When the ancient seals that had kept the Academy suspended in the heavens for a millennium began to fracture, the tremor was felt not just in the stone walls but in the very souls of every mage within; Lyenne and Eren stood at the epicenter of the seal chamber, intoxicated by an archaic power, while High Mage Varken looked down from his crystal tower to see the wards shifting from a serene blue to the uncanny purple-black of Kaelen's intent. As Varken struck his staff against the floor, tolling the "Execution Call" bells that had remained silent for a thousand years, the senior professors and elite guards stormed toward the chamber, only to be met by a phalanx of student disciples whom Lyenne had secretly poisoned with the magic of intent—youths who now bypassed sigils entirely to unleash raw, destructive energy. A violent civil war erupted in the corridors between the traditionalists and the intentionalists, and as Varken blasted open the heavy doors of the seal chamber with an ancient key, he found Lyenne suspended amidst the floating wards, holding Eren's hand with the pride of a dark goddess. To Varken's roar that her actions were an insult to the fabric of the universe, Lyenne responded in a voice like a thousand souls whispering at once, claiming their old magic was merely a cage and they were finally opening the door. Four master mages joined hands to cast the "Time Lock" sigil, weaving golden chains to freeze the room in temporal stasis, but the ancient master Kaelen fully awakened within Eren and shattered the chains to dust with a single spoken command: "Enough." With that word, the final seal holding the Academy aloft was obliterated, and the massive rock mass surrendered to gravity, plummeting like a meteor through the clouds toward the unsuspecting kingdoms below; as the sky ignited with purple flames seconds before the world-shattering impact, Kaelen looked into Varken's terrified eyes and declared that the old world would die with this fall, and upon its ashes, they would build a new reality governed by intent alone.
