There were no stars in the Thronesea.
Only the remnants of those that had dared to shine.
The Veilgate spat the boy out like a rejected memory, casting him into a world that didn't just reject light—it consumed it.
For the first time since waking up in that rusted battlefield, he felt small. Not because of the size of the world around him—it had no discernible shape—but because the System itself trembled to describe this place.
❖ Realm: [Thronesea Abyss]
❖ Alignment: Null-Origin / Root-Classified
❖ Threat Level: Unknown (WARNING: Reality Discontinuity Detected)
❖ System Stability: 27%
❖ Throne Fragment Presence: Confirmed
❖ Echo III Objective: Survive Initiation.
→ You are not the first to enter.
→ But you must be the last to leave.
He drifted in what looked like an ocean of broken glass. Each shard reflected a different version of him—some young, some older, all dead.
Each one bore a crown.
Each one failed.
He reached toward one fragment out of instinct, and it screamed.
❖ Warning: Fragment of Dead Self Detected.
❖ Accessing Last Memory Trace…
The vision flooded him.
He saw a Thronebearer like himself, wrapped in gold, speaking to an army of realmwalkers. This version had chosen unity. He preached salvation. He built alliances.
And they betrayed him.
His death had been slow—buried beneath the weight of a crown too heavy for peace.
The vision ended with a single phrase burned into the air:
"Even unity bows to power. And power kneels to nothing."
Back in the present, the boy felt a weight settle over his shoulders—not guilt, but inevitability.
He wasn't here to redeem his other selves.
He was here to succeed where they all failed.
The Thronesea trembled.
A figure rose from its depths—massive, twisted, humanoid only in outline. Its crown was a chain of black stars. Its eyes were portals of broken law.
And it knew him.
❖ System Entity Detected: [Gravethrone Core – Failed Manifestation]
❖ Class: Anti-Sovereign Construct
❖ Threat Rating: Worldkiller / Origin Bane
❖ Combat Authorization: GRANTED
→ Only a Thronebreaker can face it.
The entity raised a hand, and with it came the weight of every timeline he had never lived.
The boy could barely breathe.
❖ System Strain: 94%
❖ System Alert: Accessing Emergency Protocol
❖ Unlocking Class Skill: [Thronebreaker Instinct – Lawshatter Pulse]
He moved.
Faster than thought, faster than fate.
Nullfang extended in his hand, glowing with the accumulated power of two fragments, singing with the voice of rebellion.
He didn't aim for the entity's head.
He aimed for its crown.
The impact detonated across dimensions.
❖ Lawshatter Pulse: Activated
❖ Effect: Destroys one governing principle of the enemy Realm.
→ Principle Destroyed: [Causal Eternity]
→ Result: Entity is no longer immortal.
It screamed—a cry of betrayal, rage, and fear. The construct lashed out, flinging planets of bone and rivers of dead time. Every strike carved holes in the Thronesea, revealing twisted versions of Earth, Elaros, Vexidian Voidscapes—realities he could have lived.
He fought in silence.
Every parry rewrote a law.
Every step forward was a rebellion against every version of him that surrendered.
Until, finally, the boy stood atop the construct's collapsing body.
The crown hovered before him now—shattered, but offering itself.
❖ Gravethrone Core: Available
❖ Accept to gain Authority over Origin-Locked Realms
❖ Warning: Acceptance will overwrite [Thronebreaker] designation.
→ You will no longer be able to destroy Thrones.
→ You will become one.
His hand hovered over the crown.
And stopped.
"No."
He reached past it, into the glowing abyss at the center of the core.
There, wrapped in silence and memory, was the final fragment.
❖ Memory Fragment III Acquired
❖ Echo Chain Complete
❖ System Upgrade in Progress…
The Thronesea howled.
The crown cracked.
And the Veil opened once more—not gently, not cleanly, but with resistance. As if the Realms themselves had realized what he was about to become.
❖ New Title Gained: [Anomaly Prime – Thronebreaker Completed]
❖ New Passive: "Lawless Dominion" – You no longer obey the foundational laws of created realms.
❖ New Active: "Crown Eater" – Devour and erase lesser Thrones permanently.
❖ Unlocking Subsystem: [The Crucible of Collapse]
→ Begin forging your own Realm.
As the Thronesea cracked behind him, and the final crown shattered into nothing, the boy looked at the shards reflecting a thousand other lives.
None of them mattered anymore.
He wasn't a Thronebearer.
He wasn't a savior.
He was a Breaker.
And it was time the Realms learned what that meant.