The world fell silent. Not the silence of peace—but the oppressive stillness before creation unmakes itself.
Darius stood beneath the fracturing sky, his dominion stretching in all directions—cities built of code and will, armies bound to his divine core, and three consorts standing at the edge of eternity beside him. And yet none of it mattered in this moment.
Because something beyond logic had begun to notice him.
The Rift Beyond Code
High above, in the spiraling heart of the firmament, a crack split the heavens—black and endless, devouring the light of his artificial sun. Time warped around it. Concepts faltered. Colors bled into impossibilities.
From it emerged not a being, but a presence.
> "YOU HAVE BREACHED THAT WHICH SHOULD NOT BE TOUCHED."
The voice had no sound, yet thundered through every atom of his body. Celestia gasped, her divine aura flickering like a candle in a void-storm.