Chapter Title: The Moment Everything Changes
The instant the balance broke, reality screamed.
Not in sound.
But in structure.
Azrael felt it tear through him before he even saw it. The fragile equilibrium he had forced into existence shattered under its own weight, the intertwined forces of void and system violently rejecting one another.
For a single, critical moment—
Everything became unstable.
The blade buried deep within the Origin’s core trembled as energy erupted outward, no longer controlled, no longer aligned. The crack Azrael had created spread rapidly across the Origin’s form, splintering through its structure like fractures in glass under pressure.
The entire space convulsed.
The platform beneath them split open, jagged lines tearing across its surface as the rigid syst
