[Scene: Aftermath of the Battle Ashborn — Village]
Ash fell like snow.
The skies, once scorched gold, now dimmed to twilight blue.
Kael sat beside the scorched remnants of a shrine, his sword lodged in the ground, flickering faintly.
Villagers whispered thanks as Selena tended to the injured. Children clutched makeshift dolls carved from phoenix-shaped stones—tokens of hope in the wake of despair.
But Kael wasn't at peace.
Because something inside him had changed.
"The First Crownless…"
That voice in the last battle hadn't been a hallucination.
It was a memory—but not his own.
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[Memory Echo – 10,000 Years Ago]
In his dreams, Kael saw flashes.
A man stood atop a throne of ashes, flames coiling around his shoulders like a cloak.
He didn't kneel before gods. He burned them.
"We don't beg. We become."
The man wore no crown—because he was the crown. The power. The rebellion.
"I created the Crownless. We were the mistake the gods couldn't erase."
Kael gasped awake, sweat dripping down his brow.
Selena looked up from the campfire.
"Another one?"
He nodded.
"I saw him again. The First Crownless. He looked like me… but older. Stronger. Like he was built from wrath itself."
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[The Forbidden Chapter]
Later that night, Lina Voidheart presented a sealed scroll.
"I found this in the library of shattered stars. It's forbidden text… torn from the gods' own archives."
She handed it to Kael.
"It mentions the First Crownless… and his connection to a weapon they feared—something called the Godbreaker Codex."
"A relic so powerful," she whispered, "that Solarian ordered every record of it burned."
Kael unrolled the scroll, revealing a faded sketch—a man engulfed in dark flame, a crown of ash hovering over his head. He held a blade inscribed with the phrase:
"From dust we rise, from gods we fall."
Underneath, a name:
Aetharion – The Ash King
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[Kael's Awakening]
[System Alert – Bloodline Resonance Triggered]
· Ancestral Match: 96.3%
· Confirmed: You are the Direct Descendant of Aetharion
· Trait Unlocked: Ash King's Legacy
[Trait: Ash King's Legacy]
Boosts resistance to divine magic
Enables memory absorption from relics
Unlocks locked Godbreaker Skills with enough Sovereign Flame
Kael's fingers trembled as the scroll caught fire from his aura alone.
"I wasn't just some forgotten trash born under a cursed moon…"
"I was born to finish what he started."
Selena stepped forward, stunned.
"Then your war… it's not just revenge."
"No," Kael said, rising to his feet.
"It's inheritance."
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[Celestial Realm – Reaction of the Gods]
In the divine hall, Solarian slammed his staff into the floor. The mirror of fate cracked.
"The Ash King's blood still flows...?"
"Impossible!"
A cloaked god stepped forward, whispering:
"Should the Godbreaker Codex reappear… even we may fall."
Solarian's eyes blazed.
"Then destroy them all. The Crownless, the Codex… and the boy."
"This time, leave nothing behind."
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[End Scene – A New Mission]
Kael stood before the remaining Crownless.
"There's a weapon out there buried in myth—something the gods fear."
He lifted his flaming sword.
"We find it. We forge it. We break their chains—forever."
"We're not just Crownless anymore."
"We are the heirs of the Ash King."