Heaven bled.
Not with crimson, but with fractured light—shards of divine code raining like glass across the infinite sky.
Darius stood alone on the threshold of the Shattered Heavens, a fractured realm where time obeyed no rhythm and gravity had forgotten itself. The gateway had split open after Threnis, the God of Broken Endings, unleashed his first divine incursion. Nexus alarms had failed. System messages now came in stuttering loops. The very code of reality writhed beneath Darius's feet.
"Unstable timeline detected. Reversion in: 0:00:00…"
Again.
And again.
And again.
He took a breath, and the world reset.
[Loop 1: The First Fall]
Celestia's scream echoed from the void-blasted sky as Threnis's blackened spear impaled her mid-air.
"Darius, run—!"
Too late. Too slow. Time folded in on itself.
Reset.
[Loop 29: The Cracked Faith]
Nyx wept.