The storm over Sunreach District had not stopped.Mana lightning carved fissures through the clouds, splitting sky and air alike. Chunks of broken reality — pulsing with violet and black static — hovered above the streets, raining raw ether into the ruins. Hundreds had been evacuated. Hundreds more hadn't.And beneath the broken sky, amid the warped stone and mana-scorched earth, Kai and Kaela Valen stood side by side — facing down a god that should not exist.The Revenant of Aevalon.Once the Deity of Memory, now corrupted, forgotten, and exiled into a dimension where time itself wept.And now he had returned.To kill the offspring of forbidden bloodlines.
His Voice
"You are fragments of blasphemy," the Revenant said, his voice slow, layered — as though ten versions of him spoke at once. "A dragon who broke her clan. A god who broke his oaths. And two mongrel souls sown into the world's womb.
"He took a step forward. The ground beneath him aged into dust.
"I am here to end you."Kai raised the Titan Fang Spear, now reshaped into a long double-bladed polearm, crackling with draconic wind.
"I've had enough people trying to 'end' me this week," he muttered.
Kaela stepped beside him, her radiant veil form flickering, her aetheric halo glowing gold behind her.
"You'll have to get through both of us," she said. "And we're not running."
System Override
[WARNING: Deity-Class Intrusion Confirmed]System Permission Lockdown in Progress…Player Authority: TEMPORARILY LIFTEDAuto-Sync Mode Activated
[Kai: Bloodline Trigger: Sovereign Initiate ➤ Primordial Ember Awakening (LOCKED)]
[Kaela: Bloodline Trigger: Dawnmother's Echo ➤ First Veil Ascension (LOCKED)]Unlock Condition: Survive.
The First Clash
The Revenant raised his hand.
Reality folded.
A lance of inverted mana — black lightning shaped like a forgotten memory — pierced the air toward Kaela. Kai moved without thinking. The spear deflected it, but the impact shattered a ten-meter radius, sending them flying through a fractured alley of warped debris.
Kaela slammed into the remains of a mana-crystal generator, coughing blood.
[Damage Received: 31% of Total HP]Radiant Veil: Fractured | Restoration Cooldown: 03:27]
"KAI!" she screamed.
But her brother was already airborne, diving down from above like a comet.
His spear shifted midair into a warblade, then into a chain-blade whip.
He struck.
And the Revenant caught it… between two fingers.
Kai's eyes widened.
And then the god smiled.
"You are not him," he whispered.
And crushed the weapon.
Kai's Inner Flame
[Emergency Protocol: Bloodlink Interface Breach]
Ancestral Key Fragment Detected: Vael'Aros — Second Flamebound Deity | Status: Imprisoned | Residual Link: ACTIVE]Suddenly, time slowed.Kai felt himself falling into an ocean of molten gold. Inside his chest — something opened.He saw it:A great silver cage, floating in a sea of stars, and within it, a man — his eyes burned with galaxies, his body wrapped in divine shackles. He turned."My son," he said, "the time is not yet now. But soon, you will awaken.""Who… are you?" Kai whispered.But part of him already knew.[Skill Fragment Unlocked: Dragon God Form – Sovereign Bloodflare]Status: Dormant | Activation Requires: Life Threshold < 15%]Kai gasped, heart hammering, vision blazing.And when he rose — his body was no longer quite human.
Kaela's Light
Kaela rose slowly.
Despite the fractured barrier.
Despite the broken ribs.
Despite the pain.
Because inside her, the shard of her mother still pulsed. Not dead. Not alive. Echoed.
And it sang now — with the voice of the Dawnmother, Seralyth of the Azure Veil."You are not meant to survive.
You are meant to rise."She lifted her staff.The sky split open with a column of golden-white flame — not heat, but clarity.And her body began to glow with divine sigils.
[Unlocked: Deific Form — Dawnveil Ascension: Phase I]
Time Limit: 3 minutes
Perks: Light Immunity | Temporal Recovery | Chain Healing Pulse]
She vanished from sight in a blink.Reappeared midair.And struck the Revenant across the face with a staff of condensed holy mana.The blow sent him spiraling.He did not laugh this time.He bled.
The Return of the Guild
Down below, the streets erupted with chaos — storm revenants and dungeon-born abominations rampaging across the district.But the guild had arrived.Rei. Mira. Dozens of elite Silver Vow explorers. Government squads. Beastfolk tacticians. Even a few black-market hunters drawn by the bounty.Alya led them herself — twin duskblades singing in the wind, cutting a bloody arc through anything in her way."Clear the perimeters!" she roared. "No one touches the twins. No one goes near the god."She looked up — and saw Kaela burning with dawnlight.And Kai's silhouette… shedding sparks of red and gold."…Stars preserve us," she whispered. "They're evolving."
Lore Drop: Echo of the Flamevault Scroll
Far from the battlefield, inside the deepest archive vault beneath Arcvale Cathedral, the final of the Three Forbidden Scrolls opened on its own.
The pages wrote themselves in divine ink:
"The Revenant of Aevalon was the first to fall.""But not the last."
"There are nine — and they walk again.""The Valen bloodline is the gatekeeper."
"And the flame shall decide the fate of gods."
Final Moments
As the battle climaxed, Kaela's divine form flared one last time.She wrapped herself in golden mana, forming a Barrier Dome that began to collapse time within its radius — slowing the Revenant's movements by 50%."Now, Kai!"Her brother launched forward.His weapon reshaped into a greatsword made of dragonbone and skyfire.
[Skill Triggered: Sovereign Blade – Fang of the Skyburn]
One slash.
And the Revenant screamed.Not in pain — but in recognition."You are his blood…"And with that, the body disintegrated into smoke.The dungeon collapsed in a flare of purple light.And the storm ceased.
AftermathSunreach District smoldered.Hundreds were injured.Dozens dead.But the god was gone.And the System had changed.Every explorer in the city received the same global alert:
[New Class of Dungeons Detected: Revenant-Class][Target Zones: Unknown | Frequency Rising][Warning: Interdimensional Law Break Confirmed][Mythical Realm Activity Level: WAKING]
The war had begun.And the world would never be the same again.
End of Chapter 5