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When Adam regained consciousness, there was no ground beneath his feet.
He was floating in a gray expanse, filled with suspended shards of glass, each one reflecting a different scene:
A crying child… A monster being born from shadow… A woman lighting a candle in a graveyard…
He saw his grandmother in one of the shards, laughing with a faceless figure.
Adam moved slowly, feeling as if his feet were moving through a heavy dream.
He touched one of the shards, and suddenly it opened, pulling him inside.
He awoke in a narrow room, its walls made of glass from which blood dripped.
He was alone... or so he thought, until he heard a faint moan.
He turned and saw a small child, bound by the hands, trembling in the corner of the room.
Adam cautiously approached and asked:
– "Who are you?"
The child raised its head, and on its forehead was the same seal he had seen on his grandmother.
The child whispered:
– "I... am you. Before you were created."
Adam stepped back, his eyes widening in shock.
– "What do you mean?"
The child replied:
– "This is the world before Nimora… this is where chosen souls are formed. We are born carrying the keys, but we do not know that until we awaken."
Then, in a hushed voice, the child added:
– "And they will try to erase us... before we become what we are."
Suddenly, the glass trembled, and blood began to rise from the walls.
The child screamed:
– "They've found us!"
Creatures formed from glass and blood, their eyes like open cracks in the darkness, emerged.
Laboubo shouted from the glowing pendant in Adam's hand:
– "Use your legacy! Speak with your soul, don't be afraid!"
Adam closed his eyes... and remembered everything he had lived: his grandmother's voice, the battle with Nifal, the stillness of the forest, the bleeding gate.
He opened his eyes and extended his hand forward.
From the palm of his hand, a white light emerged, not pure, but scarred, as if it were a light that had lived through suffering.
The light struck the glass... and the creatures began to scream and dissolve.
Adam ran toward the child and freed him. The child said:
– "The next gate is not a gate. It is you."
Before he could open his eyes again, he heard only one voice:
– "When you know who you are… you will not fear what you will become."
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