The moment Kael crushed the stone, the world around him did not explode or collapse in any ordinary sense, and instead it shattered silently as if reality itself had been peeled away to reveal something far more overwhelming beneath it.
What replaced it was neither darkness nor light, but an endless expanse of existence where countless possibilities unfolded all at once.
They did not come one after another in a sequence that could be understood, and instead they flooded his mind simultaneously, forcing every possible outcome of his existence into his consciousness as though he was being made to witness everything he could ever become.
At first, it felt distant, like echoes of lives that did not belong to him.
However, that illusion did not last, because the visions quickly became vivid and tangible, and each one felt as real as the ground he once stood on.
