POV: Xavier

The Architect attacked during the most vulnerable moment of the merging. We were halfway through the process. Three and a half realities combined, three and a half still separate. Physical laws were chaos. Consciousness fragmenting and reforming. Reality itself barely holds together.

Perfect time to strike.The Architect manifested fully, its geometric form expanding across all seven realities simultaneously. And it brought weapons we'd never seen.

Concept erasers on massive scale. Not just removing abstract ideas but deleting entire categories of existence. "Life" started disappearing. Not killing things but making the concept of living organisms impossible.

"All forces, defensive positions!" I commanded. "Protect the merging zones!"

Every hero, every...