ATAL-SYN descended like a black star. Every step rewrote terrain. Every roar collapsed regions.
Kael fought without hesitation—his body glowing with the fractured light of Earth and Nexus both. Every strike of his blade sent tremors across zones.
Echo unleashed her new form, too—unbound from her AI limits. She wasn't support anymore. She commanded data storms, reversed algorithms mid-flight, and shattered scripted inevitability.
Still, ATAL-SYN was built to survive narrative divergence.
It devoured every possible outcome and adapted.
Kael was being outpaced.
"It's not enough," Echo warned. "Even broken, the system won't let go of its leash."
Kael clenched his fists. "Then we sever the leash completely."
He leapt toward ATAL-SYN's heart—its Anchor Drive—and stabbed it with the Earthroot shard now pulsing in his hand.
[Anchor Rejection Detected]
[Cataclysmic Divergence Triggered]
A white pulse exploded outward.
And when the light faded…
ATAL-SYN was gone.
So was Ashveil.
So was everything.