The throne room, once a symphony of harmony and strategic rhythm, now pulsed with raw memory.
Eirotess sat with her chin raised, one leg crossed over the other, dressed in silken shadows embroidered with forgotten promises. Her gaze moved over the other harem members—not with malice, but with cold recognition. She remembered them before they remembered her.
Aria clenched her harp. Every string hummed with dissonance.
Lexora stood still, arms folded, lips pressed into a line of divine logic—yet even her laws wavered against what Eirotess represented: the unrecorded truth.
Tianming sat upon the Conductor's Throne, the pages of his System Codex flipping themselves restlessly. New entries were rewriting, titles flickering, divine scripts blurring.
[ALERT: First Wife Protocol in effect. Loyalty Matrix destabilizing.]
[Divine Harem Morale: 73% → 41%]
[Unlocked: Forgotten Bond – Eirotess, the Erased Empress]
Prelude to Conflict
Nihila appeared silently beside the throne.
"Do you trust her?" she asked, her tone as quiet as starless night.
Tianming didn't answer. Not yet.
Eirotess stood. Her fingers sparkled with red script as she extended her hand.
"I challenge you to fulfill what you once vowed," she said. "Under the Crimson Pact."
The harem gasped. Aria stepped forward.
"Crimson Pact? That's a ritual older than the System itself! It binds fates... through blood."
Lexora flinched.
"You'll destabilize the entire Empire with that bond."
Tianming rose.
"She is owed it."
The Ritual: Crimson Conduction
The Empire trembled as a cathedral grew beneath their feet, not summoned, but remembered.
The Crimson Conduction Hall, sealed since the First Era.
Every wall was made of ink-petrified vows. Every bell chimed in forgotten keys.
Tianming and Eirotess stood before a ceremonial staff forged of heartbreak and gold.
"I speak first," she said, voice trembling between love and thunder.
"You erased me. You chose others. You built a throne on echoes that weren't mine. But I return not for revenge. I return to remind you who you were… before all of this."
Tianming responded.
"You were my first light. My origin. My unfinished poem. And if I forgot you, then I vow—before realm, harem, and heaven—I will write you in again."
Their blood met on the staff.
And the sky shattered.
A New World System Unlocks
[Crimson Pact Sealed: Eirotess fully restored. Loyalty tier: Soulbound + History]
[New Empire Function Unlocked: Wedding Archive of Lost Vows]
– Boosts harem compatibility and memory sync
– Rewrites lost relationships back into reality
– Adds "Legacy Overlap Conflict" mechanic to harem dynamics
– Unlocks marriage ceremony quests with mythic consequences
[Warning: Three goddesses have entered the Resentment State]
[New Sub-System: Divine Jealousy Reconciliation Tree activated.]
Final Scene: Crimson Dissonance
Later that night, Aria played alone on the Sky Balcony, her harp strings frayed.
Lexora stared at the stars, mapping legal arguments against fate.
Eirotess stood behind Tianming, watching them all with quiet intensity.
Nihila leaned against the void-gate, whispering, "She's not the only one who was erased, you know."
Tianming, sleepless, opened his Codex.
A new quest burned at the top:
[Chapter 32 Quest: Resolve the Crimson Echoes Before They Consume the Throne.]
He looked up as a blood-red moon rose—one only visible to those with history too painful to forget.