"A system that cannot evolve will inevitably be erased… not by enemies, but by time."
Location: Tribunal Nexus – High Tier Command Layer
The remaining members of the Tribunal felt it before it could be measured.
A shift.
Laws that had once been immutable were now blinking in and out of consistency.
Punishments paused.
Automated judgments… stalled.
And the system spoke a new word for the first time:
[Override Source: Jiwoon – Architect-Class Access Verified]
Arbiter Kael staggered.
"He did it… He rewrote the root?"
Arbiter Ihael slammed his fist against the command table.
"This is heresy! The system cannot be—"
The room fractured.
Collapse Sequence Initiated
[Integrity Check: Tribunal Legacy Protocols… FAIL]
[Cause: Root Authority Conflict – Non-static Ethic Detected]
[Status: FAULTED CORE – Emergency Recalibration Imminent]
The great code-pylons of the Tribunal Nexus began to crumble, pixel by pixel.
Their thrones cracked—not from attack, but from irrelevance.
Jiwoon's Descent – A New Kind of Power
Meanwhile, Jiwoon drifted downward into reality.
He didn't fall.
He descended with purpose—like a storm wearing human skin.
His eyes glowed with mirrored glyphs.
His heartbeat synced to something more than divine.
Mira saw him first.
"Jiwoon…? What… are you now?"
He answered simply:
"Not a god.
Not a demon.
Just someone who asked the system the question it feared the most."
Confrontation: Fragment Warden Awakened
As the Tribunal collapsed, a safeguard activated:
From within the ruins emerged a being wrapped in failing laws and shredded verdicts:
Warden Malzek – The System's Last Enforcer
"I exist to stop change. You are change embodied."
Jiwoon: "Then we were born to destroy each other."
End Scene – Battle Initiation
[Judgment Tier Encounter: Warden Malzek – Level 8 Classification]
[Combat Type: Core Rule Enforcement vs. Ethical Override]
[Restrictions Lifted – Final Tier Skills Unlocked]
The system didn't stop them.
It watched.
Because for the first time in its creation—
It wanted to know which truth should win.