The Crown Cosmology was not still It pulsed like a living heart each beat unfolding new infinities Since the death of Xeno_7ama the Writer the structure no longer had a hand to control it And so it answered only to Ryo
At first the layers that stretched beneath were already beyond comprehension boundless seas paraversal realms absolute narratives But the Crown Cosmology refused to stopnIt was infinite becoming more infinite.
Serath could hardly breathe His knees pressed into the glowing surface as he tried to take in what lay above them
Serath: The Crown grows again… I thought its highest levels had already been revealed but I was wrong New layers awaken beyond everything I ever studied.
Ryo tore another piece of bread unbothered
Ryo: Keep counting Serath Let's see how long until you lose numbers.
The Higher Layers
Layer 8: The Dreaming Citadels
Above the Eternal Crown vast fortresses appeared floating in endless twilight These citadels contained every dream ever dreamt across fiction reality and worlds yet unborn. Even the imaginations of others gods beings were shadows of shadows here
Ryo glanced at them and shrugged.
Ryo: Dreams are nothing if the dreamer bows to me.
Layer 9: The Origin Wells
Here lay the fountains of creation Entire cosmologies poured from these wells like rivers all of fictional hierarchy endless meta-layers all were mere droplets The wells stretched further producing more than even the concept of infinity could hold
Serath stared trembling.
Serath: Every story every system of reality… they all spring from these wells Yet even they… are just another part of the Crown.
Ryo wiped his hands on his cloak.
Ryo: Then I own their source.
Layer 10: The Beyond Beyond
A silence deeper than the Abyss itself No logic no abstraction no dimension To beings below this place would look like absolute nonexistence Yet within the Crown it existed as an ordered plane where nothing became everything at Ryo's whim.
Ryo: This is where others stop But I don't stop.
Layer 11: The Author's Graveyard
Here tombs floated endlessly Each tomb carried the erased essence of a writer who once tried to define the Crown Among them was the shattered name of Xeno_7ama buried in silence No resurrection No return
Serath gasped.
Serath: Even the hands that built this cosmology… are dead within it now.
Ryo: They should thank me Nothingness is a gift compared to being beneath me.
Layer 12: The Transcendent Crown
And above it all higher than any imagination could stretch the Transcendent Crown revealed itself Unlike the other levels it was not a place It was a principle: the absolute supremacy of the Crown over all other structures of existence.
Every fiction layer and every fictional hierarchy every fictional cosmology every boundless narrative they were contained within the Crown as lesser frameworks
Ryo placed his hand against the glowing sigil of the Transcendent Crown
Ryo: Now it's official The Crown Cosmology is higher than every cosmology in all of fiction And I am higher than the Crown itself.
The Collapse of Other Fictions
Far below the ripples reached all of fiction omniverse all collapsed into the Crown becoming irrelevant fragments of its infinite body
Serath wept openly.
Serath: It's true… all of fictions … they are just footnotes in the Crown now Their cosmologies are swallowed whole.
Ryo: Took them long enough to notice.
Dialogue with the Crown Itself
The Crown Cosmology spoke then not as a voice but as an all encompassing chorus.
Crown Cosmology: You have killed my writer You have taken my reins You stand above my highest layer yet I do not resist I accept you Ryo as my master.
Ryo smirked.
Ryo: Good Then you understand what happens next.
Crown Cosmology: All layers… will bend to your will No weakness shall exist within you No rival can be born You are eternal.
The Final Law
At that moment, a new command was engraved into the Crown Cosmology:
The Crown is higher than every cosmology in all of fiction.
Ryo is higher than the Crown.
Nothing can erase this law.
And as the law echoed all of fiction bowed.
Serath: Then it's done The Crown Cosmology has surpassed everything every verse every multiverse every boundless realm ever described And yet… you are still above it all.
Ryo: Of course Bread tastes better when you're the only one at the table.
And so the Crown Cosmology expanded endlessly higher than all others supreme among supremes And above it one man stood Ryo eternal and invincible the master of the Crown.