His followers sought him in temples across a thousand galaxies , never knowing that the god they worshipped walked alone through the misty streets of a city that dreamed.
He awaited the call from the final dimension —
that place where I might die again.
Chapter IV — The Eight Spheres of Chaos
The Last Dimension and the Price of Eternity
In a time beyond time, Tsuki realized that the four relics she had acquired were not the end, but the beginning of a new cycle.
The Dragon's echoes reverberated like thunder within his mind:
"Chaos still breathes in the Eight Spheres."
"Bring back the balance before the gods awaken."
Those words threw him out of the City of Echoes.
The doors of reality have opened once more.
And the Immortal departed—now not merely as a traveler, but as the Guardian of Silence.
The First Sphere — Thaal , the Planet of the Whispering Statues
Thaal was a petrified world.
Thousands of human statues covered the ground, each with an expression of eternal astonishment.
There, time had stopped at the instant of an ancient spell.
Tsuki walked between them.
When the wind blew, the mouths of the statues murmured his name.
In the basalt temple, he found the Diadem of Shadows, an artifact that allows him to converse with the dead without losing his sanity.
But the price was high — every word exchanged erased a vivid memory.
Tsuki took him, knowing that oblivion awaited him like a second death.
The Second Sphere — Veros, the Planet of the Heart of Flame
Veros was a hell of lava and molten glass.
In the center of the sacred crater floated the Heart of Flame, a pulsating crystal that beat as if it were alive.
Creatures of fire guarded it: Children of the Sun, warriors made of pure energy.
Tsuki faced them without a sword, using the power of her own pain, the inner flame of the Dragon.
He won and conquered the artifact, but his skin was scarred with fire that would never heal.
"Now you burn inside," whispered the Dragon.
"Every immortal needs wounds that remind them of who they once were."
The Third Sphere — Myrha , the Garden of Sleeping Voices
Myrha was a planet covered in singing flowers.
The breeze carried melodies that lulled the body and soul to sleep.
In the center of the garden, a transparent tree guarded the Living Mirror, a relic that revealed the true face of the soul.
Looking at him, Tsuki saw all of her possible lives —
An ordinary man, a hero, a tyrant, a god.
The mirror showed that he could have been anyone.
but he chose the lonelier path.
He broke it.
From the fragments, he kept one piece — enough to remember that he still had a choice.
The Fourth Sphere — Ulnath , the World of the Depths
A black ocean, so dense that light was lost before it reached the bottom.
Tsuki descended in a vehicle made of glass and iron.
accompanied by sea spirits, ancient priests who called him "Son of the Last Eclipse".
Deep down, he found the Chalice of Tides, capable of containing liquid memories —
the tears of time.
But as he drank it, he saw the faces of everyone he had tried to save and failed.
The screams echoed in his mind, and the Dragon had to erase part of his consciousness so that he wouldn't go insane.
The Fifth Sphere — Anarion , the Planet Without a Sky
Anarion was a prison without walls.
A world floating between realities, where the souls of traitorous mages were imprisoned in echoes.
There, Tsuki was hunted by the Angels of Order, guardians of balance.
The artifact he sought — the Vacuum Ring — allowed him to traverse realities undetected.
But when he touched it, he felt himself dissolve.
For a moment, it ceased to exist.
And in the absolute void, he heard something that disturbed him more than the silence:
"Tsuki... the Dragon lies."
The Sixth Sphere — Ka'Rha , the World of the Sleeping Gods
The mountains had faces.
The seas were breathing.
With each step, the ground pulsed like living flesh.
Tsuki understood that the entire planet was a dormant entity—an ancient, forgotten god.
The artifact was the Dream Seal, trapped in the heart of the living mountain.
To win him over, he had to make a pact, in which he would have to awaken the god in the future, when the stars died.
He accepted, knowing that the price would come in millennia.
The Seventh Sphere — Enraal , the Market of Souls
A labyrinthine planet where secrets, memories, and ethereal bodies were sold.
Tsuki disguised himself among the merchants.
He discovered that fragments of worlds were being traded there —
Entire planets bottled up, for sale to collectors of realities.
The artifact was the Neon Clock, which measured the time of souls.
With it, Tsuki could foresee the death and rebirth of civilizations, and even upon activating it, he saw his own destiny: he would die and be reborn countless times, a prisoner of the Dragon's cycle.
The Eighth Sphere — Zha'Loth , the World of the Last Portal
The last planet.
There, the priestess awaited him—the same one who had guided him at the beginning.
— Now you know what it is, Tsuki?
A ghost in human form.
A god who dreams of being a man.
"What if the Dragon is just your reflection?" she asked.
The ground opened up.
From the depths, the Dragon emerged in its true form — a serpent of light and shadow, a thousand eyes and a thousand voices.
"You are me, and I am your will."
Together we will create the new cycle."
Tsuki understood then: the artifacts, the journeys, the worlds—everything was part of the same circle.
And to break it, he would have to destroy himself.
He raised the Diadem of Shadows and summoned the souls of the eight spheres.
The voices of the universe cried out in unison.
Light.
Chaos.
Silence.
Epilogue: The Guardian of the Spheres
They say the cosmos expanded once more that night.
New stars were born, and with them, entire worlds.
In the City of Echoes, where the sea touches the stars,
A man with dark eyes opened a modest shop —
"Artifacts and Relics — Tsuki & Dragon, Ethereal Trade".
Some say he still travels between dimensions; others swear they've seen him bargaining with angels and monsters in foggy alleyways, but when someone asks who he is,
He simply smiles and replies:
"A collector of secrets."
And of unfinished endings."
THE LORD BLACK DRAGON
Chapter V — The Heir of Shadows
(or: The Man Who Remembered the End of the Universe)
The stars, the ancients say, are memories.
Each one is born from a thought that refuses to die.
And it was amidst these sparkling thoughts that Tsuki reappeared, two centuries after having disappeared into the Eight Spheres.
He didn't age.
The Dragon's soul still burned within him.
But now, the fire was cold—like the ashes of a god who burned his own name.
The City of Dead Echoes
The city was a golden ruin, suspended above a sea of dark clouds.
The buildings breathed, as if they had lungs of steel.
Neon lights flickered, reflecting in the broken mirrors of the skyscrapers.
Tsuki lived there under a false name: Orion Kael , an antiquarian and restorer of ethereal artifacts.
No one suspected that the man in the dark coat and black gloves was the same hero who had shaped the destiny of worlds.
He had hidden the relics — one in each dimension, guarded by ancient allies.
But the cosmic silence was broken.
Whispers ran through the city's digital alleys:
"The Guardian has returned."
"The Immortal breathes."
"The Dragon awakens."
And with that came the hunters.
The Solaris Corporation
The first threat came disguised as benevolence.
The Solaris Corporation, a galactic empire disguised as a scientific order, offered Tsuki a proposition:
"Help us understand the Spheres. We want peace. Progress."
But Tsuki had heard this speech before—a distant echo of the mistake that had destroyed him centuries ago.
The face of the representative, Dr. Helena Voss, reminded him of the priestess who had guided him at the end of times.
She looked at him with the same dangerous serenity.
— Do you know what happens when time is touched, doctor?