Beneath Null's feet, the world cracked.
The Sovereign Ruins didn't wait for him to adapt—they twisted reality like a blade through silk. Each step he took birthed whispers, as if the ground remembered every god it had buried.
The shattered gate behind him sealed itself with a scream. The sky above… wasn't a sky anymore. It was a dome of inverted oceans, swirling with frozen corpses suspended mid-scream.
[World Rule Engaged: Layer One – Memory Constructs Active][Core Instability Detected. Mutation Probability Increased.]
Null welcomed it.
He wanted instability.
The ruins were silent… until they weren't.
Glass spires jutted out from the crimson-soaked ground, reflecting malformed figures—not his own, but thousands of versions of himself. Some rotting. Some weeping. Some wearing Sovereign crowns… and some headless.
"Found you."
The voice came from above. Something impossibly tall stood atop the largest spire, a woman with porcelain skin and no face, wrapped in layers of mirror shards and blood-veined silks. Her presence caused nearby glass to hum violently.
[Entity Identified: Remnant Sovereign – "Reflecting Queen of Silence"][Rank: Semi-Divine Wraith.]
She didn't descend.
She reflected herself into existence, stepping out of a nearby shard like a puppet on broken strings.
Null blinked.
She smiled without lips. Her eyes were mirrors.
"You don't belong. You're not supposed to awaken here."
He tilted his head. "And yet… here I am."
She stepped forward, dragging behind her a massive, living mirror—its surface showing thousands of screaming souls. They reached toward Null from within it, as if trying to cling to life through reflection.
[Warning: Mind Distortion Imminent.][Activating Hollow Core Suppression.]
Null's hands crackled with voidlight.
[New Skill Unlocked: "Anti-Reflection — Nullverse Collapse"][Passive Trigger: Illusion Reversal.]
The moment the Queen's image twisted reality—
—Null twisted it back.
Her face exploded into mirrored dust. The nearby spires shattered.
The souls in the glass screamed louder.
[EXP Absorbed: 15,900][Memory Fragment Gained: Sovereign Art — "Silent Devouring of Self"]
Her form collapsed into wet shards.
And behind her death… the ground split open.
A chasm, breathing.
A maw of a dead god buried beneath the kingdom of glass, opening in hunger. Rows of fossilized teeth clicked together as if chewing on eternity.
[World Event Triggered: The Maw Beneath][Warning: Path Forward Requires Sacrifice]
Null stepped forward.
Didn't hesitate.
Dropped the Queen's mirror into the abyss.
The ground inhaled.
And the world shifted again.