The Arcwheel spun faster than ever before—its edges ablaze with the light of three commandments. Each segment pulsed with a wordless power that now echoed through the fractured layers of existence. Belarion stood atop the Worldspire, the tallest peak in all the known realms, where the laws of reality were thin and malleable.
System Alert:
Arcwheel Fully Synchronized
Rewrite Directive Possible
Rewrite Target: [Cosmic Layer – Primordial Script Level]
Warning: Rewrite Action May Trigger Existential Conflict With Class: INITIATOR Entity
The stars dimmed. Not from clouds or distance, but in anticipation. Something ancient was watching.
Kaelira, standing beside him, whispered, "They're afraid of what you can do now."
He didn't answer. He was already reaching forward.
He invoked the Arcwheel.
Skill Activated: Dominion Rewrite
Target: Fate-Lattice of the Ninefold Cosmos
Action: Redefine 'Power' As 'Choice'
The sky shattered.
The Arrival of the Initiator
From the void behind all things came the Initiator—a being that had no name, no shape, only endless presence. It descended like a concept collapsing onto reality. Everything screamed: air, time, even thought. Kaelira dropped to her knees, bleeding from her ears. The ground cracked, burned, aged, and then was born anew beneath the entity's every step.
Belarion alone stood upright. The Arcwheel flared in defiance.
"You presume to write over me," the Initiator thundered.
"No," Belarion said. "I presume to write for us."
The Initiator's wrath took form—an army of rewritten worlds, each one twisted by paradox and intent. Belarion responded with a paradox of his own: a storm of remembered futures and forgotten presents.
System Combat Protocol Engaged
Reality Class Engagement: Divine Rewrite Tier
Conditions: Variable and Unstable
The Worldspire became the battlefield of realities. Everything they had gathered came to bear: the Silence that nullified divine speech, the Forgotten that unraveled eternal memory, and the Unwritten that redefined impossibility.
The war wasn't fought in moments, but in decisions.
Allies from Beyond
Just as the Arcwheel began to strain, help arrived. The Oracle Queen returned, flanked by the Survivors of the Lost Pantheon. Ancient beings long erased from the histories now wielded belief like swords.
Kaelira rallied the mortals below. "Every choice you've made brought you here! Use it!"
The realm quaked as mortals began to manifest Rewrite echoes—small domains where their will could temporarily bend reality.
The Initiator began to lose ground.
Reality Anchor Stabilizing…
Rewrite Progress: 73%
Belarion's voice rang out.
"Power belongs not to fate, nor to gods, but to those who choose."
He reached into the Arcwheel and pulled forth the final Rewrite.
Final Directive: The Will of Dominion
Define Reality's Core Law As: "That which is chosen, is real."
With that, the world exploded—not in destruction, but in becoming.
The End of the Rewrite War
The Initiator faded, not in defeat, but in understanding. It bowed—a ripple that unmade galaxies—and vanished.
Belarion collapsed to one knee. The Arcwheel, spent and dim, floated beside him.
System Update:
Rewrite Directive Complete
New Core Principle Established
Authority: Belarion, The Dominion-Bearer
Kaelira took his hand. "What now?"
He looked up at a sky that had rewritten itself into gold.
"Now, we build."
Next: Chapter 20 – Foundations of the Chosen World