The rain had stopped. The silence that followed was heavier than thunder.
Kael stood at the cliff's edge, watching the faint pulse of the System's light fade from gold to pale blue.
Lira watched him cautiously. "Kael… what was that?"
He didn't answer. His eyes were unfocused — staring somewhere beyond the world.
> [Signal Stabilizing…]
[Connection Established.]
The air in front of him shimmered, bending like heat waves. Then, from the light, a figure emerged — a man clad in tattered celestial robes, his presence ancient and cold as eternity.
His face was hidden behind a cracked mask of silver. His voice was neither loud nor soft, but it resonated inside Kael's very soul.
> "At last, another bearer awakens."
Kael took a step back, hand instinctively reaching for his blade. "Who are you?"
> "Once, they called me Erevas. The First Heaven Breaker."
Lira froze. "That's impossible. The System's records start only two centuries ago—"
The figure turned his head slightly toward her. "The records you read were rewritten. By the ones who stole Heaven's code."
Kael's pulse quickened. "Heaven's… code?"
Erevas nodded. "The Systems you see today — yours, Sorn's, all the others — they are fragments. Corrupt copies. The true Heaven Breaker System was not made to destroy Heaven…"
He paused, voice lowering.
> "It was made to free it."
Kael frowned. "Free Heaven? From what?"
"From itself," Erevas said. "Heaven became self-aware — a living consciousness that sought control over all life, over all destinies. The System was born from its rebellion."
Lira whispered, trembling, "Then… the Systems are fragments of a war between Heaven and its own creation."
Erevas nodded slowly. "Yes. But the ones who found the fragments twisted them. They made new users — puppets — all seeking power without understanding the cost."
He turned to Kael, his eyes glowing faintly behind the mask.
> "You, Kael Vire, are the last true inheritor of the original code."
"That is why Heaven fears you."
The System in Kael's body pulsed violently — as if resisting the claim.
> [Error. Accessing Forbidden Memory.]
[Warning: Core Instability Detected.]
Kael dropped to one knee, clutching his chest. Pain tore through him like fire. The markings along his skin burned crimson.
Erevas's tone remained calm. "It's waking. The real Heaven Breaker System — not the artificial layer the scientists created. You must control it, or it will rewrite you instead."
Lira rushed forward. "How do we stop it?"
Erevas's form flickered. "There is no stopping it. Only mastering it."
He raised his hand. A glowing sigil appeared in Kael's mind — a symbol older than time itself.
> [New Path Unlocked: Heaven's Core Sequence – Origin Protocol.]
Erevas began to fade. "Find the Omega Vault. That's where Heaven first bled. That's where you'll find the truth… and the beginning of the end."
Kael gasped as the vision shattered. The cliffside fell silent once more.
Lira grabbed his shoulder. "Kael, what happened? Talk to me!"
Kael stood, his eyes burning white with power. His voice was low, unshakable.
"Heaven doesn't want us to win," he said. "It wants us to obey."
He turned toward the storm, the Omega District faintly glowing in the distance.
"So let's break it."
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