Sorry for the slow updates I promised to release this book several days ago but here's an apology by giving you a sneak peak to Arc 3 remember this is a Arc that won't be written for awhile so what you see here may be changed by the time it's officially written quick disclaimer Atherion is inspired by Genshin Impact but is a original story with only the plot and main story the same with all characters concepts or systems being original so most Genshin fans will know who's, who's counterpart anyway here's the sneak peak
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Sneak Peek: "Stand and Rise, Lunaris"
The storm had finally broken.
The shattered sky above Voltaria pulsed with violet fire, the echoes of lightning tearing holes through the clouds. Lunaris knelt among the broken spears of light, her blade of thunder cracked, her breathing ragged.
Her mask — the calm, perfect image of eternity — lay fractured in the dirt.
And for the first time, Ryn saw the fear behind her eyes.
She looked up at him, trembling.
"You don't understand," she whispered. "Eternity doesn't break… because if it does, everything falls apart. I can't bear to fail again. Not after what I've done…"
Ryn stood over her, his cloak torn by the wind, eyes burning with starlit fury.
"Fail again? That's all you've done, Lunaris."
She flinched as his words cracked through the thunder.
"You lost something precious — I know that pain. You were betrayed, deceived, crushed under Heaven's lies. But instead of standing up and facing it, you buried yourself in your own cage and called it eternity!"
The lightning around them flared in rhythm with his voice.
"You talk about balance, about order — but you're the one who broke it. You didn't protect anyone. You just froze the world because you were too afraid to let it move on!"
She clenched her fists, shaking.
"You don't know what it's like! Watching everything you built crumble because you weren't strong enough to stop it—"
"I do know!" Ryn roared, stepping closer, his pendant gleaming like a second sun. "I know what it's like to fail! To watch the only person who mattered get taken right in front of you while you couldn't do a damn thing about it!"
The storm seemed to still at his words.
"But I didn't lock myself away and pretend the pain didn't exist. I didn't build a world that never changes just so I could hide from the truth!"
He pointed his blade — a line of searing starlight — straight at her chest.
"You think you're eternal? Then prove it. Not by hiding — but by rising. By facing what you ran from. By fighting for something again."
Lunaris' breath trembled. "Why do you even care?" she spat weakly. "I was your enemy from the start. I followed Heaven's lies. I tried to kill you."
Ryn lowered his weapon, his gaze sharp but unwavering.
"Because you're still alive."
She blinked.
"And as long as you're alive," he continued, voice steady as thunder before the strike, "you've got a chance to change. You don't have to be what Heaven made you, or what your guilt turned you into."
His expression softened — only slightly.
"You wanted eternity so no one else would suffer like you did. I get that. But eternity isn't stillness, Lunaris. It's motion that never ends. It's standing up every single time the world knocks you down."
He turned, the stormlight reflecting off the broken mirror of her blade.
"You call me a flaw in eternity." He looked back over his shoulder, his eyes glowing faintly. "Maybe I am. But if breaking eternity means saving the ones trapped by it — then I'll keep breaking it again and again."
"So don't you dare stay on your knees." His voice rose like the gale before a lightning strike. "Stand up, Lunaris. Stand, and live."
The world fell quiet — the kind of silence that comes before something changes forever.
Lunaris' hands trembled as she reached for the cracked remains of her blade. Lightning sparked weakly across its surface, faltering like a dying heartbeat.
"Live…" she whispered, staring at her reflection in the fractured metal. "I don't even know how anymore."
Ryn turned fully toward her, his voice quieter now, but no less fierce.
"Then start by breathing. Start by taking one step forward. The rest will follow."
She looked up at him, her eyes hollow yet uncertainly bright. "And if I fall again?"
Ryn sheathed his blade, the glow fading from his eyes.
"Then I'll drag you back up myself. Even if I have to do it a thousand times."
For a long moment, neither spoke. The storm's remains drifted like starlight ash around them, soft and silent.
Lunaris' voice broke the stillness.
"You're a fool, Ryn."
He smiled faintly, exhaustion breaking through his fire.
"Maybe. But I'd rather be a fool who fights for the living than a god who kneels to a dead eternity."
A single tear slipped down her cheek. For the first time in centuries, the lightning around her faded… not in defeat, but release.
And as the storm clouds parted, the first light of dawn broke through — golden, warm, and free.
Ryn turned his gaze skyward, where that light met the far horizon. Somewhere beyond those clouds, beyond all this strife, his sister was waiting — tangled in the shadows of the Abyssal Veil.
He clenched his fist, the pendant pulsing once against his chest.
"Hold on, Seris… I'm coming."
And in that moment, as the wind swept across the scarred plain, even Lunaris — the once-unchanging goddess of eternity — looked up at him and saw something she hadn't in eons.
Hope.
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Again all this isn't final feel free to give suggestions for the final scene in Arc 3 but for now let's focus on getting Arc 1 released