan could answer…
A slow clap echoed through the Hall.
Everyone turned.
A man stepped from the shadows.
He wore a long white coat.
His face was hidden beneath a silver mask.
Kai’s expression changed instantly.
“No…”
“It can’t be.”
The masked man removed the mask.
It was the Creator.
Not a projection.
Not a voice.
The real Creator.
Standing inside Vault XIII.
He looked at Ethan with gentle eyes.
Then smiled.
“Welcome home…”
“My children.”
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