Chapter 150
Author: Perfect Pen
last update2025-04-27 15:31:26

The world was ending again.

Not with screams.

Not with violence.

But with silence.

A deep, aching silence that swallowed everything it touched.

The Core split wide open, like a wound too deep to heal.

Cracks raced across the ground, splitting the ancient stone.

Timelines—thousands, millions of them—collapsed into each other, folding in on themselves like dying stars.

Colors bled from the sky.

The ground shook under Kael’s feet.

And still, he stood.

In the center of it all.

In the center of the ruin he had chosen.

The Architect’s form flickered in front of him.

Once a towering figure of strength and control, it was now crumbling—breaking apart at the seams.

Memory shards peeled off his body, floating like dying embers into the empty void around them.

“No,” the Architect rasped, voice splintering.

“No, this is wrong. We were supposed to be one.”

Kael said nothing at first.

He just stared.

Tired.

Unflinching.

The golden light in his veins still burned, searing through every twisted lie t
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