Samuel's POV
I stood on the edge of reality, the last Godcore throbbing in my hand. The world had reassembled around me—towering peaks of obsidian, shattered ruins of forgotten kingdoms, and a sky bruised with twilight.
"System," I said, voice still echoing with power, "open my status window."
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[System Status Window – Updated]
Name: Samuel Gebb
Titles: Harbinger of Destruction · Void-Walker · Trial Challenger · Monarch of Echoing Desolation
Race: Transcendent Evolved Human
Level: 500
Class: Chaosblade (Ascended Supreme)
Affinities: Void (MAX) · Shadow (MAX) · Flame (MAX) · Astral (MAX)
Realm Access: All Known Realms · Secret Archives · Forgotten Pantheon
Stat Allocation:
Strength: ★★★★★★★★★★
Agility: ★★★★★★★★★★
Endurance: ★★★★★★★★★★
Intelligence: ★★★★★★★★★★
Void Affinity: ★★★★★★★★★★
Willpower: ★★★★★★★★★★
Skills:
– Voidstep (Mastered)
– Astral Rend (Mythic)
– Blade Tempest – Chaos Variant (Mythic)
– Devourer's Pulse (Mythic)
– Reality Sever (Awakened)
– Soul Echo: Wrathforge (Legendary)
– Sovereign's Command (Legendary)
– Sandstorm's Wrath (Legendary)
– Fangfire Overdrive (Legendary)
– Unbroken Form (Passive – Mythic)
– Crownbearer's Dominion (Ultimate)
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I let out a slow breath, fingers brushing the sash where the five Godcores rested.
"Let's go find something else worth my time."
The air shimmered ahead, the remnants of the final battle still pulsing faintly in the atmosphere. Then the world trembled—an unseen ripple folding space—and a notification blinked to life before my eyes.
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[System Notification – New Realm Discovered]
Name: The Veiled Expanse
Threat Level: Unknown – Classified Beyond Mythic
Description: A realm lost to time and memory, where forgotten legends and ancient powers lie dormant. Exploration and conquest may yield unprecedented rewards… or unimaginable peril.
Unlock Condition: Ascension as Monarch of Echoing Desolation completed.
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My pulse quickened. The final battle was only the beginning.
I tightened my grip on the Godcores, the weight of forgotten divinity humming through me. This new frontier promised more than power — it promised the next chapter in a story only I could write.
With a confident step forward, I crossed the threshold, plunging into the unknown.
The hunt continues.
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Samuel's POV
The moment I crossed into the Veiled Expanse, everything changed.
The sensation was... impossible. Like folding through ten layers of reality and being peeled apart cell by cell only to be reassembled in a place that shouldn't exist. The sky was a lattice of silver veins streaking through void-dark clouds, and the ground beneath my feet was made of stardust and fossilized time.
And yet, I stood firm.
The Godcores on my belt pulsed once in unison—five forgotten gods reduced to raw essence, now under my dominion.
"System," I said aloud, eyes scanning the warped landscape. "Give me realm diagnostics."
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[System Notification – Realm Diagnostics]
Realm: Veiled Expanse
Dominant Forces: Null-Time, Paradox Energy, Conceptual Entities
Current Status: Unmapped
Threats: Unknown — [WARNING: Existence within this realm may trigger Dimensional Displacement Syndrome in lower beings.]
Status: Only one being in existence has reached this realm before you.
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My brows raised. "Only one?"
So I wasn't the first.
But I was damn sure going to be the last one standing.
As I walked forward, the air vibrated with a high, eerie hum, like a choir of extinct gods murmuring just beneath the skin of the realm. Every step I took cracked the ground and sent glimmers of chaos-light racing out like spiderwebs.
In the distance, I could see structures—monolithic temples floating in midair, chained to the ground by obsidian links thicker than airships. One of them radiated energy that made even my Mythic-tier instincts go on edge.
Then, another notification.
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[System Notification – Realm Quest Initiated]
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Quest Title: "The One Who Waits"
Objective: Locate the Obsidian Monastery of Parallax and confront the entity within.
Warning: Entity's nature is incompatible with standard causality. Combat will not follow traditional parameters.
Reward: Fragment of the Eternal Thread + ???
Failure Consequence: Loss of identity, memory erosion, potential annihilation.
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I let out a low whistle. "Loss of identity? Memory erosion?" I smirked. "Now that's more like it."
I summoned my favorite weapons — my Chaos Gauntlets — forged from the fangs of a titan I broke beneath my boot. They shimmered to life, runes burning down their length like veins of wrath given form.
"Alright then. Let's see what this realm has for me."
The air distorted ahead — and a figure stepped out.
Or rather... many figures.
They were all me.
Versions of Samuel Gebb I could've been — one twisted by flame, another broken by sorrow, another radiant with celestial power, and yet another bearing the scars of Bardot's betrayal so deeply he barely resembled a man anymore.
The one in front — clad in Voidsteel and crowned in broken stars — smiled at me. "You've done well, Samuel," he said in my voice, calm and measured. "But you haven't faced yourself yet."
I took a step forward, gauntlets humming.
"I've faced worse things than myself."
He laughed — and it echoed through the realm like shattering glass. "No, Samuel. You've faced your past. Not your possibility."
Behind him, the other versions unsheathed their weapons.
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[System Alert – Temporal Convergence Initiated]
Battle Type: Identity Collapse Simulation
Opponents: Echo-Variants of Samuel Gebb
Objective: Prove your right to wear the title — Harbinger of Destruction
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I cracked my knuckles.
"Let's end this, shall we?"
They charged.
I met them with a roar — and my howl shook the Veiled Expanse.