The Sovereign's colossal void tendril speared forth, a Judgement Lance of void lattice moving with the calculated certainty of a Light Cone—relativistic speed closing the gap in mere seconds. Elara slammed the controls, her Eclipse Grasp surging, weaving Dark Energy Lensing to warp the local space around the hull, bending the spear's path like a distorted light ray.
Kairo's Solar Sovereign Dragons interposed, their Entropy Blades unraveling lattice strands into dissipating wisps, but the spear pressed on. Elara focused her Unmade Echo, whispering the Sovereign's own taunts back at him, laced with Prime Dissonance: "Your anvil cracks, unmaker—hammer falls on empty forge." The echoes generated a fierce harmonic revolt within the tendril, forcing it to violently veer and graze the craft before recoiling.
The Sovereign immediately shifted tactics, initiating a system-scale collapse. The entire nebula began to contract—a calculated unmaking implosion threatening to drag the fleet and the nine realms into oblivion.
Elara felt the shift. Her core surged, the last remnants of the void numbness fully inverting. Eclipse Grasp evolved into Anvil Echo—the ability to generate system-scale, multiplied strikes via entanglement.
Elara to Prime Conductor Stage: Unlocked Anvil Echo.
But before she could prime the massive weave, a spectral Lord Remnant—a fragment of the Sovereign's unmade self—latched onto Kairo's shadow. It whispered a lethal emotional hook: "Dragon-blood, your harmony chains you—unmake with me, claim the void's freedom."
Kairo's form flickered, eyes widening. He was locked in a duel of will, frozen between harmony and chaos.
Elara knew she had no time. She spun toward Kairo, focusing her newest, most terrifying power—Causal Inversion—on the remnant. She didn't attack Kairo's paralysis; she reversed the cause.
"Your lie ends now."
Elara fired a targeted Causal Inversion beam, derived from the Prime, directly at the spectral remnant. The beam struck, and the remnant's existence was reversed: the fracture that created it was instantly sealed, unraveling the unmade Lord back into stable qi.
Kairo gasped, the paralysis broken. He was free, his eyes now fixed on Elara with awe. "That power... you didn't just kill it, you unmade it," he murmured.
"No more distractions," Elara said, turning back to the contracting nebula, her eyes—now the deep obsidian of the fully realized Prime—fixed on the Sovereign's fracturing form.
With Kairo and Lira supporting from the rear, Elara extended her Anvil Echo across the vast expanse. She would not just stop the implosion; she would turn the Sovereign's power against itself, forging a new equilibrium for the Aetherforge. The Prime Conductor was ready to execute the final equation.