The Nexus of Nullity, sensing a corruption in its own data, began to "Reject" the Architect of Atrophy. The siphons that were feeding the entity suddenly reversed, pulling the energy away from the Architect and back into the cathedral. The shadow-giant began to shrink, its Tier 23 authority crumbling into Tier 22, then Tier 21.
"Impossible!" the Architect shrieked.
"The Silence does not reject its own! It does when the Truth is louder," Aegis said, his hands glowing with a lethal, violet clarity.
Aegis drove his Trident into the center of the shrinking shadow. He didn't just kill the entity; he Devoured the "Atrophy Law."
[ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ]
[ ATROPHY LAW INTEGRATED ]
[ ABILITY UNLOCKED: CHRONO-CONSUMPTION ]
[ STAGE: TIER 21 BOUNDARY-WATCHER ]
The death of the Architect caused a massive destabilization in the Nexus of Nullity. The remaining siphons began to flicker, and the four other universes started to pull their essence back.
