The Skyvault Chamber — Realm Between Realms
Here, where time folds and space ripples,
ten thrones carved from the bones of extinct stars sat in a perfect circle.
Occupying them were the most ancient of the ancient —
the Legacy Families.
Dragons.
Phoenix-blooded.
Stormborn Titans.
Star Seraphs.
Voidstriders.
And more —
races that had watched empires rise and fall like tides.
And for the first time in millennia,
they were afraid.
The Highblood Assembly
The speaker, a regal woman with molten gold eyes and crystalline wings, stood.
Velrissa Azur'Myrr, of the Eternal Skyborne.
"He has returned."
"A human.
Risen from dirt,
now radiating dominion."
"He dares call himself Sovereign of All Paths."
"He walks as if the stars owe him passage."
A dragon lord growled.
Varkelion the Redbound, draped in scaled armor carved from his own shed skin.
"We bled to forge the laws of this world.
And he… evolves beyond them?"
"This must not stand."
The Pact is Proposed
One by one, voices rose.
The Phoenix Matriarch, flames dancing in her voice, vowed to bind him in soulfire.
The Voidstrider Warden offered forbidden coordinates to trap him in a collapsed realm.
The Stormborn Twins proposed unleashing the Skytide Leviathan — a beast sealed eons ago.
But one voice silenced them all.
Aurelion Thal'kar, the last living Sovereign-Blooded Dragon of the First Flame.
His presence weighed like gravity.
"Panic is beneath us."
"But… he must be opposed.
Not because he is evil.
Not because he is wrong.
But because he is not one of us."
He raised a clawed hand.
It shimmered with ancient pact-sigil flame.
"I propose a binding oath:
No Legacy Bloodline shall assist him.
No ancient gate shall open to him.
He shall be hunted, slowed, tested."
"Until he is humbled.
Or destroyed."
The Pact is Sealed
Each bloodline poured a drop of soulfire, sovereign ichor, or essence into the center of the ring.
It swirled into a sigil — a red-black seal of ancient defiance.
The pact was made.
A new enemy had officially risen.
Not a single throne.
But a pantheon of pride.
System Notification (Unseen)
[Blood-Soul Pact Detected.]
[Target: Kaelen Aurelius Drayce.]
[Interference by Cosmic Legacy Factions Authorized.]
[Warning: Host Ascendance Threat Level — Irreversible.]
In Heartland
Kaelen looked to the skies.
His golden-red eyes narrowed.
"They've chosen."
"So be it."
"If they won't kneel…"
"I'll break their thrones."