Regression: Reclaiming the End

[Entity Detected: "Thryssal, the Null-Titan"]

[Classification: Rift-Born Cataclysm | Apex Variant | Shard-Cursed]

[Warning: Entity classified beyond standard threat models.]

Then I saw it.

And for the first time in a long, long while, I hesitated.

Its body was split down the center by a blazing Rift Core, visible through its cracked chest—a Shard Heart. It wasn’t just born from magic.

It wasn’t just tall. It towered, casting a shadow that reached across the entire chamber. A vaguely humanoid silhouette made of void-cracked obsidian plates stitched together by glowing scars of Rift corruption. Its head bore no features—just a jagged crown of pulsating crystal that hummed like a dying sun.

There was no heat around it.

Only hunger.

Magic bent around it. No—magic fled.

And then I saw the truth.