*Chapter 6: "Crown of the Forgotten"**
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**Page 1:**
**Panel 1 (Full-page spread):** A desolate wasteland under a blood-red sky. The Deathless Prince—Jin's ash-storm form—looms like a hurricane of decay, his crown of Rot pulsing with malevolent light. Below, the Eclipse Society's stronghold, a monolithic obsidian tower, cracks under his shadow. **Caption**: *"The Prince does not rule. He* **erases.***"
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**Page 2:**
**Panel 1:** Inside the tower, the Harvester (Jin's mother's Shade) kneels before a faceless figure cloaked in starlight—**The Eclipse Sovereign**. **Sovereign**: *"Your failure is…* **unfortunate.***"
**Panel 2:** The Sovereign's hand phases through the Harvester's chest, extracting a writhing shadow. **Sovereign**: *"But his ascension was* **always** *the goal."*
**Panel 3:** The Harvester disintegrates, her final whisper: *"Jin…* **run.***"
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**Page 3:**
**Panel 1:** The Deathless Prince tears through the tower's defenses. Cultists burst into ash at his touch. **Sound Effect**: *HHHSSSSKKK—* (dissolving screams).
**Panel 2:** Yuri, now missing her right arm, limps through the chaos. Her blue eye is cracked. **Yuri**: *"You're not a king… You're a* **blight.***"
**Panel 3:** Jin's voice booms from the storm: *"YOU MADE ME THIS!"*
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**Page 4:**
**Panel 1:** Flashback: Yuri as a child, chained in the Eclipse Society's labs. The Sovereign forces her to ingest a Shade-core. **Young Yuri**: *"I don't want to be a monster!"*
**Panel 2:** Present. Yuri's remaining eye flares blue. *"I survived. Now it's your turn."* She hurls a vial of liquid Rot into the storm.
**Panel 3:** The storm convulses. Jin's human face flickers in the ash.
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**Page 5:**
**Panel 1:** The Sovereign floats above the tower, their cloak unraveling into constellations. **Sovereign**: *"The Veyra Rot is* **ours.** *You are a vessel… nothing more."*
**Panel 2:** The Sovereign's hands weave starlight into chains, binding the ash-storm. **Sound Effect**: *CLANG—* (cosmic metal).
**Panel 3:** Jin's crown cracks. **Deathless Prince (internal)**: *"Lira… Min-ah…* **Help me.***"
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**Page 6:**
**Panel 1:** Min-ah's ghost materializes within the storm, her form glowing faintly. **Min-ah**: *"You saved me. Now let me* **save you.***"
**Panel 2:** She merges with the Rot, her light stabilizing Jin's form. The ash-storm condenses into a humanoid figure—Jin's body restored, but his skin marbled with black veins.
**Panel 3:** **Jin (human/Prince hybrid)**: *"I'm…* **here.***"
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**Page 7:**
**Panel 1:** The Sovereign recoils as Jin walks through their starlight chains. **Sovereign**: *"The Rot cannot defy* **fate—**"
**Panel 2:** Jin's hand phases into the Sovereign's chest. *"Fate's a story. And I'm* **ending** *yours."*
**Panel 3:** He rips out a pulsating star—a Shade-core of cosmic scale. The Sovereign's cloak collapses into dust.
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**Page 8:**
**Panel 1:** The tower crumbles. Yuri watches, her expression unreadable. **Yuri**: *"What now, Prince?"*
**Panel 2:** Jin crushes the star-core. Galaxies flicker and die in his palm. **Jin**: *"I find who* **really** *started this."*
**Panel 3:** The core's remnants form a map—a pulsating arrow pointing to a hidden realm. **Text on Map**: *"The First Grave."*
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**Page 9:**
**Panel 1:** Min-ah's voice echoes from Jin's veins. *"The First Grave… where life and death began."*
**Panel 2:** Yuri's chains reappear, reforged from Jin's Rot. *"I'm coming with you. Not for you. For* **me.***"
**Panel 3:** Jin's hybrid eyes narrow—one void, one human. *"Try to betray me… and I'll unmake you* **slowly.***"
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**Page 10 (Full-page cliffhanger):**
**Panel 1:** The wasteland parts, revealing a gargantuan tree made of skeletons, roots coiled around a black sun. **Caption**: *"The First Grave."*
**Panel 2:** At the tree's base, a figure identical to Jin sits on a throne of Rot—**the original Deathless Prince.**
**Cliffhanger Text**: *"Every king… needs a heir."*
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**Key Developments**:
- **Jin's Duality**: Restored to a hybrid form, balancing humanity and Rot—for now.
- **The First Grave**: The source of all necromancy, guarded by Jin's progenitor.
- **Yuri's Redemption?**: Her motives shift from exploitation to survival, hinting at alliance.
**Visual Insanity**:
- **Cosmic Horror**: The Sovereign's starlight vs. Jin's organic Rot.
- **The First Grave Tree**: A Lovecraftian nightmare of bone and anti-light.
**Addictive Hooks**:
- **The Original Prince**: A mirror of Jin's potential future—tyrant or savior?
- **Yuri's Arm**: Her missing limb now regenerates as a Shade-powered weapon.
- **Min-ah's Fate**: Her ghost is fused with Jin's power—can she hold him back from corruption?
**Tone**: Existential dread meets operatic vengeance. Jin's journey shifts from victim to revolutionary—but at what cost?