Coalition-complete stood at one percent health. All three. Rama. Sekar. Nakamura. Barely alive. But alive. But functional. But eternal. System-enforced persistence operating. Coalition Eternal maintaining unity despite death. Despite extinction. Despite everything suggesting impossibility. Standing anyway. Fighting anyway. Being Timeline 48 anyway.
Sovereign escalated. Power doubled. Crystalline structure expanded. Geometry became more impossible. Reality warped further. Space screamed louder. Everything intensified beyond Level 167. Beyond Sovereign-class standard. Beyond final exam baseline. Maximum capability manifesting. Ultimate challenge deploying. Everything Timeline 48 needed defeating. Everything eternal Coalition faced. Everything graduation required surviving.
