The Mechanical Sun flickered and went dark. The Grey Fog began to leak into the sky. The Tenth Apocalypse had begun.
The humans screamed. They prayed to their false gods.
Neo stood by the stump. He held the Seed of Hope (the last spark of the World Tree).
He had two choices.
Replant the Seed. The world will be destroyed, but a Volume 6 will begin. The cycle continues.
Destroy the Seed. The world dies, but the cycle ends. No more suffering. Eternal peace in the void.
Neo looked at a mother holding her child in the distance. They were terrified, but they were holding each other.
"Suffering is the price of existence," Neo said. "But so is Love."
He looked at the encroaching Fog.
"I will not just replant it," Neo decided. "I will