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Chapter 2 - The Hero Who Became Nothing

A flash of light cut through the darkness.

Aegis Prime.

The man everyone called the strongest hero alive descended like a comet, his white armor glowing with holy radiance. His shield pulsed with an energy that defied physics, a weapon said to withstand black holes themselves.

"SELENE VEYR!" His voice echoed like a thunderclap. "Enough! I won't let you take another step!"

She looked at him the way a cat looks at an insect.

"Take?" Her smile widened. "I'm not taking anything. I'm just… removing the unnecessary."

Aegis charged. The street shattered under his feet as he closed the distance, shield raised for a devastating blow. For a brief second, his presence burned brighter than her quiet malice.

But Selene didn't move. She didn't even blink.

Reality bent.

The hero froze mid-swing. His shield fractured, glowing cracks crawling across its surface like veins of light. His armor peeled away into golden dust. His body flickered between here and nowhere.

He gasped, eyes wide with horror. "What… are you…?"

Selene stepped closer. Her whisper was colder than the void.

"Something your tiny mind can't imagine."

She touched his forehead with one pale finger.

Aegis Prime was gone. Not dead. Not broken. Just gone, erased so completely that the world itself seemed to forget he had ever existed.

The light from his shield faded. The air stilled. And Selene stood alone in the silence.

"Next."

The screen would cut to black. The ending theme would play

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