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CHAPTER 97: DEATH IS A DOOR
### Chapter 97: Death is a DoorThe cold was the first thing to go. Then the pain. The sensation of my father’s golden blade twisting in my ribs dissolved into a numb, weightless suspension. I wasn't falling anymore. I was simply *there*, in the center of a pressurized nothingness that felt more like a lung than a vacuum."Is this it?" I shouted. My voice didn't echo. It was swallowed by the dark. "The great deletion? The final edit?""You always did talk too much during chores, Cassian."The voice hit me like a physical punch to the gut. I spun around, my feet finding purchase on a floor that wasn't there.The darkness peeled back. I wasn't in a void anymore. I was standing in the center of the Thorne Clan courtyard. The smell of cedar and honeysuckle was so thick it made my throat ache. And there, standing by the training posts, were the people I had buried in my nightmares for a decade."Uncle? Jace?" I whispered. My hands were shaking. I looked down and saw the hole in my chest—it
CHAPTER 96: THE SACRIFICE
The world was screaming, but the sound was muffled by the thick, violet soup of the planet’s failing immune system. I stood at the edge of the abyss, my boots slipping on the slick, oily sludge that used to be the Gilded Capital. Before me, my father—or the creature that wore his skin—held Elena by the throat. Her feet dangled over the churning tectonic rift. One twitch of his fingers and she would be processed into raw mana."Choose, Cassian!" my father roared, his voice a distorted harmony of golden divinity and planetary rot. "The Sword is in your hand! Strike me now, and you stop the Reset! You kill the Author and save the world! But she drops. She dies as a footnote in your glorious revolution!""Let her go, you coward!" I snarled, the Sword of Nothing vibrating so hard my fingers were bleeding."Coward?" He laughed, a high, thin sound that made my teeth ache. "I am the Architect of your existence! I gave you the Void so you could be the ultimate Janitor! Now, do your job! Clean
CHAPTER 95: THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS
The blade didn’t just penetrate the dirt; it pierced the world’s skin. As the Sword of Nothing sank into the ley-line junction, the ground beneath the Gilded Capital didn’t shake—it screamed. A soundless, tectonic vibration rippled through the soles of my boots, traveling up my spine until my skull felt like it was being hammered from the inside."Cassian, stop!" my father shrieked, his voice finally losing its divine resonance and cracking like a terrified child's. "You’re injecting the Void into the nervous system! You're poisoning the Source!""I’m not poisoning it," I grunted, my teeth grinding so hard I tasted bone. "I'm giving it a memory."I flooded the hilt with every jagged, messy piece of my soul. I gave the planet the smell of Lia’s hair after a rainstorm. I gave it the blistering heat of the forge where Mallow worked. I gave it the crushing, silent weight of every Dross who had died in the gutters while the Stars drank starlight. I forced the planet’s immune system to look
CHAPTER 94: THE IMMUNE RESPONSE
The Moon was no longer a sphere; it was a shattered jaw hanging open in the sky. As the violet giant detonated, the vacuum of space didn't go dark—it turned into a kaleidoscope of screaming colors. I wasn't flying; I was falling through a hailstorm of lunar mantle and divine static.*Slap!*A chunk of moon-rock the size of a city block clipped my shoulder, spinning me into a terminal dive. Beside me, my father was a streak of dying gold, his robes tattered and his "Author" mask finally shattered into a thousand jagged pieces of ego."You've done it now, Cassian!" he shrieked into my mind, his mental voice cracking like dry parchment. "You didn't just break the seal—you gave the planet a fever! The immune system isn't purging the infection anymore; it's burning the whole body to kill the germs!""Then let it burn!" I ROARED BACK.We punched through the atmosphere. The friction turned the air into a wall of fire. Below us, the Ash-Lands weren't just grey anymore. They were bubbling. The
CHAPTER 93: THE ANTIBODY'S REBELLION
The vacuum of the lunar graveyard was no longer silent; it hummed with the frequency of a dying god. Standing before me was the **[APOTHEOSIS OF THE VOID]**—a towering, translucent titan of violet entropy that wore my face like a death mask. It was the planet’s ultimate answer to my existence. If I was a rogue antibody, this was the absolute cure."Look at it, Cassian!" my father’s voice echoed, his golden form shimmering at the edge of the violet giant’s aura. "It is the perfect reflection of your power, stripped of your pathetic human 'mess.' It doesn't love. It doesn't regret. It only purges!""It’s just another big shadow," I rasped, my throat feeling like it was lined with broken glass.I didn't wait for the giant to move. I launched myself forward, my body a streak of silver-black light. I didn't aim for the head; I aimed for the heart of the entropy.*Slap!*I struck the giant’s chest. The impact didn't feel like hitting matter; it felt like hitting a wall of solidified "No." M
CHAPTER 92: THE PLANET'S WHITE CELLS
The vacuum of space was no longer empty. It was thick with the violet bile of a wounded celestial body. As the moon’s crust drifted apart in jagged, continent-sized shards, the core—a swirling vortex of raw, unrefined entropy—spilled into the void. This wasn't the "Void" I had mastered; this was the source. This was the primordial hunger of Aethelgard itself.I dived into the violet mist, my skin screaming as the radiation stripped the top layers of my cells. I wasn't just breathing in the darkness; I was letting it dissolve the boundaries of my physical form."Cassian, stop!" Mallow’s voice was a frantic, staticky pulse in my mind-scape. "The energy reading... it’s not a mana spike! It’s a biological rejection! You’re trying to swallow the planet’s white blood cells! You'll be the first thing they digest!""If I don't anchor this mass, the gravity shift will rip the atmosphere off the Capital!" I roared back, my thoughts echoing through the psychic link. "I’m the only container left!
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