"Kael… what is that?" Lyra whispered, her voice trembling, her eyes wide with fresh horror, fixed on the colossal, swirling vortex of pure, raw system energy ripping through Aethernia's sky. The portal pulsed with a blinding emerald light, humming with an unimaginable, destructive power.
Kael felt the cold dread twist in his gut, echoing Nyx's chilling message on his Admin panel: [ADMIN 002 (NYX ARDENT) MESSAGE: You think you can win, Kael? You have only unleashed chaos. Now, witness true order.] His panel blared, overriding all other alerts: [CORE SYSTEM ACCESS POINT: ACTIVATED. STATUS: 'THE FINAL PURGE' - PROTOCOL INITIATED. GLOBAL ERADICATION IMMINENT.]
"It's the Core System," Kael breathed, the words tasting like ash in his mouth. He grabbed Lyra's arm, his grip tight. "Nyx isn't jus
