The wind howled through the broken archways as I stepped outside.
Dust and light danced together, golden and white under the twin suns.
One sun was bright—too bright—its rays sharp as blades. The other was pale and cold, bleeding through a shroud of clouds.
Two lights. Two shadows.
Everything here felt doubled. Unnatural.
The ruins stretched endlessly across a barren plain. Fallen statues, shattered towers, and remnants of forgotten gods lay half-buried beneath gray sand.
The air buzzed faintly—like static on a broken frequency. I realized it wasn't the wind. It was mana.
Alive. Breathing. Whispering through the world.
Each breath I took filled me with it—heavy and electric.
My heartbeat synced with something vast.
The Limit System flickered faintly before my eyes.
> [Mana Field Detected.]
Adapting Sensory Parameters.
Host Perception Increased by 12%.
I exhaled slowly, and the world expanded.
The hum of insects beneath the soil. The sound of pebbles sliding under distant boots. Even the faint heartbeat of something watching from beyond the dunes.
"...I can feel everything," I muttered.
The voice that answered wasn't human.
> "Feeling is the first illusion," it said. "Seeing is the second."
I turned sharply. Nothing.
Just the wind.
But deep in the ruins, a pulse echoed—low, rhythmic, like a heartbeat inside the earth.
Curiosity—or instinct—pulled me toward it.
The temple walls closed around me, carved with flowing patterns that glowed faintly when I passed. Words in a language I shouldn't understand whispered inside my head.
> 'Here rests the boundary between gods and men.'
The deeper I went, the heavier the air became.
Every step sank into layers of forgotten power. My vision blurred at the edges—like reality itself was bending under pressure.
At the center of the chamber stood a massive stone door, sealed shut by chains of light.
Each link pulsed like a heartbeat.
I reached out.
The moment my fingers brushed the chain, pain seared through me.
Images flooded my mind—cities burning, skies splitting, countless faces screaming as they were erased from existence.
Then—silence.
The System flared violently.
> [Caution.]
Boundary Type: Divine Seal Detected.
Warning: Interaction may summon Correction Entity.
"Correction… Entity?" I whispered.
Before the words even left my mouth, the world twitched.
The air shattered like glass.
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A shape emerged from the crack in the world.
Not from behind the door—but from the space itself.
It looked human at first—tall, draped in torn silver cloth—but its head was a smooth, featureless mask, and its presence bent everything around it.
The ground cracked where it stood.
> [Limit Guardian Manifested.]
Designation: Fragment of Null.]
Its voice was static and silence at the same time.
"Unregistered anomaly… detected."
I didn't breathe. Didn't blink.
Every nerve in my body screamed to run—but something deeper whispered the opposite.
Stand.
The Guardian's hand rose. Space warped. The world around me bent inward like the walls of a collapsing star.
> [Spatial Collapse Detected.]
Time slowed. My instincts roared awake.
Threads of light unfolded before me—lines connecting everything in sight: air currents, mana flows, gravitational pull, even the Guardian's trajectory.
My vision sharpened.
I reached out, not with my hands—but with my perception.
The world responded.
The collapse stopped—frozen midair.
A perfect sphere of stillness expanded outward, swallowing everything in silence.
The Guardian's faceless head tilted, almost… curious.
I took a breath. "You control space," I said. "But I am the space."
I clenched my fist.
The sphere inverted.
Light fractured. Reality screamed. The Guardian's body imploded into itself, folding and unfolding a thousand times in an instant before vanishing into a fine silver mist.
When it was over, the temple was silent again.
Only the whisper of broken mana filled the air.
> [Boundary Breach Neutralized.]
Second Layer Unlocked — Spatial Limit.]
"Distance is an illusion. The infinite lies between two points."
I stared at the glowing words. My hands were trembling—not from fear, but exhilaration.
So this was the power that defied gods.
The power that shouldn't exist.
Outside, thunder rolled across a cloudless sky. The twin suns dimmed, as if the world itself had noticed something it wished it hadn't.
> [Warning: World Correction Level Rising.]
Entities of Order have taken notice.
I looked up at the faint shimmer of reality cracking open again, like spiderwebs in the air.
A small smile tugged at my lips.
"Then let them come."