[World Status Update – ORRAK'ZHAL: MEMORY LAYER]Survival Year Progress: [4 / 10]Sanctum Status: Stable – Adaptive Expansion UnderwayThreat Level: Escalating – Entities Exhibiting Sentient Memory Rewriting DetectedEstimated Memory-Titans Remaining: 7
Iden – Level 80Summon Capacity: 1,409,286,144
(Next Doubling at Level 82: 2,818,572,288)
The third year began not with thunder—but with silence.Thoughts began to echo.Whispers arrived in minds that hadn't spoken aloud.
A new enemy emerged.
Not from ground or sky—but from consciousness.
They were called the Echovoid, memory parasites that fed on self-perception.If a soldier remembered their fear? The Echovoid could manifest it.If they clung to past sins? It became a weapon in enemy hands.
The world itself had begun turning self-awareness into fuel.
Within 19 days, over 4,000 of Sanctum's frontliners were lost.Their memories devoured.Some awoke in enemy armor.Some awoke as weapons themselves.
Iden acted swiftly—issuing Soul-Mind Isolation Protocols.
All Sanctum units now wore Echo-Rejector Helms, crafted from Voidglass and Soulthread.
Memories were now compartmentalized using Mana-Stabilized Recollection Seeds.
Rael and Arlen co-developed Neural Bastions: psionic fortresses buried into Sanctum's core sectors, shielding entire cities from mind corruption.
Sanctum began launching targeted mind-pulse attacks, using emotion-coded warheads designed to collapse enemy thought structures.
The war had become cognitive.
Kael, now Level 66, led the restructured Tyrant Front—an army of evolved skeletal giants wrapped in memory-armor and powered by battlefield grief.
Their new flagship unit:
"Tearborn Juggernauts"Units born from the recorded pain of Sanctum's fallen, capable of redirecting emotional memory into kinetic destruction.
Kael became more than a commander.He was now known as: The Mourning Crown.
And wherever he walked, the memory-sands parted in reverence.
The Carrion of the Sixth Age had not stopped.Four years of inching forward.It now stood 50 km from Fort Veilreach.
Its body had doubled in size—absorbing ruins from other fallen factions.Behind it, a procession of Weeping Cities marched—ruins torn from the past of Earth's fallen metropolises.
It was time.
Fallout-VIII and Crownfall-Delta were deployed in synchronized orbit.Arlen had refined them using fracture energy—meaning both were no longer bound by gravity or time-local targeting.
The attack lasted 47 seconds.The blast tore a hole in the world.
[World Notification]Second Memory-Titan "Carrion of the Sixth Age" Destroyed.Memory Wound Created. Dimensional Stability Down 3.4%.
(Warning: Chain Echo Effects Detected. Prepare for Conceptual Collapse in affected zones.)
Sanctum lost two forward bases.13,400 adaptive skeletons shattered beyond code recovery.Several minor allied factions within 300km were completely erased.
But the Titan was gone.Its fall rippled across Orrak'Zhal.
From the wound came… others.
Ghosts from Earth's failed histories:
Warfronts where no peace was ever signed
Cities that never surrendered
Tyrants that rewrote themselves into gods
Sanctum had begun the second phase of its survival:
"The Age of Forgotten Lords."
With Year Five on the horizon—and a mysterious message confirming the Origin Fracture would open then—Iden issued Operation Exodus Shield.
All major cities were reinforced with Last-Veil Anchors.
A planetary mana shield was constructed, interwoven through the entire world memory thread.
All combat units entered "Persistent Awareness" mode—allowing partial rebirth via memory residue in case of fatal loss.
And then Iden said this:
"This is not a trial. This is the reckoning of everything Earth could have become. We will not be victims of our memory—we will become the ones who remember correctly."
Ally Level Update:
Rael – Level 69Her divine pulse can now restore fractured terrain and even purge corrupted storylines.
Kael – Level 66His command grants all skeletal elites 30% resistance to memory rewrite effects.
Nyra – Level 65She now manipulates time flow around her strikes, warping enemy reaction cycles.
Arlen – Level 65Can now craft tech that exists across multiple narrative threads simultaneously.
All of them are nearing the threshold of Myth-Class Upgrade Potential.But none would trigger it yet—not until Year Five, and the Origin Fracture.
On the final day of Year Four, Rael and Iden stood atop the Veilreach Parallax Spire.
Through the Fractured Horizon, a crack opened in the sky—not glowing, not fiery.
But quiet.
A silence that reached into the soul and whispered one word:
"Return."
Iden's voice was steady, but colder than before.
"That's it. That's the fracture. Earth's true wound."
Rael touched his hand. "We enter it next year?"
He nodded. "And everything changes after that."
At the bottom of the fracture, a human figure stirred—wearing a Sanctum crest from a version that never existed.
"Iden... I've been waiting."