Chapter 53 – "The Architect and the Chaos"
Valt burst into a dark laugh.
— "Oh, I'm terrified… You really think a twig could scare me?"
A wicked smile twisted his face.
— "I'll deal with all three of you."
Valen frowned, Elyonna vibrated in his hand.
— "Yeah? Come try your luck, budget clone."
Valen charged.
A flash of energy split the air as he swung his sword.
Valt caught the blade with his bare hand — the stars in his eyes spinning at a furious pace.
> — "Told you that twig wouldn't do a thing."
Then his fist sliced through the air.
Valen barely dodged, his eyes glowing, pupils shaped like stars.
— "Oh yeah? Let's see if you're still laughing after this!"
He spun, ready to counterattack, but Zarion surged in a burst of blue and delivered a kick so fast it made the ground tremble.
Valt blocked with crossed arms, slid back a few meters, then flipped backward and placed his hand on the ground.
Space warped around him, a low rumble echoed.
> — "Impressive. But now it's my turn."
Valen gripped his blade.
— "I don't like the way he talks. It's like… too theatrical."
Elyonna: — "And you think you're subtle?"
— "Hey, at least I'm funny."
Valt took a single step.
Just one.
But everything vibrated. Air, light—even gravity seemed unsure of its own existence around him.
The stars in his eyes spun like raging galaxies.
A cold smile stretched across his lips.
> — "Looks like you're all here… You, Valen… you, Zarion… and you, Aeternus."
He pointed a finger at the Architect.
> — "I'll start with you. You who sealed me. You who played god. Today, you'll taste the shame of an architect whose structure collapses."
Aeternus remained unmoved.
His voice, calm, echoed like thunder in the void.
> — "You're free, Valt. But don't rejoice. Your freedom means imbalance… and I am the cure to that chaos."
Valt spread his arms:
> — "Oh, but I am chaos! And I've waited for this moment through centuries frozen beyond time!"
His black aura erupted, pulverizing the stones beneath him.
Space cracked, a rain of white sparks falling like fragments of reality.
Zarion stepped back, teeth clenched.
> — "This pressure… he's on another level."
Valen, however, remained calm. Too calm.
His gaze locked onto Valt.
— "It's strange… I understand this guy. He's me… but a worse version."
Elyonna: — "Strange or suicidal, I'm not sure. He called you a twig, remember?"
— "Exactly. Time to remind him why I'm the whole damn tree."
Valt laughed—a twisted, heatless sound.
> — "You? A failed version, a pawn playing hero? Get lost."
He raised his hand.
A black wave tore through the air, screaming across the dimension.
But before Valen could react, Aeternus lifted a finger.
The attack disintegrated into a shower of golden sparks.
> — "Enough talk."
The Architect stepped forward.
The ground began to vibrate. Golden patterns spread beneath his feet, forming a perfect circle.
> — "If you want to test your strength, come. But remember: I am the one who builds… and the one who destroys anomalies."
Valt smiled—a smile that could freeze a volcano.
> — "Then build me a tomb. If you can."
Valen clenched his teeth, raising Elyonna.
— "He just threatened the Architect? This guy is officially an interdimensional psychopath."
Elyonna: — "You just described most of your friend group, Valen."
— "Fair point."
Zarion:
— "You're really going to provoke him now?"
Valen: — "What do you want me to do? Offer him coffee?"
Valt erupted in maniacal laughter.
> — "Perfect. Three against one. Let's see how many realities I can shatter before your bodies collapse."
Aeternus raised a hand.
A golden energy sphere appeared, stabilizing space—for a moment.
Valt raised his own.
The universe trembled again.
Two absolute forces collided.
Space groaned.
Colors blended.
And at the center, Valen murmured, a nervous smile on his lips:
— "Alright… Elyonna, you ready?"
— "Always. And this time, I'm aiming for the head."
— "Perfect. Because I'm aiming for his ego."
They both charged.
Their clash detonated the dimension.
Chapter 54 – Judgment of Chaos
Valt stood before Valen, Zarion, and Aeternus.
The air vibrated, saturated with raw energy. Space itself twisted, as if reality feared witnessing what was about to unfold.
Zarion spun his ring, which transformed into a long black sword etched with runes.
— "I'm going to make you see the truth," he whispered, a murderous gleam in his eyes.
Valen, arms crossed, smirked.
