Chapter 136: Father’s Wrath
The moment Vexara spoke those words, something fundamental broke inside Reed Thorne.
Not his heart—that had shattered long ago. Not his spirit—that had been ground to dust across sixty years of warfare. What broke was the last restraint that kept him human.
The quantum storm that erupted from his core wasn’t rage. It was something far more primal—the fury of a father who had watched his children become monsters, wielded as weapons by forces beyond mortal comprehension. Lightning the color of spilled blood cascaded from his form as reality itself recoiled from the transformation.
"No more," Reed’s voice carried harmonics that hadn’t existed moments before. "No more games. No more choices. No more mercy."
His tactical implants overloaded and burned out, replaced by something infinitely more dangerous—pure, unfiltered will made manifest. The Entropy Collective’s crystal throne room began to crack as Reed’s ascending power challenged the very concept of endings.
"Reed!" Lyralei screamed, her dimensional armor flaring as she tried to contain the reality storm. "You don’t understand what you’re doing!"
But Reed was beyond understanding, beyond reason. He had become the Sovereign of Storms, a force of nature wearing the face of a broken father. His quantum consciousness expanded, touching every reality where his son’s empty peace had taken root.
"I gave them life," Reed snarled, his form now wreathed in tempests of raw creation and destruction. "I will not watch him steal their souls."
Nihil the Unmaker recoiled as Reed’s transformation sent cracks through the Entropy Collective’s very foundation. "Impossible. You cannot simply reject entropy. The heat death of meaning is inevitable—"
"Watch me."
Reed’s departure from the entropy realm wasn’t teleportation—it was an act of violent editing upon reality itself. He tore through dimensional barriers like paper, leaving wounds in space-time that would never heal. Behind him, the Screaming Nexus began to form as his fury destabilized the junction between realities.