The Breaking of the Nothing

Story so far

With Emberus burning The Ninth Floor around him, Justice Light snapped a piece of twine with his talon. The legendary trap toppled, dropping the Bijou Trap and The Demon Trap into the permanent portal into The Nothing made from the broken The Winding Box. Both traps deactivated: thousands of Bijou and thousands of evicted demons were freed at once. Four separate planes, all jumbled and confused, folded and moved together as the unbreakable bijou lines tightened into a flower pattern, and the darkness at the center broke apart.

The system messages came in sequence — the Nothing has been broken; it is draining into The Halls of the Ascendency; into Sheol; into Scolopendra's Lair. Then: Scolopendra stirs. Planetwide warnings followed, mocking the Scolopendra Club's guests and exposing the truth of Agony Mirrors, before the final message: Scolopendra awakened. Justice Light never saw any of it; he was already gone, cawing into the fire.

Role

The chapter's turning point and the single act meant to change the course of the entire war.

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