"When you bend the laws of heaven, you don't just change the rules—you break the locks that kept something darker sealed."
The battlefield had long gone quiet.
Jiwoon stood at the edge of the shattered tribunal platform, the ashes of divine sigils still glowing faintly at his feet. The skies above were no longer torn—they were still, unnaturally so. No judgment. No system voice.
[System Log: Empty]
[Network Status: Undefined]
[Protocol Tree: Root authority… suspended.]
He took a breath. It felt wrong.
Too free.
Noheon approached carefully from behind. "You did something back there," he said, his tone caught between awe and fear. "That wasn't just power. That was… author-level command."
Jiwoon didn't respond. His clawed fingers twitched slightly.
He hadn't intended to become this.
He had only wanted justice. Not… silence.
Elsewhere – Tribunal Nexus
A digital shadow flickered across the Tribunal's central core.
[Alert: Command Tree Rooted – Unauthorized Entity: CODEBREAKER]
[Error: Tribunal cannot override rewritten logic.]
[Action: Dispatch fail-safe unit – "Cleansing Wing: Seraph Null."]
In silence, a figure began to move within stasis.
Wings not of light… but pure system erasure.
Back in Skyfall
Jiwoon sat quietly under a broken pillar.
Then—
The voices started.
Faint at first. Not screams, not whispers. Something beneath thought.
"Why did you open it?"
"What will you do when even sin asks for freedom?"
"The abyss has been watching, Jiwoon. And now… it listens."
He clutched his head.
[Passive Skill Activated: Echoroot Sensitivity]
Allows partial reception of system-forbidden fragments.
⚠️ May cause memory bleed, hallucination, or identity drift.
Jiwoon muttered, "What the hell did I unleash…"
End Scene
From the shadows of the broken tribunal, a pair of glowing eyes watched Jiwoon. Not hostile. Not friendly.
Waiting.
Something was awake now.
Something older than sin.