Chapter Title: The Edge of Erasure
The moment the Origin declared his end, the world did not explode.
It compressed.
Everything drew inward.
Space, sound, light, even the chaotic surge of the void around Azrael tightened into a single, suffocating point. The vast instability that had once spread wildly was now being forced into order, bent and reshaped by a force far greater than anything he had faced before.
Azrael felt it immediately.
The void resisted.
But something else resisted harder.
The system.
Not the broken version inside him.
Not the fragment he had forced to evolve.
But the original architecture.
The true foundation.
It pressed against the void with absolute authority, forcing structure onto chaos, rewriting the space around them into something rigid, controlled, i