— "I feel sorry for you, honestly. I'm crying inside."
Elyonna sighed in his mind.
— "You're weird, bro. Stop clowning around before he crushes you for real."
— "It's my special technique: emotional provocation."
— "You mean assisted suicide."
A vein pulsed on Valt's temple.
— "I don't need your pity, you arrogant fool."
A heavy silence fell.
Even time seemed to pause, as if the universe itself was holding its breath.
Aeternus slowly raised his hand, his golden gaze locked on Valt.
His voice echoed like a divine decree:
> — "Valt, incarnation of corruption… I will erase you—not for what you are, but for what you dare to threaten."
Valt let out a cold laugh.
> — "You think you can contain what you've never understood? You're obsolete, old architect."
Without warning, he charged, his body morphing into a swarm of shadows before reforming in front of Aeternus.
His fist, charged with black energy, tore through the air with cataclysmic force.
Aeternus raised two fingers.
A golden wall of energy rose, inscribed with ancient glyphs.
The impact shook the entire dimension.
> — "Stability Theorem: Paradox Nullified."
The shockwave hurled Valt backward, but he rose instantly, laughing.
> — "That's what I wanted! Let's go all out!"
Valen appeared behind him like a shadow.
A horizontal slash tore through the void.
Valt dodged with a leap, but Valen teleported instantly in front of him, blade already poised.
Valt blocked with a punch saturated in dark energy.
The impact shattered the ground into thousands of shadow fragments.
He retaliated with a flurry of lightning-fast kicks.
Valen parried each strike, his movements tracing arcs of light.
Zarion lunged from behind, his black sword carving a line through the air.
— "Dark Zephyr!"
Valt instantly summoned a blade: the Nexus Sword, a relic of Vael.
The two swords clashed in a stellar explosion.
But Valen seized the opening and delivered a kick that sent Valt crashing through a dimensional rift.
> — "And that one was free!" Valen laughed.
Aeternus extended his hand.
A staff of pure gold appeared, sculpted from primordial light.
At its tip glowed a crystal containing a thousand miniature universes.
> — "Harmonic Judgment."
He struck the ground.
A wave of golden light surged forth, transforming into a purifying beam aimed directly at Valt.
Valt calmly looked up, the stars in his pupils spinning wildly.
The beam vanished… as if it had never existed.
> — "That's your attack? Pathetic."
He charged again, his sword forming a black vortex.
Aeternus countered, wrapped in a radiant golden halo.
Their collision detonated reality.
Constellations were born and died in a fraction of a second.
Physical laws disintegrated, replaced by pure chaos.
Zarion, from a distance, raised his sword.
An invisible slash tore through the void and severed Valt's arm.
Valt staggered, grimacing—but his arm regenerated instantly, rebuilt by strands of cosmic energy.
— "Tch… You're persistent."
He was immediately flanked: Aeternus from the front, Valen from behind.
Aeternus became a torrent of pure light, unleashing strikes as fast as lightning.
Valt blocked each one with his twin blades—until Valen struck from his blind spot.
A storm of blows rained down.
In a furious reflex, Valt summoned a second Nexus Sword to block attacks from all directions.
Elyonna shouted in Valen's mind:
— "Now!"
Valen gripped his sword tightly. A divine light burst from the blade.
— "Decretum… Divinum!"
He brought the weapon down.
A wave of celestial energy swept across the battlefield, fracturing the entire dimension.
Valt screamed, his energy armor cracking under the blast.
Fragments of light and shadow collided in a silent cataclysm.
Aeternus extended his hand, channeling the remaining flux to prevent the dimension from collapsing.
Zarion drove his sword into the ground to stabilize himself.
Valen, panting, stared at the swirling cloud of energy before him.
A laugh echoed.
Valt emerged slowly from the dust, his body half-regenerated, his smile wider than ever.
> — "Not bad… Really not bad. But you haven't seen anything yet."
Valen smirked.
— "If that was your warm-up, I'm gonna need a second Elyonna."
Elyonna: — "No way. One of me is already too much for your brain."
— "Touché."
Valt's body fully regenerated.
His aura erupted, warping reality around him.
The sky of the dimension cracked, revealing fragments of inverted stars.
> — "You want to play?" he said with a manic grin.
— "Hahahahahaha! Then… let's play."
His aura exploded—a fusion of black, gold, and stellar energy.
Every particle of light screamed, every shadow trembled under his power.
