Everything went dark.
Not the peaceful kind of darkness you slip into after a good fuck and a bottle of wine—this was the crushing, absolute void that comes right before death. My consciousness floated in nothingness, feeling my body dissolve grain by grain as the Abyssal Demon Realm collapsed around me and that ancient bastard.
'Well, this is it,' I thought, strangely calm about the whole thing. 'At least I went out saving my women instead of choking on my own vomit in some palace dungeon.'
That's when the notifications started.
[SYSTEM EMERGENCY PROTOCOL ACTIVATED]
[HOST DEATH IMMINENT - INITIATING FINAL REVELATION SEQUENCE]
[WARNING: DIMENSIONAL COLLAPSE DETECTED - ACTIVATING NARRATIVE RESET]
Blue screens exploded across my fading vision like fireworks, each one more impossible than the last. But it was the next message that made me laugh—actually fucking laugh—as my soul prepared to scatter into cosmic dust.
