The cosmos was quiet. Orion stood in the remnants of what was once a battlefield, now a realm of endless possibilities.
Seraphina smiled softly. "It's over."
Lyra took his hand. "Or rather… it's just beginning."
The stars above shimmered with new light, and for the first time, Orion felt truly free.
But deep in the shadows, something stirred.
Because where one paradox ends… another begins.
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The saga continues. What new mysteries lie ahead? Is the paradox truly broken, or has Orion merely opened a new door? The next chapter will reveal more than ever before!
Chapter 35: Shadows in the Light
The battle was over. Or so they thought.
Orion stood amidst the stardust of the Veiled Queen's remnants, Lyra's hand clasped in his. Seraphina exhaled deeply, feeling the weight of an eternity of conflict lift from her shoulders.
But then… the sky darkened.
A ripple spread through the cosmos, a whisper slithering through the void. It was not the Queen's voice—it was something older, something that had waited in the darkness.
A chilling laugh echoed through the remnants of time itself.
"Did you truly believe you were free? The paradox is not broken… merely reformed."
Orion's blood ran cold as a new figure emerged from the fragments of collapsed reality. A figure draped in an abyssal cloak, its form shifting like the void itself. Eyes that burned with knowledge and hunger.
"You have unchained the cosmos, Orion," the figure said. "But with chains removed, chaos rises. You have freed something far worse than the Veiled Queen."
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