When the fragment of Shad Ruhvaël appeared in the Viraya, everything seemed to contract around her.
Her veil, heavy like an eclipse, masked a face that no form of conceptual existence could bear.
Her four pairs of wings unfurled with infinite slowness, as if each beat withdrew from the world a principle, an idea, a law.
The lance she carried – Absolute Deconceptualization – did not shine.
It absorbed all light, all notion, all possibility of being.
Raktabīja Rāvana, in his true body, a titan who contained millions of realities in gestation in each of his scales, awoke.
For the first time since his birth, he perceived a thing that seemed truly opposed to his nature.
He wanted to speak.
He wanted to understand.
He wanted to scream his name, his essence, his function.
But there was nothing.
For before Shad Ruhvaël, even wanting is already too conceptual.
He was annulled before his intention could be born.
His identity was removed from the catalog of the possible.
His existence was de-described, erased not only from the present but from all versions where he could have existed.
No noise.
No spectacular death.
Just… a perfect absence, as if he had never been a concept that could be imagined.
At that precise instant, in other places:
In the fractured Void where the primordial gods were fighting,
The other Raktabīja Rāvana froze, folded in on himself, then dissipated like an illusion lit too long.
In the realities gnawed by cosmic centipedes,
The creatures ceased to be, their inverted and endless bodies decomposing into dusts of anti-life.
In the fragments of half-devoured worlds,
The holes, the gaps, the metaphysical scars left by the centipedes began to close slowly, as if an ancient breath was re-teaching the laws to stand upright.
The gods still standing fell to their knees, incredulous.
— Is it… finally over?
Shylty 1 and Isissis 1 released the confinement sphere, which dissipated like a dream too dense to remain.
Erasa awoke from her trance, removed her mask, a slight smile on her lips as if she had just accomplished something almost banal:
— There, it's settled!
Bakuran fell heavily seated, panting:
— Finally! I can't believe it… It was annoying, I swear!!
And through Time… Peace
What disappeared that day was not only the monsters of the present.
It was the Abominables and the Centipedes of all times.
For these entities had never been subjected to temporal linearity.
They existed simultaneously even among cavemen,
in the kingdoms of the digital future,
in the worlds that had never existed except as possibilities.
So when Shad Ruhvaël erased their source which was Raktabīja Rāvana…
The caves became silent.
The first humans, who for generations had lived in fear of crawling things that only the night understood, woke up one morning without fear, without knowing why.
They saw their children sleep peacefully, for the first time since that chaos.
The great ancient civilizations,
those that had raised walls not against human enemies but against nameless horrors, felt a millennial pressure disappear.
The protection rituals suddenly lost their reason for being.
The future kingdoms,
where the centipedes and Abominables had gnawed entire networks of digital realities, saw their systems stabilize, their virtual worlds stop flickering between being and non-being.
The gods who fought in the past and future
felt a new light, thin but real:
the possibility of a cosmos without that ancestral infection.
The civilizations, the myths, and the beings that should never have known peace… knew it finally.
Not a paradise.
Just a breathing world, rid of something it didn't even know how to name.
Niyus ⁵ finally arrived, clothes torn, breath short, a trace of blood on his temple.
He raised his hand in greeting, exhausted but smiling — it was over.
Bakuzan, still shaken, stared at Erasa suspiciously.
Bakuzan:
« How did you manage to stop all that? »
Erasa turned her head slightly, then replied with an almost insolent simplicity:
Erasa:
« I invoked the fragmentary order of Shad Ruhvaël to annihilate Raktabīja Rāvana. »
Bakuzan blinked.
Shad Ruhvaël?
That name alone made his spine shiver.
Bakuzan:
« Who… or what is Shad Ruhvaël? »
Erasa crossed her arms. Her voice became more measured, almost professorial, as if she were revealing a forbidden secret.
Erasa:
« The goddess Mü Thanatos is not a single entity.
We're talking about a Trinity:
Mü, the positive.
Everything that can be said, thought, told, imagined.
The luminous, constructive possible.
If Mü fades, all the positive disappears, including the gods.
Utha, the neutral.
The possible without orientation, without judgment, without value.
Thanatos, the negative.
Not death, but the destructive possible, the shadow, decomposition.
These three pillars form Mü Thanatos:
the total sum of everything that can be conceptualized in the Dream.
Absolutely everything, as well as the Dream itself. »
Bakuzan nodded slowly.
He understood… but one question remained.
Bakuzan:
« And Shad Ruhvaël? »
Erasa inhaled like someone about to state something too great for a mortal mind.
Erasa:
« Shad Ruhvaël is the absolute opposite of Mü Thanatos...not the negative..nor the moral opposite…
Absolute anteriority.
The negation of the possible.
The negation of Mü, of Utha, and of Thanatos.
The negation of the sum they form.
Shad is not nothingness:
it is the refusal of the possible.
She is nothing and refuses even to be "nothing." »
Bakuzan felt a cold shiver run down his spine.
Erasa continued:
« Shad Ruhvaël and Mü Thanatos are two distinct goddesses,
but also the same entity, in a paradox impossible to resolve.
They share the same body…
Without ever canceling each other out.
Because they need each other:
Mü Thanatos gives Shad Ruhvaël a support,
a framework, a possible that she can parasitize.
Shad Ruhvaël offers Mü Thanatos a limit,
a conceptual boundary that prevents overload and dissolution.
But here's the problem:
Shad Ruhvaël has no body, no thought, no intention.
She cannot do anything by herself.
She is a concept without a vector.
A refusal without a hand. »
Erasa lowered her head, almost as if she feared what she was describing.
« When Shad Ruhvaël appears…
She can only take possession of Mü Thanatos's body.
There, for an infinitely brief instant…
Absolute conceptualization becomes
absolute non-conceptualization.
Existence becomes
impossibility of existing.
The possible becomes
refusal of the possible....
And that is what I invoked.
That is what annihilated Raktabīja Rāvana.
A being without intention, without soul,
but carried by the very structure of the positive reality that it denies. »
Bakuzan opened his eyes wide.
Bakuzan:
« So Shad takes… control?
She invades the entire body of Mü Thanatos? »
Erasa nodded.
Erasa:
« Exactly.
Imagine an inert object possessed by the void.
The void moves the object…
But if you destroy the object, nothing remains.
No form.
No imprint.
No intention.
That's Shad Ruhvaël. »