Chapter 2671: Story 2672: The Child Within the Heart

The Beginning’s heart opened.

Something crawled from the crimson light.

Kael raised his white-starred sword.

The ancient Father stepped beside him.

“Do not fear it.”

“What is that?”

“The child that was never supposed to exist.”

Black figure climbed from the heart.

It was a child.

White symbols covered its skin.

Its eyes were crimson.

Lena stepped closer.

“It looks like us.”

The child looked at her.

“I remember you.”

Elias fell to his knees.

“That voice...”

The child turned toward him.

“Brother.”

“You know me?”

“I knew you before your name.”

Azael raised his weapon.

“Who are you?”

The child pointed at Kael.

“I am what remained when Elarion became Azrael.”

Kael froze.

“Part of me?”

“No.”

“I am what you gave away.”

Kael’s chest exploded with white light.

Memories rushed through him.

He saw himself beneath the white tree.

Seven children surrounded him.

Then a dark blade entered his chest.

Kael screamed.

The ancient Father shouted,

“Remember!”

The memory continued.

Kael saw his soul split.

One part became Azrael.

Another became Azael, Lena, and Elias.

The fifth and sixth children emerged.

A fragment became the crimson-eyed child.

Kael opened his eyes.

“You were separated from us.”

“By the Beginning.”

The Beginning roared.

“YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO REMEMBER!”

Its hand crashed downward.

The First Father blocked it.

White fire exploded.

“Run!”

Kael refused.

“No. We finish this together.”

The child looked afraid.

“If I return, the First Soul will become complete.”

“Then let it.”

The Beginning screamed.

Its heart opened.

Countless memories appeared.

Kingdoms.

Wars.

Broken worlds.

All connected to Kael.

Lena stared.

“He has been there through everything.”

“He was the memory carried by every generation.”

Kael looked at the child.

“Why hidden?”

“Because the Beginning feared what you would become if you remembered yourself completely.”

Azael stepped beside Kael.

“Remember.”

Elias stood.

Golden light surrounded him.

Lena raised her hand.

Red energy joined it.

The fifth spread wings.

The sixth released light.

Their powers flowed into Kael.

The child reached toward him.

Their hands touched.

A heartbeat filled the kingdom.

Boom.

Kael saw another memory.

The white tree was burning.

The First Father stood wounded.

The Beginning approached.

Behind it stood something without eyes or face.

The First Father whispered,

“That was the real enemy.”

Kael stared.

“The Beginning was not first.”

“No.”

The child looked upward.

“It was only the first thing we could see.”

Silence filled the kingdom.

Then the white sky cracked.

A black eye appeared.

The Beginning screamed.

The First Father raised his sword.

“It found us.”

Kael’s sword blazed brighter.

The crimson-eyed child stepped inside his light.

“Now you remember me.”

Kael closed his eyes.

“Yes. You are my lost heart.”

The child smiled.

“You are finally whole.”

The black eye widened.

A voice whispered.

“ELARION.”

Kael raised his sword.

The First Father stood with him.

His family gathered.

The Beginning trembled.

From beyond the broken sky, the true enemy entered the world.