Chapter 85: Beyond the Origin
The Eternal Empire of Twilight thrived in perfect harmony gods, dragons, and mortals united under one unshakable will. Yet Hayden stood silent atop the Throne of Infinity, eyes fixed on a horizon beyond even the multiverse.
He had felt it a whisper in the void. Something older than the first flame, deeper than the abyss. The origin of all creation.
Selene approached quietly. "You sense it too, don't you?"
Hayden nodded. "The beginning before beginnings. The place even existence fears to remember."
The air rippled as he rose from his throne. His shadow dragons bowed their heads, their wings spanning across realities.
"Guard the Empire," he commanded. "I will return when even eternity bends."
With that, he vanished.
Space shattered, time screamed, and Hayden stepped through dimensions older than thought. He passed through universes unborn, where stars had yet to learn to burn. Beyond that was only silence a void with no end, no shape, no memory.
Then he saw them.
The Creators.
Beings vast beyond imagination, their forms made of concepts themselves Destiny, Chaos, Infinity, and Null. Each one a pillar of the first existence, long before gods, systems, or realms had names.
They turned toward him, their voices merging into one colossal echo:
"You are not meant to be here, Monarch of Twilight."
Hayden smiled faintly. "Then why am I here?"
The concept of Infinity rippled. "Because even creation has boundaries. You should not exist beyond them."
"Then I'll make new ones," Hayden said simply.
With a single motion, his shadow surged outward swallowing the lightless void. His aura ignited with the power of Genesis Authority, bending the essence of existence itself.
The Creators moved to resist. Chaos erupted into storms of paradox. Destiny tried to weave his end. Infinity tried to erase his name.
But Hayden stepped forward, unshaken.
"Time Authority Absolute Rewrite."
The very laws of the void bent backward. Chaos' storms froze. Infinity's endless loop shattered. Destiny's threads snapped one by one.
The Creators faltered. For the first time in eternity, they felt something alien fear.
Then his shadow dragons appeared beings of endless night, their wings stretching across creation's skeleton. They roared with divine harmony as Hayden raised his hand.
"Submit," he said. "Or fade into my shadow forever."
One by one, the Creators knelt. Chaos was the first to fall, his form consumed and reborn as Shadow Chaos, guardian of Hayden's will. Destiny followed, rewritten as Eternal Fate, now serving as Hayden's left hand. Infinity bowed last, whispering, "You have become that which even we could not define."
Hayden touched the void beneath them. His energy reshaped it, giving birth to something entirely new a realm even beyond creation.
[New Realm Established: The Origin Sanctum]
[Rule: None Stand Above The Architect]
Light and shadow intertwined as the void transformed into a new existence. Hayden stood at its center, his body radiating both the beginning and end of all things.
Selene appeared beside him, drawn across universes by his power. "You… changed everything again."
He looked at her, eyes glowing like newborn galaxies. "I didn't change it," he said softly. "I perfected it."
The System, now completely one with his soul, spoke a final time not as a tool, but as acknowledgment:
[Final Authority Achieved: Omni-Genesis]
[Power: Infinite Creation and Control Beyond All Logic]
[Title Updated: Hayden, The True Architect of Reality]
Every universe, god, and realm bowed in unity. Hayden raised his hand, and the multiverse responded in chorus.
Creation had ended.
Rebirth had begun.
The Infinite Era evolved into something greater the Omni Era, where even the concept of limits ceased to exist.
Hayden, the Eternal Architect, looked into the endless horizon of his new creation and whispered:
"Now, let's see what lies beyond forever."