During a scouting mission Kael was trapped under collapsing ruins after an ambush.
Lyra tried lifting debris.
Couldn't.
Rylan tried.
Failed.
The stranger tried.
Nothing.
Kael laughed weakly:
"Of course this is how I go."
Lyra snapped.
"No."
She pushed beyond her limits.
Unlocked partial gravity manipulation through absorption.
Lifted everything.
Saved him again.
But she fainted afterward.
Her body was reaching dangerous limits.
Lyra woke weaker than ever.
Her body beginning to reject her power load.
The stranger warned.
"If you continue like this… your body will burn out."
Her answer:
"Then I become stronger than the limit."
This is her final psychological evolution starting.
Her power began evolving again on its own.
For the first time in weeks…
Nothing attacked.
No threats.
Just quiet.
The four sat watching the sunset.
Rylan said.
"If we survive all this… what then?"
Kael answered.
"I stay."
The stranger said:
"So do I."
Lyra whispered:
"Then we build something."
Hope existed again.
But far away…
Seraph activated a massive celestial structure.
His final plan.
"The balance experiment ends soon,"
he declared.