The corridor beyond Floor B91 felt wrong.
Not dark. Not broken. Just… hollow.
Lucian, Naia, and Lysia walked in silence, until the walls around them began to pulse—like the heartbeat of something ancient.
Then—
The system spoke.
But not in its usual tone.
No chime. No neutrality.
Only a whisper.
[System Override: Divine Command – Herald Class Deployment]
Warning: The entity descending does not register as alive, dead, or divine.Codename: The Godless OneRelation to Lucian: RedactedAlignment: Emotionally SeveredDirective: Eliminate the Echo of the Unwritten
Lucian stopped.
"…No."
Naia frowned. "You know what that means?"
Lucian didn't answer.
Because he did.
He remembered her.
Selaria.
Once a girl who believed in stars.Once the only one who ever kissed him beneath a dying world.
Once—
The only one who chose to forget him.
The floor split open.
Mist poured upward like a rising sea.
A figure emerged.
No wings. No face. Just a floating shell of shimmering void, outlined by fading fragments of a woman's silhouette.
She spoke without voice.
Yet they heard her.
"You left me behind."
Lucian's heart stilled.
Naia took a step back.
Lysia drew her blade. "What is that?"
Lucian whispered:
"…She was human. Once."
The figure twisted.
From her chest, chains of memory unraveled—each one depicting moments Lucian once sealed.
A lake reflecting two shadows leaning close.
A night under stars, promises whispered.
The moment she said: "I don't want to be your weapon."
And the moment he answered:
"You'll forget me. It's safer."
Selaria's voice tore through the silence.
"You made me forget everything… but not the pain."
She raised her hand.
And from her palm—
A spear of broken timelines screamed toward him.
Lucian dodged, barely.The wall behind shattered—rewriting itself into an empty house. One they once shared.
Naia stepped forward.
"She's not stable. Let me help—"
"NO!"Lucian's voice stopped her cold.
"This is mine."
He walked toward Selaria.
Every step brought another memory to life around them.
He spoke softly.
"You asked me to erase you. You begged me to make you forget, Selaria."
"And I did. Because you said… you couldn't bear knowing I was gone."
She floated higher.
Eyes like mirrored scars.
"Then why am I still bleeding?"
With a flick—
She summoned The Archive of Forgotten Promises, pages fluttering like blades, forming a ring of judgment around him.
Each one read:
"I will come back.""I will not make you cry.""You will never be alone."
Then they turned black.
And tore toward Lucian.
He raised a shield of narrative script—but it cracked instantly.
Blood flew.
Lysia shouted, "You can't take her alone!"
Lucian replied without turning.
"If I fight her like a threat—she'll die."
Naia's voice was tight. "And if you don't… you will."
Selaria descended.
Her voice turned cruel.
"I gave up my soul. My identity. My humanity. So I wouldn't feel the loss."
"And still… every time the stars move… I remember you."
She stood inches from him now.
No face. No skin.
Just sorrow incarnate.
"Why did you choose her over me?"
Lucian looked at her.
Eyes raw. Voice cracked.
"I didn't."
She paused.
He continued.
"You died… in my arms. I rewrote your name, so you'd live again—without the burden."
He looked at Naia. Then Lysia. Then back.
"But maybe… maybe I was selfish. Maybe I just didn't want to see you shattered."
He took a step forward.
"If you want revenge. Take it."
He dropped his guard.
Selaria's hand trembled.
A blade of denial formed.
She lunged—
And stopped.
Because something inside her cracked.
Not logic.
Not control.
But the last, fragile shard of Selaria, buried under godless layers.
She whispered.
"If you hadn't erased me… would I have stayed?"
Lucian closed his eyes.
And said the only truth that mattered.
"…Yes."
She shattered.
Not into death.
But into light.
Her body peeled away—revealing a young woman beneath.
Eyes wide with tears.
Skin soft and real.
She collapsed into his arms.
And for the first time in ten thousand years—
Selaria remembered her name.
[System Update]
Herald Class Neutralized – Target: Godless One (Selaria)Restoration: Partial Humanity RecoveredEmotional Anchor Formed: Selaria – Status: Fractured ReconnectionAbility Unlocked: [Godless Reclaim] – Lucian may awaken suppressed memories in others at great emotional cost
Naia approached slowly.
Lucian still held Selaria.
Naia spoke gently.
"…She loved you that much?"
Lucian didn't look up.
"I told her she had to forget, or she'd break."
He finally looked at Naia.
"She broke anyway."
Lysia looked away.
"…You're not who I thought you were."
Lucian smiled bitterly.
"Good."
But high above, in the Divine Citadel—
Elyon watched the scene unfold.
A god beside him growled.
"He turned a Herald. That's impossible."
Elyon's eyes narrowed.
"He doesn't rewrite them."
"He reminds them."
He turned away.
"Very well. It's time to change tactics."
"Send the next one."