Years later, as Kael lay beneath an open sky, he reflected on the question that had haunted the world for generations:
Would he be the hero who saved the world forever?
Or the demon who destroyed it?
He smiled faintly.
The world had survived not because of what he consumed,
but because of what he refused to.
Humanity endured not through divinity,
but through choice.
And that, Kael decided as his eyes closed,
was enough.