[World Status Update – ORRAK'ZHAL: MEMORY LAYER]
Survival Year Progress: [6 / 10]
Origin Fracture: Accessible – Anchor Coordinates Locked
Iden – Level 80
Summon Capacity: 1,409,286,144
(Next Doubling at Level 82: 2,818,572,288)
New Objective: "Walk the Forgotten Truth."
They stood before the Origin Fracture, where even reality hesitated.The rift pulsed with the rhythm of ancient Earth—memories that never truly died.
No faction dared approach it—not even the lingering titans.This was the first wound.The first cut the gods could not heal.Where Earth had screamed… and no one listened.
And yet, Iden walked forward.
At his side: Rael, Kael, Nyra, and Arlen—Sanctum's core.Behind him, over a billion skeletal summons stood silent, their codes flickering in respect.
The breach accepted them.Not with light, but with recognition.
Inside the fracture was not chaos.It was peaceful. A world untouched.
A stretch of land filled with sunlight, a warm breeze, and a home.His home.The villa in the mountains.The garden with all 18 elemental zones.The space built long ago… when the gods had given Iden time to breathe.
And there, sitting beneath the cherryblossom tree—were two figures.
They rose when Iden stepped closer.They wore no armor. No divine presence.Just… warmth. Kindness.
His mother, eyes teary, but smiling.His father, proud, but distant—hands trembling with restrained emotion.
"Iden," his father said, "we saw it all."
"Every struggle. Every time you chose to protect instead of destroy," his mother whispered.
"The girl who never gave up on you."
"The brother who stood between damnation and discipline."
They weren't resurrected.They weren't alive.
They were a manifested truth—a memory preserved by the fracture itself.
All the pain Iden carried… had rooted here.All the grief Rael buried... echoed here.
And now it wanted peace.
Iden stepped forward, swallowing emotions he hadn't allowed in years.He wanted to ask everything.
Why they left.If they ever truly saw him.
But they spoke first.
"We saw your bond with Rael… and her growing warmth with Kael."
"We saw your devotion to Nyra, and how deeply she changed you."
"And so we ask not as parents of the past—but as the memory of Earth itself."
They placed their hands on his shoulders.
"Will you walk beside your sister… as her brother, on the day of her wedding?"
"No regrets. No war between hearts. Only truth between family."
The wind whispered Rael's voice.She was watching.Tears slipping freely down her cheeks.
"Brother…" she whispered. "Please."
Iden clenched his fists—torn between everything he once feared losing.
Then, slowly…
He nodded.
"I promise. I'll walk with her—not as a protector, not as a savior... just as her brother."
With the promise made, the fracture shuddered.
The garden trembled.The figures of his parents smiled… and faded into light.
But their parting gift remained:
[Quest Update – Orrak'Zhal: True Layer Unlocked]
"The Memory of Earth accepts your truth. Origin Anchor activated.The final phase will begin in Year Nine."
Final Sub-Objective Added:"Ensure the sanctity of Rael's union and the survival of the Promisebearers."
The fracture granted access to a new layer of the world.No longer a corrupted memory—this was Earth's true alternate self.
Allied factions followed Sanctum's lead.For the first time in centuries, all of them shared one thing: a vision of the old world—one that had not yet failed.
Sanctum established the Promise Citadel on this layer—a semi-memorial site around the cherry tree, where every warrior could come and remember who they were before the Fall.
Even the titans could no longer enter.This land belonged to the promise.
One evening, beneath the cherry tree, Rael stood alone.She held her wedding ring—not worn yet, but shaped from Voidglass and Celestine.
Kael approached silently but stopped several steps behind.
Rael closed her eyes.
"He said yes," she whispered."He'll walk with me."
Kael smiled, but didn't intrude.Because for once…this was between siblings.
And the wind carried a final word from the fading fracture:
"One day… this promise will shape the next world."
From above, a figure in celestial armor watches Sanctum rise.
They whisper:"You've earned your peace, Iden. But will you fight for theirs?"