The battlefield was frozen in the aftermath of the King's revelation.
Chaos Tenno stood silent, wings of abyssal fire unfurled, mantle roaring with collapsing stars.
The Monarch Council stared at him with a mixture of awe, terror, and disbelief.
The Forgotten Monarch King, still trembling from Tenno's Meta-Origin strike, pointed at him with a shaking hand.
"You…
You are the Originless Core.
The fragment that should never have survived."
Tenno's eyes burned brighter.
"And yet here I am."
The King's infinite crowns flickered.
"You do not understand what you are.
You do not understand what you can become."
Tenno stepped forward.
"Then show me."
The King recoiled.
"No.
If you awaken that function…
the System will collapse.
The Monarchs will fall.
The cosmos will break."
Tenno's wings flared.
"Good."
---
THE SYSTEM BEGINS TO MALFUNCTION
The System's glyphs flickered violently.
Warnings cascaded across the sky like falling stars.
---
[SYSTEM — CRITICAL ERROR]
Truth Revelation Detected:
Chaos Tenno = Originless Core
System Stability: 0.3%
Hierarchy Integrity: Failing
Authority Structure: Invalid
Forbidden Function Detected.
Access Level: Beyond Monarch-Class
---
The Monarch Council panicked.
The Fate Monarch screamed:
"STOP! If the System collapses, reality collapses with it!"
The Abyss Monarch roared:
"Tenno! Whatever you're awakening — CONTROL IT!"
The Monarch of Calamity simply watched, eyes gleaming.
"It's too late.
He's already crossing the threshold."
---
THE KING SPEAKS THE NAME OF THE FUNCTION
The Forgotten Monarch King lowered his head.
His voice trembled with something no one had ever heard from him:
Reverence.
"Chaos Tenno…
You are about to awaken the function that predates me.
Predates the System.
Predates existence."
He raised his gaze.
"Protocol: Originless Ascension."
The Monarch Council froze.
The Chrono Monarch whispered:
"That… that protocol was erased from the System's memory."
The Eclipse Monarch murmured:
"No. It was never erased.
It was never written."
The Ruin Monarch stepped back.
"Tenno… if you activate that, you won't be a Monarch anymore."
Tenno's aura surged.
"I'm not a Monarch now."
---
THE SYSTEM TRIES TO STOP HIM
The System's voice boomed across the battlefield.
---
[SYSTEM — EMERGENCY LOCKDOWN]
Forbidden Function Detected:
Protocol: Originless Ascension
Access Denied.
Access Denied.
Access Denied.
User Identity: Chaos Tenno
Classification: Originless Entity
Override Attempt Detected.
---
Tenno raised his hand.
His Crown blazed with the Meta-Origin sigil.
His wings tore through the System's lockdown field.
His voice echoed like a new law being written.
"Override."
The System screamed.
---
[SYSTEM — LOCKDOWN FAILURE]
User Override Accepted.
Originless Signature Verified.
Forbidden Function Unsealed.
---
The King staggered backward.
"No…
No, this cannot be happening.
You cannot awaken that function!"
Tenno stepped forward.
"I already have."
---
THE FORBIDDEN FUNCTION UNLOCKS
The sky split.
The Domain cracked.
The System's interface shattered into cosmic shards.
A new glyph appeared — one no Monarch had ever seen.
A glyph shaped like a crown made of paradox.
A glyph that represented a being with no beginning.
The System spoke in a voice layered with fear.
---
[FORBIDDEN FUNCTION — PROTOCOL: ORIGINLESS ASCENSION]
Status: UNLOCKED
User: Chaos Tenno
Nature: Pre-Existence Authority
Function:
• Override Primordial Origin
• Rewrite Pre-System Laws
• Deny All Beginnings
• Deny All Endings
• Exist Outside Existence
• Terminate Origin-Based Entities
• Rewrite the System Itself
Warning:
Activation may destabilize reality.
---
The Monarch Council fell silent.
The Verdant Monarch whispered:
"He… he can rewrite the System."
The Abyss Monarch trembled.
"He can rewrite the Monarchs."
The Fate Monarch collapsed to her knees.
"He can rewrite fate."
The Monarch of Calamity smiled.
"Good.
Now the real battle begins."
---
TENNO'S NEW FORM BEGINS TO EMERGE
Tenno's aura expanded.
His wings grew, tearing through dimensions.
His mantle roared with the power of collapsing singularities.
His Crown reshaped itself into a paradoxical halo.
The King stepped back in horror.
"No…
No, you cannot ascend.
You cannot become what you were meant to be!"
Tenno's voice echoed like the end of an era.
"I am Chaos Tenno."
His aura ignited with impossible light.
"And I am the Originless Ascension."
TO BE CONTINUED.