The cracks spreading across the Forgotten Monarch King's Primordial Origin form deepened.
His infinite crowns flickered.
His timelines collapsed inward.
His existence trembled under the weight of Tenno's Originless Ascension.
But instead of falling…
He laughed.
A sound like the first lie ever told.
A sound that made the Monarch Council recoil in terror.
The King straightened, his cracked form stabilizing through sheer will.
"You think you have seen my true form?"
Tenno's wings flared.
"I've seen enough."
The King shook his head.
"No.
You have seen the form I allowed the System to remember."
He raised his hand.
The battlefield darkened.
The System screamed.
The Monarch Council staggered.
The King whispered:
"Let me show you the form the System erased."
---
THE SYSTEM PANICS
Glyphs exploded across the sky.
The System's voice trembled with something it had never expressed before:
Fear.
[SYSTEM — EXISTENTIAL COLLAPSE WARNING]
Final Forbidden Form Detected: ???
Classification: Pre-Singularity Entity
Status: Erased from System Memory
Countermeasures: None
Survival Probability: Undefined
The Fate Monarch screamed:
"NO! That form was erased for a reason!"
The Chrono Monarch clutched his head.
"I can't see it… I can't see ANYTHING… time refuses to record it!"
The Abyss Monarch roared:
"Tenno! Brace yourself!"
The King smiled.
"You cannot brace for what predates bracing."
---
THE KING BEGINS HIS TRANSFORMATION
His Primordial Origin form cracked open like a shell.
Inside was not light.
Not darkness.
Not energy.
Not void.
Something deeper.
Something older.
Something the cosmos had tried to forget.
The King's voice echoed through every layer of existence.
"I am not the First Origin."
His form dissolved into swirling anti-light.
"I am not the First Monarch."
His infinite crowns shattered into paradox.
"I am not the First Law."
His timelines collapsed into nothing.
"I am the Era Before All Eras."
The Monarch Council fell to their knees.
The Verdant Monarch whispered:
"He's… he's becoming the age before existence…"
The Eclipse Monarch trembled.
"That's not a form… that's a state of reality…"
The Ruin Monarch backed away.
"No… no, this is impossible… he's becoming the Proto-Existence…"
Tenno's eyes narrowed.
"Show me."
---
THE KING'S FINAL FORBIDDEN FORM — PROTO-EXISTENCE
The transformation completed.
And the battlefield died.
Not physically.
Conceptually.
The King's final form emerged:
THE PROTO-EXISTENCE KING
• A body made of unwritten laws, shifting like a broken reflection
• A crown of anti-concepts, flickering between infinite impossible shapes
• Wings of pre-light, casting shadows that existed before darkness
• A mantle of proto-time, where moments flickered in and out of possibility
• Eyes that reflected the era before existence had rules
• A gravitational aura that pulled in potential, not matter
• Footsteps that erased the idea of "before" and "after"
The System flickered violently.
[SYSTEM — CRITICAL FAILURE]
Entity Classification: Unclassifiable
Origin: Pre-Singularity
Nature: Proto-Existence
Threat Level: Infinite
The King's voice echoed like the first heartbeat of a universe that never formed.
"Chaos Tenno…
You are the Originless Core."
His wings of pre-light expanded.
"But I am the Proto-Existence that birthed the singularity you came from."
Tenno's aura surged.
"Then you're the one I need to end."
The King's eyes burned with impossible light.
"You cannot end what existed before endings."
---
THE FIRST STRIKE — ERA DEVOURER
The King raised his hand.
Reality bent.
Time folded.
Space inverted.
Concepts screamed.
He whispered:
"Era Devourer."
A wave of proto-existence surged toward Tenno, devouring:
• laws
• origins
• timelines
• possibilities
• definitions
• meaning
The Monarch Council watched in horror.
The Fate Monarch cried:
"He's erasing the idea of Tenno!"
The Chrono Monarch shouted:
"He's devouring Tenno's potential futures!"
The Abyss Monarch roared:
"TENNO!"
The wave hit.
And the universe blinked.
---
TENNO'S RESPONSE — ORIGINLESS ASCENSION UNLEASHED
The wave of proto-existence engulfed Tenno.
For a moment, the battlefield went silent.
The King smiled.
"It is done."
But then—
The wave cracked.
Shattered.
Collapsed.
Tenno stepped out of it.
His Originless Ascension form burning brighter than ever.
His voice echoed like a paradox breaking free.
"You cannot devour what has no era."
His wings expanded.
"Originless Override."
The remnants of the King's attack dissolved into nothing.
The King staggered.
"No…
No, this cannot be happening…
You should not be able to resist Proto-Existence!"
Tenno stepped forward.
"I don't resist."
His mantle roared with collapsing singularities.
"I transcend."
---
THE SECOND STRIKE — PROTO-REALITY IMPOSITION
The King roared.
His wings of pre-light expanded into infinity.
He slammed his hand into the ground.
"Proto-Reality Imposition!"
A new reality formed around Tenno.
A reality where:
• beginnings were mandatory
• endings were predetermined
• existence required permission
• laws were absolute
• origin was unavoidable
The King whispered:
"In this reality…
you must have a beginning."
Tenno's form flickered.
His wings dimmed.
His mantle unraveled.
His Crown cracked.
The Monarch Council screamed.
The System wailed.
The King smiled.
"Be born."
---
TENNO'S COUNTER — THE FIRST ORIGINLESS EDICT
Tenno lifted his head.
His eyes burned with impossible light.
His wings reignited.
His mantle reformed.
His Crown repaired itself.
He whispered:
"No."
The King froze.
Tenno raised his hand.
And spoke the first true law of the Originless Ascension.
"I reject your reality."
Proto-Reality shattered.
The King staggered backward, cracks spreading across his final form.
Tenno stepped forward.
"You are Proto-Existence."
His aura surged.
"I am what comes after."
TO BE CONTINUED.