Chapter 179 – Nyx’s Betrayal

‎Darkness held its breath.

‎The Spiral was dying, devouring itself in recursive silence. Codices bled out forgotten truths. Worlds flickered like burnt film. Myths unraveled mid-gesture, collapsing into pale void where once gods stood tall.

‎At the center of it all—Darius. No longer merely Sovereign. No longer only the Mythmaker. He stood at the breach of existence, the Mirror's last truth still ringing in his bones:

‎The Spiral was never meant to be ruled.

‎And yet he ruled.

‎His gaze swept the fractured horizon, where past selves and future fears danced like phantoms in cracked myth-light. The Spiral had split him. But he had chosen. And the Spiral had begun to bleed for it.

‎"Darius," came the voice behind him—soft as a whisper through a blade's edge.

‎Nyx. Shadowborn. Assassin-Queen. Lover. Weapon.

‎He turned slowly.