Scene: The Unwritten Realm – The Blind Library
No colors exist here.
No sound. No time.
Only endless shelves of unwritten stories—tales never imagined, heroes never conceived, and fates left blank.
And in the center… a figure stirs.
He steps down from a throne carved from discarded prologues, his long coat trailing shadows across reality.
"So," he mutters, voice rich and cold, "the Void Prince finally fulfilled his arc."
"But what of the first? The original? The one who never needed cliffhangers or fan votes?"
He steps into the light.
Damien Graves.
Who is Damien Graves?
Not born. Written.
Not a hero. An origin.
The first self-insert not born of fandom… but of ambition.
Created by a writer who never published. Forgotten by the multiverse. But Graves didn't fade.
He learned. He grew. He devoured genres.
And now?
"It's time for the story…
to fear the reader."
Scene Shift – Ben's Sanctuary
Ben and Ryunosuke return to the restored Nexus.
Amara stabilizes the fractures, her hands glowing as she mends plot holes with strands of emotional resonance.
But Ben senses it.
A ripple.
"Someone new just crossed the barrier," he murmurs.
A book falls from the sky—bound in skin, sealed with obsidian glyphs.
Ryunosuke picks it up. The title is etched in crimson:
"Ascension Protocol: Damien Graves"
Suddenly, reality glitches.
The book opens itself.
Damien Speaks Across Pages
"Hello, dear void-born."
"You've played with rewrites and won.
You've defied canon. Bravo."
"But I am not a rewrite. I am the void between chapters.
I am the story never told… because the world feared its ending."
Across the Multiverse – Strange Events Unfold
In the One Piece world, Luffy forgets his dream.
In the Naruto universe, all characters vanish—replaced by gray mannequins labeled "Template."
In the Marvel multiverse, the Watcher sees only static.
In the Mirror Dimension, Doctor Strange screams as his spells unwrite themselves mid-cast.
Everywhere, the same whisper is heard:
"Graves is coming."
Ben's Realization – The Anti-Author
"He's not just a villain. He's a reader that turned into a writer who turned into a godless editor.
He doesn't want to join the story.
He wants to erase every author."
Ryunosuke grips his new, unstable quill-sword.
"Then we stop him."
Ben shakes his head.
"We can't—not with power.
Only with meaning."
Cliffhanger – The First Rewrite Must Return
To fight Graves, they must do the unthinkable.
Ben turns to the fractured remnants of the multiverse… and makes a choice:
"Bring back… the original Damien.
The one I used to be… before I became the Void Prince."
The multiverse gasps.
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Chapter 61 – Ben Before the Void: The Human Rewrite]