The white flames were a silent, terrible scream.
They did not roar or crackle; they burned with a profound, absolute quiet that was more unnerving than any sound!
Aeternitas Glacies, once a magnificent citadel of crystalline beauty, a monument to the serene, ordered power of the Living Elementals, was now a funeral pyre the size of a portion of the Folds.
The flames consumed everything...the shattered ice, the powdered diamond, the very memory of the lives that had been extinguished...and left nothing but a clean, sterile, and unending whiteness.
Prompts buzzed in his mind.
|Master, the post-event analysis of the Quantum Relocation Protocol is complete.|
|The Justiciar’s descent was faster and slow. The window for intervention was 1.7 nanoseconds.|
|Results of the emergency evacuation:|
| - Transcendent Wheels of Existence successfully relocated to a secure location in this Fold: 37 out of 37.| 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
| - Living Elementals (All Tiers) forcefully transported to the periphery of the blast zone: 30%.|
| - The 5 Dukes of Aeternitas Glacies were warned 0.8 nanoseconds prior to impact. Their decision was to stand and fight.|
|Analysis: A tragic, yet statistically significant, success. We have preserved a seed of their civilization that would have otherwise been completely erased.|
"..."
The silence was heavy
Noah and Khor floated in the void, silent witnesses to the aftermath. The sheer, brutal efficiency of the slaughter, the absolute, unyielding nature of the Justiciar’s power, had left a heavy, chilling silence between them.
"My current power cannot take that thing down," Khor finally said, her voice a low, flat statement of fact. It was a rare, almost shocking admission of weakness from a being who had once devoured impossibilities for breakfast.
Noah nodded, his gaze fixed on the burning city. "Have you seen anything like it before?"
Khor was silent for a long moment, her abyssal eyes lost in the depths of her fragmented memories. "Maybe," she whispered, the word a fragile, uncertain thing.
"In the Earliest Folds... I remember the memories of some of the Inevitabilities. They showed... a certain Tribe of Early Creatures. They were builders, artisans of destruction. They made things like that. But the memories are scattered, broken."
Her form trembled, not with fear, but with a rage that was so cold it threatened to freeze the very space around them.
"I am going to kill every last one of them, Outsider," she hissed, her voice a venomous promise. "All those who aided in doing this to the Inevitabilities. THE Living Paradox... all of them."
The silence that followed her vow was heavy, absolute, and filled with the promise of a future reckoning. And then, a new, chilling voice cut through the quiet.
|Master.|
RUIN/EDEN’s calm, analytical tone was a stark, jarring contrast to the raw emotion of the moment.
Noah looked up, and his expression, already grim, became even graver. Above the silent, burning city, the white flames began to flicker, to coalesce.
Horrifically, illusory scenes, replays of the carnage that had just unfolded, began to play out like a ghostly, silent film.
They saw it all again. The magnificent, desperate charge of the Royals and the Honored. The Justiciar’s casual, brutal negation of their power.
The quiet, sickening crunch of the diamond golem. The dimming of the lightning Elemental’s light. The silent, blossoming flower of white flame that had erased a thousand beings from existence.
It was a montage of absolute, pitiless slaughter, playing on a loop for all of existence to see.
|This only further affirms the conclusion, Master.|
|This action was meant to evoke strong emotions. The harvest of Emotive authority mixed with Everythings was the primary objective.|
|This public display... it is meant to evoke fear for all those who come after.|
Those who come after.
The words were a chilling premonition. And not long after RUIN/EDEN spoke them, they began to arrive!
Portals of ice and fire, of stone and storm, ripped open across the void.

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