"When time fractures, kings are born from paradox."
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> [System Alert: Timeline Fragmentation Detected]
▸ Origin: Temporal Rift Δ-001: "Glitched Sovereign Path"
▸ Threat Level: Paracausal Ω-Class
▸ Warning: You are no longer the only you.
▸ Suggested Action: Engage with caution.
The Temporal Rift hovered just outside Dominion airspace, pulsing like a ruptured star vein. Time bled from it in distorted waves—causing memory echoes to flicker around Leonis and his command staff. For the first time, his Dominion Core System stuttered.
> "System… stabilize." Leonis' voice was low, commanding.
[Stabilization in progress… Conflict Source: Mirror Sovereign Signature.]
A mirror of his own system authority. Identical, but… tainted.
Atop the Eternal Core Throne, Leonis's mind expanded as he called forth the Chrono-Causal Map, a new interface gifted after winning the Wargame in Chapter 18. Seven branches extended from his past decisions—alternate choices he never made. But only one branch bled red with anomaly corruption.
It led to a version of him that never awakened the Dominion System normally.
It led to The Glitched Sovereign.
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🔹 Glitched Timeline: Year 0
> "Welcome, Leonis. Error: System Integrity Not Found.
Replacing with [God-Fragment.exe]. Good luck."
In the corrupted timeline, Leonis awakened not with order, but chaos. His System had fused with a forbidden [Glitched Source Code], a remnant of a fallen Divine Architect. With no limits and unstable rules, that Leonis rose like wildfire through a realm where timelines decayed every hour.
He didn't build a Dominion.
He devoured them.
In that timeline, he was Glitch-Wrought, a Sovereign capable of erasing System permissions entirely. Where others used Skills, he overrode Code. Where Lords deployed armies, he duplicated Epochs, folding time into crushing loops.
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🔸 The Rift War Begins
Back in the main timeline, Leonis stood with his elite cadre—Aria, Xal'Tor, Zeriel, Ishka—watching as a glitched storm breached the veil.
Through the Rift stepped a figure identical to Leonis—black-gold robes corrupted with pixel bleed, a crown of binary fire above his brow.
> "So this is the clean version of me," said the Glitched Sovereign, voice glitching between frequencies.
"Let's compare realms, shall we?"
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⚔️ Duel of Dominions
> [System Initiating: Sovereign Mirror Duel Protocol]
Realm: Temporal Mirror Expanse
Win Condition: Disable Opponent's Core System Anchor
Bonus: Acquire Fragment of Alternate System
Leonis summoned his core forces:
Chrono-Judicators
Epoch Sovereign Golems
Star-Threaded Phoenix Knights
Divine Ascendants of the Eternal Vault
The Glitched Sovereign summoned… himself. Fifty copies.
Each one wielded a different broken ability:
One accelerated time infinitely on contact.
Another reversed death itself with each strike.
One erased the concept of cost.
One cloned enemy troops with +1 evolution tier.
Leonis' response?
He used System Law Override Protocol: a reward from Chapter 18's Starforge Accord.
> [You have activated: Sovereign Rewrite Layer - Dominion Law Injection]
— Time dilation immunity granted
— Authority tier increased
— Reality-layer filtering engaged
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🔸 Clash at Chrono Point Zero
The battle escalated beyond linear comprehension.
Reality twisted into helix patterns. Worlds collided mid-phase. System notifications flooded both minds:
> [Epoch Unit "Ishka Prime" has fused with Reality-Core: Realmforge Construct Created]
[You have unlocked Causal Vector Blade: Can slice between alternate outcomes]
Leonis, wielding the Causal Vector Blade, struck down five glitched copies in one swing—collapsing branches of potential futures. But it wasn't enough.
Then Empress Aria activated the Time Loop Reversal Loop—burning a relic gained from the Verdant Bloom Queen. It bought Leonis three seconds—an eternity in Sovereign-level combat.
He used those seconds to unleash the one Skill he'd never used before:
> [Ultimate System Skill: DOMINION GLITCH INVERSION]
▸ Requires Sovereign Dual-State.
▸ Converts Glitched Authority into Stabilized Dominion Law.
▸ One use only. Afterward, timeline forks collapse permanently.
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🔹 Collapse of the Glitched Path
With a final strike, the Glitched Sovereign fell—his body pixelating into recursive runes.
> "We could've ruled everything… together…" he rasped.
Leonis knelt, placing a hand on his other self's fading chest.
> "I already do."
The Rift closed. The paradox settled.
System notifications rang like a coronation bell:
> [Glitched Timeline Absorbed]
[Authority Upgraded: Dual-Path Sovereign]
[Unlocked: Paracausal Ascension Tree]
[New Skill: Rewrite Future Construct]
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🔸 Aftermath: The Infinite Archives Open
Back in the Eternal Core Capital, a new realm-space opened beneath the throne.
A sealed library of all alternate choices he had ever—or never—made.
The Infinite Archives.
Inside?
Lost skills.
Forbidden troop variants.
Alternate relationships (even romantic threads never pursued).
And a name: The One Who Knows All Outcomes.