The entire cosmos shuddered.
It wasn't just the battlefield.
It wasn't just this world.
The entire structure of reality itself groaned under the weight of what had just happened.
Aiden had done the impossible.
He had struck an Executor.
He had forced an entity beyond causality to acknowledge his existence.
And in doing so—
He had awakened something greater.
"We see you now."
The voice did not come from above.
It did not come from around them.
It came from everywhere.
It came from the very foundation of existence itself.
The Architects had noticed.
And they were not pleased.
The Sky Splits—A Glimpse of the Beyond
—𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒—
The fractures in the sky deepened.
But this time, it wasn't like before.
This time, the cracks bled.
Not blood.
Not energy.
Concepts.
They dripped from the rift like liquid ideas, dissolving into the air, warping everything they touched.
One drop landed on a mountain in the distance.
Instantly, the mountain became a river.
