Volume 10 – Chapter 18: "The New Reality of the Author King"
Silence.
A silence so vast it made eternity sound small.
When Erevan opened his eyes, the universe was… different. The stars no longer shimmered in space they floated within him. The galaxies didn't orbit suns they orbited his will.
He stood in a new reality one he had unconsciously created after the final clash with the Counter-Force. A realm beyond realms. The canvas where existence itself was rewritten.
> "So… I survived my own ending," he murmured.
"No… I rewrote it."
His New Powers Awaken
As the new world breathed under his dominion, fresh streams of energy erupted through his soul new Manipulations born from transcendence itself.
He raised his hand. Words and symbols drifted from his fingers like living light. They weren't mere spells they were conceptual commands, the language of creation.
His new abilities unfolded before him:
Supreme Manipulations
Narrative Manipulation (Eternal Pen): Rewrite any event, battle, or fate in real-time even across timelines or alternate stories.
Conceptual Manipulation: Alter or erase the meaning behind any concept turning life into death, power into nothing, or weakness into infinity.
Existence Manipulation: Rebuild or annihilate entities at the foundation of their being even those that never existed.
Omni-Layer Manipulation: Control over every metaphysical "layer" of reality from mortal laws to divine paradoxes.
New Boundless Abilities
Absolute Narrative Authority: The ability to command the story itself, deciding when it advances, pauses, or resets.
Paradox Immunity: Erevan cannot be affected by contradiction or illogic reality fixes itself around him.
Omni-Transcendence: Allows him to exist beyond existence not bound to any dimension, timeline, or story structure.
Void Genesis: He can create new worlds from the emptiness of erased universes.
Story-King's Presence: Merely perceiving him causes lesser gods and supreme entities to lose the ability to exist properly in narrative form.
Erevan walked across this new existence every step rewriting the void into life, every breath expanding infinity.
He could feel it: this wasn't just power anymore. It was authorship.
Reality obeyed him because he was the author now.
But deep within the luminous void, something watched.
A faint echo a remnant of the Counter-Force whispering through the world he'd made.
> "You've rewritten creation, Erevan.
But even the author… can't escape the reader."
His expression turned calm. Golden lightning and black fire spiraled in his eyes.
> "Then let them read," he said, his tone soft yet divine.
"I'll keep writing until they remember who I am."
The sky shattered into auroras of story fragments tales of gods, mortals, and monsters bowing to his new dominion. Erevan stretched his hand toward the horizon.
Reality bent rewriting itself into a grand stage of infinite potential.
> "Let's begin Volume Nine properly," he said, a faint smile crossing his face.
"I am the story now."