"You fear death? I fear survival without purpose."
— Rahul, prelude to the Searing War
Scene 1: Dominion Council – Olivia on Trial
A massive chamber. Magic circuits in the floor pulsing blue. Council elders cloaked in layers of memory and law.
Olivia stood in the center.
Calm. Unshaken. But watched by hundreds of divine eyes.
A floating projection showed the aftermath of the arena destruction. Her energy signature — fused with Kaien's — was unlike anything ever recorded.
"Your light has no known origin," boomed a voice.
"We demand the truth, Princess Vaeloria."
Olivia slowly raised her chin. "And if the truth burns your eyes out?"
Murmurs.
"What are you?" they asked.
She exhaled, then spoke words no one had heard in 10,000 years:
"I am the Echo of the Starcore Bloom."
The chamber gasped. A seer fainted. An ancient warlock wept.
"That bloodline was… eradicated."
She looked up — eyes glowing faint blue.
"So was Rahul's. And yet here we are."
Scene 2: Kaien vs. the Star-Killer Construct
Meanwhile, Kaien and Vaeyra trained beneath the Voidforge — an ancient facility used to test SSS-ranked war titans.
Except today… it activated on its own.
A towering celestial construct rose from its cradle. Fifty meters tall. Four arms. A crown of dying suns for a head. Its voice was ancient code:
"Target: Vordrakar. Bloodline match: Rahul. Commencing termination."
Kaien turned to Vaeyra. "Hide."
"NO."
He looked surprised — and proud.
The construct raised its arms.
"UNLEASHING PHASE ONE — PLANETFALL."
Kaien's eyes gleamed.
"Good. I've always wanted to fight something cosmic without holding back."
The sky above cracked.
The ground inverted gravity.
A vortex of collapsing light and antimatter shot toward them.
Kaien vanished — then reappeared mid-air, punching straight into the core blast.
The impact collapsed an entire subdimension.
Explosions raged — not in one direction, but across probability.
And in the center of it all?
Kaien.
Floating. Cloaked in Voidflame.
His hair now fully silver-black — an ancient transformation once used by Rahul himself.
"Your systems are flawed," Kaien whispered.
"PHASE TWO — SOLAR ERASURE."
Beams converged from orbit. Time slowed.
Then—
"Vaeyra," Kaien said, not turning. "You ready?"
She stepped forward, barefoot, eyes glowing.
"Let me try something."
She raised her hand — and gold met void.
The blast meant to erase a star?
She reflected it.
The construct froze.
"ERROR. ERROR. Two ancestral bloodlines detected—"
Kaien blurred forward.
And with a single upward strike laced in compressed void, he decapitated the machine.
It exploded silently — shattering space for miles.
Scene 3: Post-Battle – Truth in the Ashes
Smoke cleared.
Vaeyra collapsed — drained, gasping.
Kaien caught her.
"You didn't have to jump in."
"I did," she whispered. "I've been hiding so long, I forgot what standing felt like."
Kaien looked up — the horizon warped.
"That wasn't a random attack."
"It was a test," Olivia said, stepping through a portal.
"A god-tier one," Valenya added, entering behind her.
"And it's only the first."
Scene 4: The First Death Star Awakens
In the skies beyond the Eternal Dominion…
A sun blinked.
Not dimmed.
Not collapsed.
Blinked.
Because something was behind it — blocking it.
A city-sized weapon, wrapped in divine iron and dream-forged gears.
A voice echoed across realms:
"The Crown is rising."
"Activate the Watcher Protocol. Rahul's heir must be isolated."
Final Scene: Rahul's Seal Fractures
A realm of infinite mirrors.
Rahul stood alone, hands clasped behind his back.
His voice, barely above a whisper:
"They dared fire the Watcher."
He turned.
His cloak unfurled — forged from screams of fallen tyrants and stitched with ancient starlight.
And behind him…
A gate opened.
Eon Thalor appeared.
Older. Weaker.
But eyes wide.
"You're waking up."
Rahul smiled faintly.
"No, Eon. I never slept."
And with that, Rahul stepped through the gate — his shadow bleeding into time.