The signs were there. No one listened.

Fifty years ago, a child was born with a prophecy etched into his mind:

[The Ones Beyond seek the world and its Sparks.]

He was not alone.

Across the world, children followed—each carrying the same vision, each driven to madness by glimpses of a future no one believed in.

They screamed warnings. They were ignored. Locked away. Buried.

Then the world ended.

The planet trembled.
The galaxy convulsed.
The universe fractured.

Dimensional Gates tore open. Monsters emerged. Reality evolved.

Survival became a privilege.

 —

Uriel is a death row inmate, condemned for crimes that ensured the world would never mourn him.

On the night of his execution, a stranger appears—calm, composed, and impossibly out of place.

“I come from the future.”

And with him, a way out.

Not salvation. Not redemption.

A bargain.

Because no gift from fate comes without a cost.

“Let’s make a deal.”

Quite some time ago, before the advent when he'd opened his pack, and after the advent, as he went through his plethora of rewards, Uriel had gotten quite a few things.


He'd used most of his rewards except a few.


•Details: Use this card to exchange for any artefact or tool in the Nihil Shop of the Diamond grade, or sacrifice it to elevate any artefact or tool to the Diamond grade.]


•Details: Use this template to design and create a Silver-grade mage tool bound to your core, with up to three Silver-grade enchantments and one Gold-grade enchantment.]


The former he'd gotten from his Peace and Quiet quest, the one he'd gotten during the early days of the settlement when he'd tried to save General Lorys, while the latter he'd gotten in his Mage Pack, which he'd opened while trapped in a dimensional space by Thoryl.


Chapter 118 - Tragically Divine