Elyonna: — "Uh, Valen… you got a plan? Because I didn't sign up to fight a walking Big Bang."
Valen: — "Yeah, I've got a plan."
Elyonna: — "Go on, impress me."
Valen: — "Hit harder."
Elyonna: — "Brilliant plan, Einstein."
Valt slowly raised his hand, his two swords fusing, devouring the surrounding light.
Aeternus gripped his staff.
— "He's activating Phase Two… Astral Resonance."
Zarion cursed under his breath.
— "Great. We just survived Phase One."
Valen cracked his neck, an amused smile on his lips.
— "Alright then… Round two. And this time, I might actually cry."
Chapter 54 – Judgment of Chaos (Part II)
The air vibrated, saturated with power.
Bursts of golden, black, and scarlet energy collided, tearing through the skies of a dimension already on its last breath — as if the universe itself wanted to change the channel.
Valt slowly raised his hand, a predatory grin on his lips.
His two swords fused with a cosmic rumble, forming a titanic blade, pulsing with a power so intense even light hesitated to stick around.
— "This time… we're playing for real," he murmured, his stellar eyes spinning at a disturbing speed, like divine fans on turbo mode.
He leapt.
A moment later, he was in front of Aeternus.
He grabbed the god by the head and slammed him into the ground, triggering a dimensional quake.
The shockwave sent Valen and Zarion flying like poorly glued action figures.
Aeternus tried to rise, but Valt raised his sword, ready to finish the job.
> — "End of divine structure. Dissolution of concept."
His blade came down —
— CLANG!
Valen blocked the strike at the last second.
The impact shattered the ground, creating a crater so deep you could see the reflections of the void… and maybe an old cosmic subway ticket.
— "I said it's not your turn, damn it!"
— "Always getting in the way, Valen," Valt growled.
— "Yeah, kinda my thing. Being annoying."
A vein pulsed on Valt's temple before he vanished, reappearing behind him.
But Valen anticipated, spun around, and parried the counterattack.
The two exchanged a flurry of sword strikes, their silhouettes flickering in every direction, too fast for even a caffeinated divine eye to follow.
Each impact erased a chunk of reality.
(The cosmic equivalent of a graphical glitch.)
Aeternus, now standing, extended his hand.
Golden energy chains erupted from the ground, closing in on Valt.
> — "Cosmic Seal: Bonds of Pure Void."
But Valt chuckled, his aura bursting like a steroid-infused black sun.
The chains crumbled into dust.
— "You think you can bind corruption? Keep dreaming, you shiny old ornament!"
Zarion appeared to his left, his shadowy aura rising in wisps.
He raised his sword, channeling abyssal energy into its tip.
> — "Ultimate Technique… Oblivion Sever!"
The blade sliced through the air, unleashing a black wave that devoured everything in its path — including the laws of physics.
Valt barely blocked it, but the force of the impact launched him skyward like a cursed projectile.
While he floated, Aeternus raised his golden staff toward the heavens.
A divine chant echoed through the dimension, a sound even the stars seemed to listen to… and probably Shazam.
> — "Sacred Cannon: Choir of Origins."
Concentric rings of light formed around Valt before exploding in a deluge of pure energy.
But Valt opened his eyes — his stellar pupils spun — and the explosion vanished… erased from history itself.
(Check the cosmic archives — it's like it never happened.)
He landed slowly, his aura now unleashed.
> — "Your attacks no longer matter. You're predictable… weak… boring."
He lunged, his blade slicing through the dimension toward Zarion.
The two warriors clashed in a duel of divine intensity.
Each strike shattered sound, light, gravity… and probably the nerves of a few spectator entities.
Zarion looked calm, but his arm trembled under the pressure.
— "Is that all?" Valt mocked.
— "No. That's just… the appetizer."
Suddenly, Valen charged, his aura erupting like a divine volcano.
Elyonna screamed in his mind:
— "Now!"
Valen raised the Judgment Blade, which pulsed with celestial light.
The blade multiplied into a myriad of luminous fragments, swirling around him like a swarm of stars ready to strike.
> — "Judgment of a Thousand Blades!"
Elyonna added mockingly:
— "An omnidirectional attack impossible to dodge for an impure soul! (And also for arrogant blowhards.)"
The thousand blades descended.
Valt tried to repel them, but each carried the combined power of Valen and Elyonna — a blend of chaos, light, and pure sarcasm.
