Chapter 101: The Origin’s Arrive

Chapter 101: The Origin’s ArriveThe sky tore open.

The rift—no longer sealed—pulsed like a heartbeat from another world. Its core spun in jagged spirals, churning with lightless energy, and from its center crawled the Fog.

It spilled down slow, like smoke made of hunger. Every tendril of it dragged behind something. Something alive.

The Fogwalkers were not creatures in the traditional sense.

They were wrong.

Their silhouettes twitched in and out of shape. Some with too many legs. Some with none. Some walked upright on spindly frames with heads that looked like twisted deer skulls, others slithered like serpents with gaping mouths stitched shut.

But their eyes—

All of them had eyes.

Dozens. Hundreds.

Bright and pale. Cold as winter stars.

They stepped onto the battlefield in silence.



No roar. No scream.

Only the distant hum of air warping under their presence.

The sky twisted.

Balgron stood at the edge of the rift, his body outlined by violet light and rolling fog, arms stretched wide like a priest welcoming the end.

"The girl actually did it," he bellowed. "She still pulled it off!"

His voice was thunder.

His smile split his face.

"Yes! Come and devour this world—let it rot so it can be reborn anew!"

He laughed.

Long. Loud.

Madness pouring from his throat like a hymn.

Selene, all six of her faces, laughed behind him in discord. One cackled. Another wept. The others just stared into the broken sky as if drunk on the coming storm.

The Fogwalkers crept forward now—crawling through the opened rift like gods birthed from nightmares. Their shapes bent and flickered, dragging the air with them, distorting it.

Balgron was still laughing—

Until BAM.

His body snapped sideways.

Mid-sentence.

Mid-roar.

A fist collided with his face so hard it sounded like a war drum. His massive jaw exploded in blood and shattered bone, and he was launched—flipping through the air like a comet, crashing into the base of a crumbled tower.

Selene spun, startled.

And there—floating just above the ruined battlefield—was Heron.

The Draugr.

The Guardian of Origin.

He hovered silently, arms at his sides, a crooked grin stretched across his grey-skinned face. No armor. No weapons.

He didn’t need them.

Selene’s eyes widened. All six. Her mouths opened, spells ready to fire—

But then she heard it.

A whisper in her ear.

Close.

Inside her head.

"If I were you... I wouldn’t do that."

She turned her gaze, slow, shaking. Her spells fizzled.

Heron reached forward.

With no hesitation, he gripped her head—fingers curling over each of her faces—and with a sharp twist—

CRACK. POP. SNAP.

Her heads burst like glass.

All six.

At once.

Her body collapsed in a mist of cursed blood and steam.

Heron exhaled, still grinning, turning toward the rift.

And then—

They arrived.

The battlefield froze.

Even the Fogwalkers paused—drawn by the presence cutting through space like a blade.

The Origin Seats.

Fifteen figures stepped into view—each one cloaked in black. Their coats lined in crimson silk, cuffs etched with gold. Black dragonhide layered over their shoulders. No race emblems. No house symbols.

Only the Origin Flame, stitched deep into their backs in red.

And below it, a number.

One through Fifteen.

The elite. The first. The only.

They stood in formation, silhouettes casting long shadows through the smoke.

Anita — Seat I

The Apex Vampire.

Her eyes glowed crimson. A halo of blood ribbons floated around her, dancing to her heartbeat.

Blood manipulation so refined she could kill without raising a hand.

Alessia — Seat II

The Black Veil.

Shadow incarnate. She moved like fog through cracks. Her steps made no sound.

Shadow mastery so complete she could erase her existence in daylight.

Mikael — Seat III

The Butcher King.

Massive, silent. Sword as tall as a man strapped to his back.



Strength unmatched. Brute force and fleshcraft.

Zane — Seat IV

The Crimson Authority.

Red eyes like coals. Calm. Calculating.

He wielded both blood and shadow—a dual mastery feared even by Anita.

Roland — Seat V

The Bone Architect.

Could reshape bone—his or yours—mid-combat.

His fingers twitched, sculpting nothing and everything.

Silas — Seat VI

The Echo Shifter.

Could copy any power used against him for ten seconds.

He smiled like he’d already won.

Kira — Seat VII

The Curse Weaver.

Her fingers trailed runes in the air. Every word she spoke twisted fate.

Osric — Seat VIII

The Chain Warden.

Forged his weapons from souls. His chains moved like serpents.

Silent, brutal.

Vel — Seat IX

The Wildspark.

Crackling with red lightning. Fastest of the fifteen. Could strike a hundred times in one blink.

Daron — Seat X

The vampire Strategist.

Just brilliance. Wore glasses. Always two steps ahead. Controlled battlefields like chessboards.

Mira — Seat XI

The Void Herald.

Could open miniature rifts—bite-sized pieces of oblivion.

Beautiful and distant.

Jax — Seat XII

The Clockwork Revenant.

Half-machine. Half-undead. All rage.

Moved with mechanical grace. Fought like time itself.

Fenra — Seat XIII

The Alpha Werewolf.

Silver-haired, golden-eyed. Muscles tense like coiled thunder.

A howl from her could shatter armor and hearts alike.

Serah — Seat XIV

The Crimson Thorn Witch.

Her magic grew from blood—rose vines laced with venom and sorrow.

Riven — Seat XV

The Last Human.

Normal. Pure. Yet here.

The only one who needed no power—because whatever he chose to do, he did perfectly.

They stopped behind Heron.

No fanfare.

Just presence.

Zane stepped forward, hands in pockets. His jacket flared in the wind. The "IV" on his back caught the flicker of the dying sun.

He looked down at the battlefield.

At the Fogwalkers.

At the rift.

At Balgron—half-buried in rubble, jaw dangling, barely conscious.

"Well," Zane said calmly. "She opened the gate. Cute."

He looked at Heron.

Heron gave a slow nod.

Then Zane’s red eyes sharpened—just slightly.

"Let’s end this."

And the ground cracked beneath them.

"Who are they?"

The question rippled through the battlefield—from leaders to soldiers, from the wounded to the watching. Even the Fogwalkers seemed to hesitate, their hollow eyes fixed on the fifteen cloaked figures and the draugr who stood before them like death incarnate.

No one had an answer.



Until—

Vulpina stepped forward.

Her tails swayed behind her, slow and deliberate. She looked toward the line of black coats and burning insignias with a grin tugging at the corner of her lips.

"That," she said, voice calm but laced with pride, "is the Origin Clan."

Everyone turned to her.

She crossed her arms.

"Lucifer created them."

A pause.

"Wanted to visit them, actually—before the world went to hell."

Her smile deepened, almost wistful. Not mockery. Not arrogance.

Just a quiet pride.

Like a mother watching her son’s storm finally roll in.