Location: Yxtrielle – Collapsed Fracture Valley
Time: [Override State – Threadbreaker Activation Phase]
The moment Threadbreaker touched the air,
Reality blinked.
Not light. Not space.
Just… meaning.
Va'theran stepped back, his stolen glyphs sputtering with static sparks.
VA'THERAN (glitching, wary):
"That blade… wasn't made."
"It shouldn't exist. It was never forged in fire or soul-heat."
REN (eyes glowing):
"Exactly."
"It remembers how to cut, even if it was never born to do it."
WEAPON STATUS: THREADBREAKER
Form 1 – Base Form (Anti-Glyph Edge):
Disables active glyphs on contact Cannot be blocked by echo-forged shields Unfolds resonance threads on impact (tears fake summons apart)
Form 2 – Blade of Code Severance:
Activated mid-swing Turns into a ribbon-curve blade made of flickering glyph fragments Ignores armor, cuts through glyph contracts, corrupts stolen echo channels
Form 3 – Collapse Crescent (Gravity Bonded):
Blades collapses inward to become a dual-bladed arc Pulls Va'theran's summoned creatures into it Can cause glyph recursion implosions (target's glyphs fold in on themselves)
Ren moved like gravity asked him where to go.
Time lagged behind him.
Space folded out of respect.
He slashed — once — in a ripple of glyphlight.
Mire Whisperer was deleted mid-scream.
No collapse.
Just removed, like a lie caught in a truthwave.
Va'theran staggered, one knee hitting the cracked obsidian ground.
His summons fractured.
Their tethers sparked, their glyphs trembled.
And then the Override Core… choked.
CORE SYSTEM WARNING:
Power Strain Detected
Override Link: Overextension
Threadbreaker has exceeded memory allocation
SYSTEM HALT: THREADBREAKER DISCONNECTED
The blade dimmed — its light turned inward.
And then—
It didn't vanish.
It sank into Ren's chest — not Override-bound now,
but Aetherium Core fused.
NEW CORE FUSION: THREADBREAKER + AETHERIUM CORE
Result: Collapse Phase Integration
Gravity Fragment → Primary Sync
Time & Space: Deferred
Weapon no longer external.
Now integrated into Ren's very soul structure.
GRAVITY (low, absolute):
"He stole glyphs. So we rewrite the rules."
A wave pulsed from Ren's chest.
Not an attack.
Not a defense.
A declaration.
SYSTEM COMMAND:
GLYPH CHANNEL NULLIFICATION FIELD: 30s
All summon glyphs (enemy and allied) = offline
All glyph-based power structures = locked
Va'theran's core = cut off.
The effect was cataclysmic.
Va'theran's corrupted summons collapsed, like marionettes cut loose mid-command.
His armor shattered in veins of fractal glyph static.
He screamed — not in pain, but in frustrated disbelief.
VA'THERAN (furious):
"You'd nullify your own system?!
Your own power—?!"
Ren fell to one knee.
Sweat. Blood. Static.
His aura ripped itself apart and barely stitched back.
REN (breathing heavy):
"I'm not here to win…"
"I'm here to make sure you don't."
STATUS:
Va'theran – 90% weakened
Glyphs disconnected Echo corruption disrupted Summon channel sealed
Ren – Severely drained
Override Core in cooldown Aetherium Core unstable Glyph channels frozen for 60s
FROST (desperate):
"Ren—GET UP! The lockdown's mutual, you suicidal bastard—"
BLAZE (screaming):
"You didn't have to shut down EVERYTHING—we still need YOU, dumbass!"
And yet—
The two combatants remained on their feet.
One bleeding. One glitching.
But neither down.
Because the Rift hadn't finished judging them yet.
Va'theran coughed, black echo leaking from his mouth.
His eyes glowed like a dying god's final tantrum.
VA'THERAN (low, shaking):
"You think you broke me?
This isn't my final form."
"I'm not rewriting the drift, Riftboy—"
"I'm replacing it."
He reached behind him.
And pulled out the Riftblade.
The original.
The prototype.
Kael's first failure. The one that cut Kael himself during its first test.
It pulsed with static.
It screamed with timelines it had already erased.