Author's Note: Unedited Chapter
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Not when even fifty percent of his restored strength wouldn't be enough to face the Overseer and Nocturnis combined.
Not when the universe itself felt like it was holding its breath.
The Overseer raised his hand slowly.
Gustav's aura flickered.
Nocturnis watched with unrestrained glee.
"Remember what you did?" Nocturnis whispered.
"How you obliterated his daughter's existence because she threatened the cosmic balance…?"
He laughed again.
"Well… he remembers now."
Gustav's eyes narrowed.
The Overseer's aura began to gather.
And then—
Galaxies flickered as if struggling to stay alight. Stars dimmed into embers, planets cracked along tectonic seams, and entire sectors of reality felt a violent pull like something ancient had just inhaled after a hundred thousand years of suffocating silence.
And then he emerged.
