Chapter Title: When Systems Break
The moment Azrael let go, everything changed.
The void inside him did not surge like before.
It erupted.
Not as a controlled flow, not as a weapon he guided, but as something far older than his will, something that had been waiting for the exact moment he would stop holding it back. It spread through him in an instant, flooding every nerve, every muscle, every thought.
The system reacted immediately.
Critical Failure
Containment Lost
Azrael felt his heartbeat slow.
Then accelerate.
Then split.
It was no longer a single rhythm.
It was two.
One steady.
One chaotic.
His vision fractured. The battlefield before him split into overlapping layers, each showing a slightly different version of reality. The Origin stood in all of them at once, its fo
