Seven days ago, the Law World Tournament concluded.
The first day was brutal, yet only seven remained standing—champions carved by law and flame, blood and will. The second day crowned the victor: Ashker Veyn, who stood unchallenged in the finals, his mastery of Destruction and Renewal undeniable.
Kai, seated above the arena on his divine dais, raised his hand.
Six of the champions bowed before him, chosen as rulers of the Six Law Worlds, each bound to a law they had embodied. Ashker Veyn was raised higher still, named the Emperor of the Six Laws, sovereign of the realms forged within Kai's Origin.
The Law Worlds trembled as their rulers were anointed. A new age had begun.
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Now.
Inside the Divine Palace, a throne carved of star-iron and flowing law-energy, Kai sat in silence. His golden eyes gleamed with a stillness that seemed endless, yet troubled.
"Ema." His voice rolled through the hall like quiet thunder.
The spirit of his system appeared before him, her presence serene, her silver eyes steady.
Kai leaned back against the throne, exhaling. "I am… changing. Right?"
Ema smiled faintly, her expression unreadable. "I was wondering when you'd notice."
Kai chuckled, but there was no amusement in it. "I noticed the day I awakened my bloodline. At first, I wasn't sure. But when I unsealed 0.111% recently… it became undeniable."
He clenched his fist, the throne groaning as laws bent around his knuckles. "I've started to grow proud. The me of the past would have kept his head down. I would have joined the Silver Family quietly, lived in their shadow, hidden my strength. But now… I create myths instead. I declare emperors. I sit on a throne."
His gaze turned sharp, dangerous. "And I know, if I wished, I could erase Earth. Perhaps even the entire solar system. Yet I've never tested myself in the wider cosmos. And still—" he hesitated, "—I've begun to look down on humans. I don't want to become… some egoist."
Ema waved her hand, and a mirror of flowing lawlight formed before Kai.
"Look at yourself."
Kai did. Reflected back was a figure towering 6.7 feet, his frame broad, his aura oppressive even when suppressed. His eyes glowed like suns behind stormclouds, his features chiseled with an unnatural symmetry. He was sixteen years old, and yet he looked nothing like a human child.
"You are no longer human, Kai," Ema said softly. (You never truly were, to begin with, she thought, but kept silent.)
Kai's lips pressed into a line.
"Calm yourself," she continued. "It has been only one week since your life changed. One week from orphan, hidden in a world of ordinary mortals… to Origin Creator, caretaker of a universe. Now you dwell in a reality where awakened humans—who can erase continents—rule from the shadows. Of course it feels… climactic. Overwhelming."
Her voice softened. "Confide in me. That's why I'm here."
Kai's hand dropped from the mirror. His eyes dimmed. "…Then why do I look down on them? Why do I feel like they're beneath me?"
Ema's gaze turned ancient. "when you unsealed your bloodline, I awakened a fragment of its inheritance knowledge. And I learned what you are. Your bloodline… Kai… is beyond comprehension."
Kai stiffened. "…Beyond?"
"On an omniversal scale," she said carefully, "it eclipses the highest of all known bloodlines. The most powerful clans, even the seraphim, even the primordial dragons—they do not compare. As for Earth's human bloodline…"
Her silver eyes darkened. "It ranks among the lowest. The weakest strand of existence in this universe. If not for the system's seals, if not for its concealment, your bloodline pressure alone would have shattered the will of the universe itself."
Kai's pupils contracted.
Ema stepped closer, her voice like a knife cutting truth into flesh. "The more you unseal your bloodline, the more you will see lesser beings as you see insects. Just as Earth's humans do not place themselves on the same level as ants… neither will your bloodline allow you to view Earth's humans as equals. They are simply not on the same existential tier."
Kai exhaled slowly. The truth weighed on him, heavy as eternity.
Ema's hand touched the mirror, and it dissolved. Her words, however, remained.
"Do not resist what you are. Do not chain yourself by comparison to humans. Embrace what you are, Kai. Not human. Not awakened. Not Sovereign. But something far beyond."
Kai closed his eyes. His throne pulsed with living light.
And in that silence, he wondered:
If he embraced himself fully… what would remain of the boy who once walked Earth as nothing but a fragile orphan?.