[Inside the Tower – The Break-in Team]
The team runs through shattered metal halls as the Tower groans like a dying god. Sirens wail. Lights flicker red. Whole sections begin folding in on themselves, reality glitching.
> Eve (panting):
"He's tearing space apart! We have to sever the signal!"
> Xiao Ling:
"The core's destabilizing—if we don't shut it down now, that god will emerge fully formed!"
> Alexander (yelling over the chaos):
"Dr. Jin! We need an override—anything!"
> Dr. Jin (over comms):
"You can't shut it down! Not without collapsing the entire field grid—you'd kill everyone outside!"
> Adam (coldly):
"Do it."
> Ty (furious):
"There are thousands still fighting—!"
> Adam:
"They're already dead."
Eve clenches her jaw but says nothing. No one can argue.
The team reaches the next chamber: a glowing central control hub ringed by alien glyphs. Xiao Ling dives in, fingers racing over controls.
> Xiao Ling:
"I can stall the broadcast… but it'll need a full shutdown key. Dr. Jin—tell me there's a backdoor—"
> Dr. Jin (crackling):
"There is… but you need to detonate the override from the core directly!"
> Alexander (grimly):
"We'll need to go back down."
Suddenly, the walls ripple.
The sky collapses into blood and black.
The Leviathan towers above the earth, its body coiled across continents. Where it breathes, cities crack apart. Screaming erupts as the laws of physics shatter—people freeze midair, melt through the ground, or simply vanish.
Commander Cooper watches from a hill of corpses.
> Commander Cooper (breathing heavily):
"...They're not going to make it back."
Lieutenant Lastimosa stands beside him, bloodied and pale.
> Lastimosa:
"We fight anyway."
Cooper nods.
Behind him, the remnants of the Frontier Army and Xianzhou Knights rally.
> Cooper (into radio):
"All surviving units—CHARGE. This is our final march."
> All radios erupt with screaming and war cries.
Soldiers and knights storm forward—toward the Tower, toward the Leviathan, toward death.
The music of war—cannon fire, clashing steel, magic bolts exploding, people crying for mothers and gods—blends into a single catastrophic hymn.
[Back in the Tower – Desperate Decision]
Ty looks at Alexander, then at Xiao Ling.
> Ty (softly):
"Get out. I'll go to the core."
> Alexander:
"Like hell you are—"
> Ty (fierce):
"You're all needed. I'm already dead."
Alexander stares at her, throat clenched, but nods.
> Ty:
"Tell Cooper... tell him I finally got a car."
She runs, disappearing down the corridor before anyone can stop her.
Ty entering the burning heart of the Tower.
Commander Cooper charging ahead with his last battalion.
Erebus standing atop the Sky Blade, arms open as a god-form begins descending from the rift.
Dr. Jin watching it all from the comms, crying silently.
Adam, silent as ever, watching the sky, a flicker of something alien behind his eyes.
Ty slams her hands against the console, sparks flying. The core pulses violently, a swirling orb of god-energy tearing space around it. Her breathing is labored—burns and blood cover her skin.
> Ty (gritting her teeth):
"Dr. Jin, I'm in. But this thing's coded in celestial script—it's rewriting itself!"
> Dr. Jin (urgently over comms):
"Then rewrite it faster! That core goes critical in six minutes—if you don't overload it perfectly, you'll collapse the Tower and fail the shutdown!"
Ty's fingers fly over a shattered touchpad. Blood smears the glass.
> Ty:
"Shut up and walk me through it."
Outside, alarms scream louder. The Tower trembles.
A horrific roar rips across the world. The Leviathan senses the threat to the core, its body convulsing as it tears its way toward the Tower, leaving a trail of annihilation. From its wake, it summons an army—demons of impossible shape, twisted beasts, nightmarish shadows with hollow faces and shrieking maws.
Commander Cooper stands alone in its path, coated in blood and ash. His cape flaps against a storm of debris and fire.
