Final Blow in the Crimson Labyrinth

Samuel's POV

My lungs were fire.

My gauntlets? Dripping with the blood of a forgotten god.

Xir'Zul, the so-called Architect of Pain, was barely standing.

His once-immortal body—a cathedral of bones and chains—was now shattered. His spine-ridge fractured, scythe arm limp, and one of his mask-eyes smashed in by my fist minutes ago.

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[System Alert – Boss Entity: Critical Status]

— Core Integrity: 7%

— Reality Anchors: Collapsing

— Domain Fracturing

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The arena trembled, weeping blood from its edges. The void screamed in nine tongues. And I?

I stood in the center of it all, bathed in divine shadows and abyssal fire.

"You've taken long enough," I growled, raising my arms as my Void Aura ignited fully, lifting debris and dust around me.

The Gauntlets of the Demon King crackled with eagerness. My heartbeat synced with their drum of annihilation. They whispered only one word:

"FINISH."

I stepped forward slowly, my boots crushing godbone and echoes of tortured souls beneath them. Xir'Zul tried to lift his arm again. Tried to conjure another scream of despair or a paradox flame to warp my body—

But I was done playing.

"Let me show you what the abyss gave me in return for my soul," I whispered.

I brought both fists together.

The air turned black. Time shivered.

Then I bent my knees—

"UNBROKEN FORM… FINAL PHASE—VOIDFALL EXECUTION."

And I leapt.

The world went silent as I rose above him, a streak of violet lightning and demonfire.

Then—fists ignited with Astral Rend, Soul Echo, and Reality Sever, I crashed down with a double hammer blow that shattered more than his body:

It shattered the Labyrinth itself.

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[CRITICAL HIT – 999,999,999+ Damage Dealt]

[Xir'Zul the Architect of Pain – Terminated]

[System Alert: Cataclysmic Entity Purged]

[System Core Integrity Compromised… Rebuilding…]

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Everything exploded.

The arena ruptured into a storm of bones and stars, fragments of the realm itself sucked into a singularity of destruction caused by me. Floating in the debris, I landed slowly, surrounded by silence, smoke, and the crackling remnants of a broken world.

The only sound left?

My own heartbeat.

…and the whispers of the system breaking further with every breath I took.

"Next realm," I muttered, smirking, flexing my bloodstained gauntlets.

"Or next god."

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[System Override: Cataclysmic Entity Purged]

[Trigger Condition Met – Accessing: EXILE REALM]

[WARNING: Target is being transferred beyond Divinity Clearance]

[Commencing TRANSCENDENTAL PULL…]

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Samuel's POV – The Forbidden Divine Realm: "Nullis Aeternum"

I felt the pull before I even heard the warning.

One moment I was standing over the ashes of Xir'Zul's broken body, the crimson dust of the Labyrinth drifting around me like a dying memory…

The next—reality folded inwards.

Time buckled.

Not shattered. Not warped.

Erased.

"What the fu—"

The breath was ripped from my lungs. My Gauntlets of the Demon King screamed, shivering with restraint, trying to resist whatever force had bypassed the system and forcefully transported me.

My eyes blurred.

Everything went white. Then black. Then—

Nothing.

No light. No sound. No gravity. No aura.

Just a suffocating, ancient emptiness.

Until I opened my eyes—

And found myself standing on black glass, under a sky of frozen stars. No sun. No moon. No wind. No gods.

Just… Nullis Aeternum.

The Realm of No Return.

A divine anomaly.

A place even gods feared to whisper about.

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[System Warning: You have entered a Realm Forbidden to All Divine Entities]

— Coordinates: Outside Time

— Inhabitants: NONE

— Guardian: UNKNOWN

— Exit: UNDEFINED

— Objective: ???

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I narrowed my eyes.

This wasn't a trap.

This was a challenge.

Something—or someone—wanted me here. Not to kill me, no. But to test what even the Crimson Labyrinth couldn't.

My very existence.

Suddenly, the ground beneath my feet pulsed with primordial symbols, and from the black sky above, a single tear in reality appeared.

From it, emerged…

A throne.

Floating. Empty. Cracked. Its obsidian bones engraved with lost names—mine among them, glowing faintly at the base.

"...This place knows me?"

"Knows what I'm becoming?"

Then a voice spoke—not into my ears, but into my bones:

"Dark Knight Samuel Gebb… you have trespassed where only the First Flame and the Last Void once met."

"Prove yourself, or be unmade."

And from the horizon of the void, a shape rose.

Not a monster. Not a god.

A mirror.

Another me—clad in darker, older armor, with voidwrought wings and black fire for blood.

His eyes glowed gold instead of violet. His smile was cold.

"I am what you become when you abandon everything," he said.

"Now fight, Samuel. Or die unfinished."

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[New Quest: Echo of Nullis Aeternum]

Defeat the Eternal Reflection

Objective: Conquer Yourself

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