The origin engine roars to life.
Energy floods the chamber.
The sky fracture widens again.
The Observer watches closely.
Curious.
Aria stands at the center of the machine.
Power building.
Seraphine adjusts the control panels.
"Bridge opening."
Elias whispers.
"Temporal alignment stable."
Jonas holds a weapon nervously.
"I really hope this works."
Future Kael looks at the sky.
"It's coming."
The Observer's massive eye moves closer.
Studying the chamber.
Studying Aria.
Its voice echoes.
"You cannot trap inevitability."
Aria raises her hand.
"Watch me."
The machine fires a beam into the sky.
Reality bends.
The Observer suddenly stops moving.
For the first time—
The cosmic creature looks uncertain.
Because the trap…
is actually working.
And the next move will decide whether the universe survives.
Or ends forever.