> Commander Cooper (to himself):
"So you summon an army..."
He looks up at the monstrous wall of flesh and horror charging toward him. His jaw clenches.
> Commander Cooper (screaming):
"WELL I DON'T GIVE A DAMN—
I'M STILL NOT GONNA LET YOU PASS!!"
He charges forward, weapons drawn.
His body slams against Leviathan's face.
A titanic clash—the air shatters. Cooper digs his feet into the earth, stopping Leviathan for a moment, like a mortal Atlas. Blood bursts from his eyes, his mouth, his armor cracks under the pressure, yet he doesn't fall.
The remaining warriors and soldiers rally behind him, screaming, charging, dying, and still holding the summoned horrors back.
Dr. Jin (calm, shaking):
"Redirect the divine thread—no, no! It's spiraling—ground it with a pulse delay loop!"
> Ty:
"How much time left!?"
> Dr. Jin:
"Forty-two seconds."
> Ty (whispering):
"Okay… okay, let's die beautifully."
She types one last command—"MANUAL CORE OVERDRIVE – CONFIRM?"
She slams her fist on the key.
A deep hum rises. The core glows white-hot. Her comm crackles.
> Ty (to everyone):
"Tell Cooper... he wins."
Leviathan screams—it feels it. Its body recoils, a shriek of anger and panic rumbling through the ruined sky.
Commander Cooper roars louder.
> Commander Cooper:
"TY, DO IT NOW!! DO IT!!!"
The Tower explodes with light.
A shockwave rips outward.
Everything turns white—
The roaring stops.
Smoke coils through the air like phantoms, and the great Tower begins to collapse in on itself—an impossible structure breaking apart piece by piece, sinking into its own gravity well. The ground trembles, but no one moves.
There is only silence… except the howling wind.
Where the Leviathan once loomed, where armies clashed beneath a bleeding sky, there now stands only a still form. One man, unmoving.
Commander Cooper.
His armor is cracked wide open. His face is burnt, bloodied, eyes half-closed—but he stands tall, boots dug into the earth, holding the scorched remains of his blade like a broken cross. His body is covered in ash, and his skin has turned pale, almost marble-like. He died standing.
No one saw it happen. No one watched him fall, because he never did.
The portal above begins to close slowly, the last fragments of the Tower being pulled into the collapsing breach. The air is heavy, each breath painful.
Alexander, Eve, Xiao Ling, Ty (barely breathing), and Adam emerge from the devastated wreckage, limping, coughing, bleeding. Ty is carried by Alexander—she's unconscious but alive. Elysia stumbles behind them, her wings torn.
They stop when they see him.
Commander Cooper… still there. Still watching.
Xiao Ling drops to her knees.
Eve turns away, clenching her fists.
Adam just stares. His face—blank.
> Alexander (quietly):
"…He did it."
> Elysia (depress):
" thank you. I'm sorry…"
> Ty (barely conscious):
"… that stubborn asshole never gave up…"
Adam walks up to the body. His eyes narrow. The wind rips past his coat. He looks at the hero who defied gods, monsters, and fate—and never wavered.
> Adam (coldly):
"A necessary death."
Eve turns sharply.
> Eve:
"He gave his life for this world, and that's all you have to say?!"
Adam doesn't reply. Instead, he walks past Cooper's body, brushing his hand along the hilt of the dead man's blade.
> Adam (softly):
"…One war ends. Another will rise."
The sky is clearing. Stars are visible again.
The wind groans across the shattered plains. Smoke rises in ghostly fingers. Half-buried beneath steel wreckage and broken stone, Ty's eyes snap open, faint yellow light flickering in them like a dying flame.
She gasps—choking on dust and blood—and claws her way out from the debris. Her body is mangled, one arm shattered, her legs torn and burned, but she's breathing.
Xiao Ling and Alexander rush to her side, helping her sit up as she looks skyward… just in time to see it:
The incomplete One True God.
