Through their connection, Elara felt her Empress's struggle and pushed herself beyond exhaustion once more. "I believe in you," she whispered, her voice carrying across the domain through their shared blessing. "Use everything we have. Take my strength, my life if necessary, just don't let that thing escape."
But even their combined power wasn't enough. The Sun Empress could wound chaos, could contain it temporarily, but she could not unmake something that existed in eternal opposition to the very concept of creation.
The fragment began to pulse with increasing intensity, each beat threatening to tear larger holes in the fabric of reality itself. Soon, it would reach critical mass, and when that happened, not even her Reality Domain would be sufficient to contain the resulting catastrophe.
I need, she realized with growing desperation, something that can consume impossibility itself. Something that exists outside normal classifications of power.
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