Beneath the shattered veil of the Citadel's revelation, tremors echoed through the deep Leylines of Creation. Where most eyes saw Zeirion's path as conquest, the world itself knew differently—it remembered.
And so did they.
Far beyond the boundaries of mortal dominion, hidden in the roots of the Worldtree Vael'Sharan, a vault long sealed began to stir.
Not a prison.
A pact.
The First Pact, forged at the Dawn of Realms by the Nine Origin Wills—those primordial forces older than gods, older even than time's first breath—was unraveling. It had been made in fear. In reverence. In surrender.
It had been made… to bind Him.
And now, with each step Zeirion took, that pact frayed.
Deep within Vael'Sharan's heartwood chamber, a conclave of ancient beings stirred. They were not kings or creatures—they were concepts. The Curator of Silence, the Architect of Hunger, the Weaver of Fracture. They had no names left, only functions. And they watched Zeirion's resurgence with awe and fury alike.
"The Sovereign has returned," murmured the Curator, her voice a soundless weeping.
"The Pact was clear," growled the Architect.
"He was not to rise until the End-Sky cracked."
"The End-Sky is cracking," replied the Weaver, whose every word stitched futures into ruin. "And we are late."
Meanwhile, Zeirion and Aralya had descended into the Mirrorvale—a plane that reflected not light, but destiny.
Every step Zeirion took mirrored not his past, but every possible future he could create or destroy. Infinite versions of himself flickered across the rippling ground: tyrant, martyr, savior, god.
Aralya walked behind him, her gaze fixed upon only one version—the one before her now.
"You know where we go," she said.
"Yes," Zeirion answered.
"The Pact must break."
He stopped at the vale's edge, where the veil between truth and myth shimmered like heat above dying sands. Before them stood the Obsidian Gate—a relic formed from the fused regrets of the first civilizations.
It did not open for power.
It opened only for legacy.
Zeirion stepped forward. "I come not to conquer," he said, his voice not loud, but infinite. "I come to end what should never have been allowed to begin."
And the Gate... opened.
Inside was not darkness, nor light, but a realm of Origin Memory—the shared cradle of all things.
There, entombed within a cocoon of unbroken starlight, floated the Pact Sigil, still beating with ancient fear. It pulsed like a chained heart, forged from the vows of those who once feared Zeirion's reign would undo reality itself.
Aralya placed a hand on it. "It still believes you're a monster."
Zeirion raised his palm. Eclipsion flared in answer. "Then it will learn."
He struck.
Not in rage. Not in hatred.
But in sovereignty.
The Sigil shattered.
A scream rippled through every world, every dimension. The First Pact—older than divinity, deeper than death—was no more.
And far, far away, upon a dying moon locked in eternal eclipse… something stirred in response.
Eyes opened.
A cage rusted.
And from within the forgotten tomb of an ancient era, She awakened.
The one who was never supposed to meet Zeirion again.
The one they all feared far more than the Sovereign himself.
The world began to shake.
Not from war.
But from destiny.
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