A being of blinding, unfinished light. Its silhouette flickers—a half-born divinity, writhing with cosmic distortion. And then… it fades, collapsing into nothingness, pulled back beyond reality as the Tower's core finally dies.
Gone. Erased before it ever was.
From above, a dark blot rips the clouds—Erebus, Son of Chaos, falls like a meteor of wrath. His wings, shadow-stitched, spread wide. His eyes burn black and crimson, mouth twisted with fury. He hits the ground hard, stone cracking beneath him, the battlefield shaking from his mere presence.
> Erebus (seething):
"You ruined EVERYTHING. Do you have any idea what you've done?!"
He raises his hand—dark magic curling like a viper—but before he takes another step…
A black-gloved hand bursts clean through his chest from behind.
His heart, still beating, is crushed.
He gasps—confusion replacing fury—blood pouring from his mouth.
> Erebus (whispers):
"You…"
> Ghost:
"Shhh."
He lets Erebus fall to the ground. A son of chaos dies in the dirt like a nameless soldier.
Ghost stands there. Unmasked still, trench coat flowing, the Sky Blade sheathed across his back. He begins to clap slowly. The sound echoes unnaturally in the vast silence.
> Ghost:
"Bravo. That was… beautiful. The sacrifice, the defiance, the despair. You people really do shine best when you're in dire straits."
He steps forward, smiling—not mockingly, but genuinely impressed.
> Ghost:
"Truly. You've outdone yourselves."
There's a sudden flicker of light—and Dr. Jin materializes in a sharp pulse of tech-light, placing himself between Ghost and the broken heroes. His lab coat is torn, his hands tremble from exhaustion, but his eyes burn with urgency.
> Dr. Jin (grim):
"Why are you still here, Ghost? You have the blade. The Tower is gone. You could build another, anywhere. You could finish what Erebus started… so why stay?"
Everyone watches. Wounded. Bloodied. Barely alive.
Waiting for an answer.
Ghost tilted his head, amused.
He slowly walked in a wide arc, gaze never leaving Dr. Jin, whose expression had turned from confrontation to cold realization.
> Ghost (smiling faintly):
"With your level of intelligence...
You should already figure out the answer, right?"
Dr. Jin's brows furrowed. A cold sweat formed down his temple as the pieces connected—the blade, the tower, the monumental energy surge, the Leviathan distraction, the timing…
His breath caught.
> Dr. Jin (thinking aloud):
"The sword… The tower… this large-scale chaos…
The angel could've called for reinforcements.
The Shadow Empire was nowhere in sight during the final push…
This wasn't the war…"
His eyes widened in horror.
> Dr. Jin (whispers):
"This was a diversion…
Your true intentions…"
He staggered back a step.
> Dr. Jin (voice trembling):
"It was the Celestial World.
That's where the real blow was struck."
> Dr. Jin (broken):
"…Which means… it's already gone."
Ghost didn't deny it. He simply turned his back, gazing up at the night sky now bleeding red cracks of corrupted starlight.
> Ghost (softly):
"The Celestial World…no longer needed to exist."
He looked over his shoulder, yellow eyes glowing like dying stars.
> Ghost:
"You call it destruction…
I call it liberation."
Elysia fell to her knees. Her wings fractured, her light dimmed. Her home. Her people. Her sky… erased while she stood here powerless.
> Elysia (whispers):
"No…"
Xiao Ling gritted her teeth, fists trembling.
Ty clutched her side, her broken body cold.
Adam said nothing—just turned away, silently fuming.
Eve covered her mouth, holding back a scream.
Alexander just stared.
No one had an answer.
Dr. Jin stepped forward again, hollow.
> Dr. Jin:
"So what now? You won. The Celestial World is gone.
You have the blade. What more do you want?"
Ghost looked up.
The sky pulsed.
Somewhere far above, another tear began to open.
He turned back and whispered:
> Ghost:
"I want to show you what true despair is."
Fade to black.