[Warning: Anomaly Detected]
[Status: Uncategorized. Name: The Riftkeeper]
Lucian’s newly-forged world—a tapestry woven entirely from his will—began to tremble.
Not from collapse.
But from something that did not belong.
Something even the System could not define.
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The entity stood without a definitive form.
It was not a creature.
It was not a god.
It was a hole in logic,
a rift in the absolute.
[System Failed to Parse Entity]
[Error: Null. Source: Undetectable]
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Lucian rose from his Throneless Throne.
His eyes—no longer reflecting anything human—stared blankly toward the unknown existence.
The entity spoke.
Its voice echoed like the shattered wills of thousands that never became.
“Lucian Veylor.”
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Before him, the rift in reality fractured like thin glass.
Formless souls whispered into being—
fragments of extinguished entities,
shadows of systems that had once been and then… were undone.
But Lucian did not move.
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“I am not the absolute.”
“I am the rift of the absolute. The keeper between law and void.”
Lucian took a step forward.
Each footfall shifted the world beneath him,
as if truth itself was being corrected.
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“If the rift is a threat—then I will make it a weapon.”
“If the System refuses to classify you—then I shall rewrite the classification.”
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[Initiating: Will Adjustment Protocol]
[New Entity Defined: The Riftkeeper — Function: Overseer of Reality’s Apex]
[Gabriel: Status—Linked]
A name appeared.
Gabriel.
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Time halted.
Lucian saw him—
a child… or not quite.
Hair a faded white.
Eyes as dark as void.
And he smiled.
Not out of kindness,
but understanding.
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He spoke softly:
“You believe no one can watch you from above?”
Lucian did not answer.
He stepped past Gabriel,
as he had once walked past the Executors of Reality.
Yet nothing collapsed.
Because Gabriel was not of this world.
He existed beyond it—
and thus, could not be destroyed.
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“I do not belong to any system.”
“But I have seen all systems rise… and decay.”
Lucian stopped.
His eyes flickered—glowing with comprehension.
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[Lucian Veylor: Status Updated]
[New Identity: The Riftless Emperor]
[System: Adjusting to New Reality]
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And in the distance,
the world he had created cracked for a second time.
Not from error,
but because the rift had been welcomed.
Lucian lifted his hand,
and began stitching the fractured sky
with threads of absolute will.
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He no longer asked who dared intrude.
He only made certain the world remained submissive.
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But before the stitching was complete,
one final whisper escaped from Gabriel:
“You can rewrite everything, Lucian…”
“But you cannot erase the rift from your own existence.”
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Lucian closed his eyes.
“Then I will become the rift itself.”
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[Final Status: Transcendent Entity]
[System: No Longer Required]
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The sky turned black.
And from its center emerged a light unknown—
not a star,
not a sun,
but the singular core
of a new existence.
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TO BE CONTINUED…