One Death, One Power-Season 1
Chapter 13 – The Nameless Path
There was no floor beneath Riku's feet.
No ceiling above.
Only motion.
The moment he chose the fourth door—the unnamed one—he was no longer in the Sealed Core. He wasn't anywhere. He was falling, not through space, but through truth.
"You chose the path that no god dared take."
"The path not granted—but remembered."
The voice was no longer just in his head—it was part of him. Each word ignited fragments of memory that weren't his… yet felt older than memory itself.
He fell through fire.
Then ice.
Then silence.
And then—
He landed.
The ground was black glass, stretching into eternity. No walls. No sky. Only faint echoes of whispers—each one saying his name differently.
"Riku."
"Rik'hul."
"Ryq."
"Rek'ha."
He staggered forward.
Then he saw it.
A mirror—tall as a mountain, made of blood and light. In its surface… he saw not himself.
He saw them all.
The boy who chose the Flame.
The girl who held Shadow.
The beast who wielded Storm.
And a final figure, wearing a mask with the Origin spiral.
And then the truth hit him.
They weren't other Reborn.
They were versions of him.
"This isn't just a system."
"It's a prison."
"And I've died in it… infinite times."
Behind him, the space shimmered.
A figure emerged—cloaked in void and stars. No face. No body. Just presence.
"You've finally remembered," it said.
"You were the first soul the gods ever tried to erase."
"You were their mistake."
Riku clenched his fists. "Then why keep bringing me back?"
"Because they fear the one thing even the divine cannot control."
The figure raised its hand.
A mark appeared in the air—similar to Riku's, but inverted.
"Choice."
"They made a system where souls trade death for power—but you were born with power they couldn't explain. So they buried you in cycles. In forms. In lies."
"Until now."
Riku stepped closer.
"I don't want their power. I want to destroy the whole cycle."
"Then learn who you really are."
The void behind the figure split open.
Inside it: a throne made of shattered code. At its center—a glowing sphere of soul-energy, pulsing violently.
"That is your original form. The true 'you'—before death, before summoning, before gods."
Riku reached for it.
His fingers touched the sphere—
And his body began to burn.
Not from pain. From awakening.
🔓 True Path Awakened: The Cyclebreaker
"You no longer trade death for power. You choose death to create your own laws."
Ability Gained: Soulwriting – rewrite a power's rule once per death.
Riku fell to one knee, gasping. But the fire didn't consume him. It changed him.
Clothing melted into a new form—black armor streaked with spirals of gold and silver, constantly shifting. His eyes burned silver-white. His voice echoed unnaturally.
"I am not one power anymore."
"I am the reason this system will end."
The chamber cracked.
The real world returned in flashes—Valen screaming, lightning falling, Reborn dying across a burning battlefield.
Riku's soul flared—and he reappeared in Velmora.
The gods felt it.
The sky dimmed.
And a new name echoed across the world.
"The Cyclebreaker has returned."
End of Chapter 13
Chapter 14(preview)
The gods meet in panic—and a hidden rebel faction of Reborn seeks to find Riku before the gods do?