Chapter 12
Scene: Cratered Battlefield, Realms Beneath Spiral Rift
The ground was nothing but scars.
The sky had no color only flickers of shattered dimension.
Two beings lay broken.
And yet... Zereth Kaine hadn't even drawn his sword.
Gods from afar watched.
Some prayed. Some retreated.
The name Zereth Kaine was beginning to feel like a curse.
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Xevira, blood dripping from her lips, smiled with cracked teeth.
> "Y-You... You were never part of the cycle…"
She coughed, dissolving her form into spiral mist.
> "Fine… I'll deliver your name to the Spiral Sovereigns... I hope they beg you before they're erased."
Zereth turned his back to her—uninterested.
> Zereth (softly): "You talk too much for someone who should have vanished."
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Scene: Realm Above the Spiral Rift
The clouds above twisted. The broken heavens pulsed.
A new vibration rang in the air—not of this dimension.
The crowd of gods gasped.
> "Is that—?! No... No, it can't be—"
> "Another one… from the Spiral Deep?!"
> "This one... This one has a name even gods have forgotten."
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[APPEARANCE: ???]
A figure descended from a spiral of burning darkness.
Unlike Xevira or Vael'Tharon, this one didn't announce himself.
He simply walked through the air, barefoot, as if reality bent to carry him.
His name was whispered like an instinct.
"Agnir of the Silent Flame."
The gods gasped.
> "He was sealed! Banished beyond the edge of creation!"
> "He doesn't burn. He un-burns. He erases flame, light, and time!"
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Scene: Agnir vs. Zereth Kaine
Agnir hovered in front of Zereth.
No greetings. No speeches. Just presence.
Zereth blinked eyes narrowing. A twitch of familiarity.
> Zereth: "Ah… One of the forgotten ones."
> Agnir: "You ruined balance."
> Zereth: "I sneezed. And your friends shattered."
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Suddenly, Agnir moved.
The world turned black.
A wave of anti-flame surged forward a flame that consumed not with heat, but with silence.
Zereth vanished.
Then reappeared behind Agnir.
Their clash sent waves through the planets one orbit shattered.
Crowd reactions:
> "I can't see—WHAT IS THAT?!"
> "Was that Zereth's… arm? Did he just flick?"
> "Did… Agnir just absorb reality?!"
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Back to the fight
Agnir's body was wrapped in a swirling halo of void.
Zereth finally drew one finger across the air.
> Zereth: "Let me try something new."
The wind disappeared.
Time halted for everyone watching.
And from Zereth's mouth…
> "Disappear."
Agnir blinked and half his arm was gone.
No explosion. No flash.
Just... absence.
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Final Scene: End of Chapter
Agnir snarled, a crack forming across his chest.
Zereth raised one eyebrow.
> "Tch. Still standing?"
The Spiral behind Agnir began to quake something else was forming within. A third arrival?
Zereth turned to the sky.
> Zereth: "Send the next one."
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