Ember Oath: The Pyre Genealogy

The bronze womb collapses into a Klein palette at the event horizon's edge, Serein's skin oozing blood-cuneiform scripts. The lava inscriptions on City Hall's dome grow inversely, each stroke sucking memory ashes from his alchemical furnace—resurrection protocols written by the First Patriarch with funeral epitaphs from seven thousand parallel universes. 

Gurak's mechanical heart quantum-leaps into the furnace core, gear-grinding sounds recomposing into a lullaby for god-corpses. Bronze tomb-door fragments in the orc's chest emit gamma rays, melting skyscrapers into liquid genealogies that congeal into counterclockwise **Bloodline Nebulae**. 

"Warning! Divine parasitization exceeds critical threshold!" Eluinora's lies crystallize into alert chips in Serein's cochlea. "Override dermal code with the Pyre Covenant now!" 

Serein tears open his Entropic Forceps, cervical data streams burning into **Anti-Recursive Sacred Flames**. Where flames lick, lava inscriptions regress into mourners' tattoos, blockchain umbilici reconfigure into Klein Möbius strips. The bronze baby walker wreckage in the plaza suddenly chants the *Ember Requiem*, its basket's unpaid childcare bills folding into micro black holes that devour resurrection protocols. 

Pacific orca pods quantum-entangle, their 52Hz cries compiling the ultimate alchemical formula on Serein's retinas. As the first drop of deicide elixir forged from genealogy ashes falls into his eye, he sees: 

- Eluinora's right eye is a **chrono-lens** cast from mermaid tear alloys 

- The orc's mechanical spine is actually the First Patriarch's testamentary seal 

- His own heart beats to the entropy rhythms of 7,201 universes 

The bronze womb goes supernova. Serein shreds his cuneiform-carved skin with Entropic Forceps. Chain reactions between resurrection code and Pyre Covenant rewrite the Everburn Labyrinth: 

- The furnace evolves into the event horizon's **Confessional** 

- Bloodline Nebulae reconfigure into cross-dimensional **Genealogy Firewalls** 

- Forgotten memories bloom into coral-shaped tombstones in anti-matter seas 

As the last god-corpse spore is strangled by Klein Möbius strips, Serein's furnace erupts with pure white oblivion ashes. The First Patriarch's final memory emerges—him modifying his own infant into a recursive function with bronze forceps. 

"Now you understand?" Eluinora's lie-chip melts in the heat. "We are self-immolating genealogies—deicides and the newborn gods' first cries." 

City Hall's clocktower gears reverse. What flows from lava inscriptions isn't blood but mint-scented oblivion elixir. Serein knows this is the resurrection protocol's final trap—drinking it would make him the new era's demiurge, at the cost of formatting all Octavius memories into blank covenants. 

He lifts the vial containing the orc's last mechanical heart fragment, Eluinora's chrono-lens shard, and his own extracted Klein retina. 

"I refuse." 

Serein pours the elixir onto burning genealogies. "Some curses deserve eternal remembrance as defiance." 

Where ashes ascend, the Everburn Labyrinth collapses into a bronze-bound alchemy manuscript. Its back cover bears the First Patriarch's unfinished epitaph: 

**All salvations are elaborate traps** 

**All traps are shortcuts to salvation**