Chapter 99
The wind no longer moved.
The world held its breath, caught between the remnants of divine order and the rise of something no scripture had dared to write.
Kael and Vaern stood beneath the fractured sky, their flames coiled but not attacking—not yet.
They didn't burn outward.
They burned inward.Whole. Focused. One in silence, one in truth.
The gods, battered and bleeding starlight, floated above the cracked village.
One pointed a finger of pure law toward the boy.
"You are not justice. You are imbalance."
Vaern tilted his head.
"I am the consequence you buried."
A blade of celestial energy tore through the air.
Kael intercepted it, his flame shield pulsing blue.
"You want balance? You'll get it.But not the kind you wrote."
He thrust his hand forward, and the fire of his soul pulsed through the ground,rooted in choice—not obedience.
Eliendara's voice rang across the land, amplified by the blooming fig tree.
"The gods chose wrong!"
Scrolls burst open in temples across the continent.
Ancient bindings shattered.
And the true histories—ones erased by divine hands—began to whisper once again.
The youngest god, pale and shaking, stepped forward.
"It wasn't supposed to be like this…"
Vaern's voice was soft.
"You made me nothing."
"Now I am everything you tried to silence."
He raised one hand. The silver-black flame spiraled upward,forming a ring in the sky—not of destruction, but of judgment.
A mirror of memory.
And within it: every choice the gods had made.
Every child they'd abandoned.
Every lie they'd enforced.
"Look," Vaern said quietly, "and tell me this was balance."
One god fell to his knees, blinded by the truth of his own decisions.
Another screamed and disappeared into dust.
Only one remained.
The one who had made the final choice at the beginning of all things.
Kael turned to Vaern.
"What now?"
Vaern didn't answer.
He just stepped forward, fire flickering softly across his shoulders.
He faced the last god.
And spoke.
"It's your turn to kneel."
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As the last god faces the weight of forgotten sins,Vaern holds all creation in his hands.
Kael stands beside him—not as a shield, but as a brother.
And for the first time since the world began…fate asks permission.