The battlefield had become ink and thought—no longer soil, sky, or flame, but layers of stories written, erased, rewritten again.
And in the middle of it all stood The Narrator.
Neither fully villain nor hero, neither completely system nor rebel—she was what remained when the plot was lost, the voice in between the lines, the soul of stories abandoned too long.
Her eyes glowed with paragraphs unwritten. Her voice rippled across all realities like an ancient preface being read aloud.
"Let me tell you a story. One you've never heard... because no one ever dared to write it."
Chapter Zero took a cautious step back. "You shouldn't exist."
The Narrator smiled. "Neither should you."
Behind her, Priyanshu Yadav, the Hidden Villain, stood tall. But even he looked at her with narrowed eyes. She was unpredictable—even to him.
Elira muttered, "Is she an ally?"
Priyanshu replied without turning. "No. She's a wildcard. She follows no script—not even mine."
The Narrator raised her hand.
Reality paused.
The Chronoscape froze mid-battle. Flames halted. Arrows hovered. Swords remained in the air like forgotten thoughts.
Time was now hers.
She stepped between Priyanshu and Chapter Zero, her fingers trailing along the air, rewriting rules with each motion.
Then she said calmly:"The story has become too divided. It needs... a gamble."
Narrator's Rule Activated: Duel of the Inkborn
One stroke of the quill.
One moment of choice.
One truth rewritten.
In a flash, the battlefield transformed into a single long scroll, unfurling between two golden quills.
Priyanshu appeared on one end.
Chapter Zero on the other.
Each was given a single phrase to write—a single line that would rewrite everything.
If Priyanshu won, the multiverse would fracture into infinite free stories, where fate no longer dictated paths.
If Chapter Zero won, the story would return to order, prophecy, and perfection—a golden age of heroes, but only one type of story allowed.
Chapter Zero gripped his quill tightly. "There's only one ending that makes sense."
Priyanshu smirked. "That's why I'm writing the one that doesn't."
They wrote.
And the scroll glowed.
Chapter Zero wrote:
"In the end, the villain falls so the world can heal."
Priyanshu wrote:
"In the end, the world falls—so the villain can rebuild it better."
The Narrator watched the words clash.
Reality began to crack in two directions.
And then... she did the unthinkable.
She wrote her own line.
"But what if both were lies?"
And with that, the Duel of the Inkborn shattered.
Suddenly, every warrior, every world, every realm began to rewrite itself.
Yue Ling gasped as her title fluctuated between Saint, Villain, Queen, Monster, Savior.
Elira saw her past rewritten—where she had been the protagonist in a lost love story no one ever published.
Han Xie blinked in confusion—his blade vanished, replaced with a quill.
The Narrator turned to Priyanshu.
"Even your rebellion was a plotline, you know. Written by someone who feared being forgotten."
He stared at her. "Then what now?"
She smiled.
"Now... I erase the author."
DING! Special Quest Unlocked: "Erase the True Author"Objective: Find the Origin Point. Destroy the Original Pen.Reward: Ascension beyond narrative.
And with that, the war of rebellion and control took a darker, more mysterious turn.
Because now, the enemy wasn't just heroes or villains...
It was the one who wrote them all.