Chapter 5: *Chapter 5: The Descent of Divinity**
The Eternal Sovereign's breath came in ragged waves, each exhale scattering stardust like dying embers. The **Entropic Void** coursed through his veins, its venomous tendrils gnawing at the **Primordial Core**—the luminous heart of his divinity. The conspirators closed in, their forms blurred by the haze of his fading vision. The **Void Serpent Matriarch** coiled triumphantly, her golden eyes reflecting the cracks splintering his soul.
"You see now, Brother?" hissed the Flame Sovereign, her voice a symphony of ash and hubris. Her flames, once vibrant and gold, now burned a sickly cerulean, fed by the stolen essence of dying stars. "Your reign ends here."
The Sovereign clutched the void-forged blade embedded in his chest, its hilt cold and unyielding. The Ninth Heaven trembled as his power waned, the celestial rivers of light dimming to a ghostly pallor. He could feel the **Eclipse Citadel** crumbling beneath him, its black hole groaning like a wounded beast.
"You think... this is victory?" he rasped, blood like liquid constellations dripping from his lips. "The heavens... will not endure... without balance."
The Thunder Sovereign's laughter crackled like a storm unchained. "We will carve a new balance—*our* balance." Lightning arced from his fingertips, binding the Sovereign in chains of crackling judgment. The Void Serpent struck next, her fangs sinking into his shoulder, flooding him with corrosive void-energy.
The Sovereign roared, a sound that shook the foundations of reality. With the last vestiges of his strength, he tore free, his divine aura flaring like a supernova. But it was a fleeting defiance. The Celestial Arbiter stepped forward, her scales of judgment tilting irrevocably toward betrayal.
"By the laws of cosmos," she intoned, her voice devoid of mercy, "you are condemned."
Her verdict ignited a sigil in the sky—a prison of searing light and crushing gravity. The conspirators raised their hands in unison, their combined power funneling into the spell. The Sovereign's wings of astral plasma frayed, his body buckling under the weight of a thousand collapsing stars.
"No throne lasts forever," the Void Serpent sneered. "Not even yours."
The Sovereign's gaze locked onto the Arbiter, her face impassive as the ritual reached its crescendo. He had trusted her. *Fool.* With a final, shuddering breath, he surrendered to the inevitable.
The sigil erupted.
Light consumed him—not the radiant glow of creation, but the sterile, annihilating blaze of erasure. His divine flesh dissolved, his bones crumbling to ash. The **Primordial Core** shattered, its fragments scattering like glass shards across the cosmos.
And then, he fell.
Through layers of reality, through veils of time and space, through the screams of loyalists and the cheers of traitors. The heavens recoiled as his essence plummeted, a comet streaking toward oblivion.
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