A colossal explosion ravaged the battlefield, illuminating the entire dimension with divine brilliance.
(The kind of brilliance that makes a supernova look like a nightlight.)
When the light faded, Valt was on his knees, his armor cracked, his eyes spinning wildly.
He panted, a mad laugh escaping his throat.
> — "Not bad… But if you thought that was enough…"
He burst into laughter — a laugh that echoed like a cosmic glitch.
— "Ahaha… now we're gonna have fun."
Chapter 55 — The Awakening of Chaos
Valt kept laughing. A cold, deranged laugh that echoed like a death knell across the shattered arena. Zarion and Valen attacked from all sides, their blades slicing through the air, tracing arcs of light and fury. The strikes came fast, unpredictable. But Valt saw them all. He blocked each one with terrifying ease, as if dancing in the heart of a storm.
Then, in a titanic clash, he parried Valen's sword. The impact shook the ground, hurling shards of stone and waves of destruction. Valt stepped forward, his gaze incandescent:
— Why haven't you become like me, Valen? After everything you've endured… the losses, the betrayals, the pain… why haven't you fallen? Why haven't you embraced the truth? The one that consumes… the one that frees.
Valen, panting, eyes burning with resolve, gripped his blade tighter:
— Because even in darkness, there are flames that cannot be extinguished. No matter what we endure, there will always be forces greater than us. Good people, bad people… sometimes it's not their fault. It's their nature. But that's no excuse to become a monster. It's not a reason to abandon what makes us human.
— You speak like a child, spat Valt. Your words are meaningless.
He raised his hand, and black energy gathered in his palm. Then he roared:
> — "Supreme Rupture: Disintegration of the Soul's Concept!"
A blade of pure energy struck Valen head-on.
The impact was cataclysmic. Valen was hurled across kilometers, crashing through multiple dimensional layers before slamming into the ground. The earth cracked beneath him.
But before Valt could advance, Zarion reappeared. Their clash became frenzied. They vanished and reappeared, their strikes unleashing shockwaves that devastated the landscape. Even the sky seemed to twist under their power.
Suddenly, Valen emerged behind Valt, his eyes glowing with a new light. He screamed:
> — "Final Judgment: Blade of the Last Oath!"
He struck Valt in the back, unleashing an explosion of pure light.
Zarion seized the opening, crossing his arms to form an X of abyssal energy.
> — "Abyssal Requiem: The End of Shadow!"
The two attacks fused into a deluge of energy that engulfed Valt.
The ground collapsed, the dimension screamed, light devoured everything.
As the explosion faded, Aeternus was already in position, staff raised.
Ancient runes lit up around him.
> — "Cosmic Judgment Ritual: Circle of the Primordial Seal."
Golden chains appeared, wrapping around Valt.
They didn't come from magic… but from the very concept of destiny.
But as the seal closed, memories flooded the demon's mind.
---
Memory — The Day Everything Changed
A newborn. Valt. White hair, red pupils, irises shaped like white stars. A woman with pale pink hair held him in her arms. Tired, but gentle. She raised her finger, and Valt grabbed her thumb—curious, innocent.
A silhouette appeared behind her.
— You know why I'm here, said Aeternus. This child is a threat to creation. I must eliminate him.
The mother lowered her eyes, then lifted them again, filled with tears and fire:
— I know… but I can't let you kill my flesh and blood.
She looked at Valt and smiled. He spoke his first word:
— Mama…
She held him close, then tried to flee. But Aeternus blocked her path.
— I don't want to kill you. But I must preserve the balance. You're a guardian of a world. You understand.
The mother summoned a lance of energy:
— I understand. But I can't let you do this.
She placed Valt on the ground:
— Don't worry. Mama will protect you.
The battle began. Violent. Tragic. In the end, Aeternus pierced her heart. She slowly disintegrated, like a dying star.
Valt took his first steps, stumbling toward her:
— Mama… sobbing
She smiled one last time:
— My child… don't worry. Mama is just leaving. She'll come back…
Then she whispered to Aeternus:
— I beg you… don't kill my child.
Shaken, Aeternus sealed Valt instead of destroying him.
---
Back to the Present — The Rupture
Valt screamed:
— AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Valt looked Aeternus in the eyes and said:
"You will pay for this."
- Valen said: "I can no longer feel the rose."