1 THE SKY WAS BROKEN Location: Adamawa State, Nigeria Date: May 26, 2026 Status: Planetary Integration Event — Day 0 Ayo woke to screaming.
At first, he thought it was part of a nightmare.
Then the entire house shook.
His eyes snapped open.
Red light flooded his bedroom.
Not sunlight.
Not fire.
Something worse.
The morning sky outside his window looked like blood poured across the heavens.
Another violent tremor rattled the walls.
People screamed outside.
Car alarms wailed across the neighborhood.
Dogs barked wildly.
Ayo threw off his blanket and rushed outside barefoot, his chest heaving.
The moment he stepped into the street— he stopped cold.
Everyone was outside.
Neighbors.
Families.
Children crying in confusion.
Some pointed upward with trembling hands.
Others prayed openly.
An old woman had collapsed onto her knees, whispering verses under her breath as tears streamed down her face.
Ayo slowly looked up.
And his mind went blank.
The sky was broken.
Massive cracks stretched across the heavens like shattered glass.
Beyond those fractures… was darkness.
Not ordinary darkness.
An endless cosmic abyss that seemed far too vast for the human mind to comprehend.
Ayo felt his stomach twist violently.
Humanity was never supposed to see something like this.
But then he noticed the real horror.
Behind the shattered sky— was a colossal transparent dome surrounding the entire planet.
A barrier.
A cage.
And now… there was a hole in it.
Something descended through the opening.
Then another.
Then hundreds more.
Monsters.
Winged creatures streaked across the atmosphere like meteors.
Gigantic beasts crashed into distant buildings.
Some resembled twisted animals.
Others looked like nightmares dragged out of ancient mythology.
One creature with six crimson eyes tore through an apartment complex with a single swipe.
Explosions erupted across the city.
Smoke rose into the crimson sky.
Humanity collapsed into chaos within seconds.
“We’re dead…” someone whispered nearby.
A young mother clutched her child tightly as she cried uncontrollably.
Ayo’s fists clenched.
Fear spread through his body like ice water.
This wasn’t fiction.
This wasn’t a movie.
The world was ending.
Then— everything stopped.
A monster froze in midair.
Smoke halted above burning buildings.
Falling debris remained suspended motionless in the sky.
Even the wind disappeared.
Silence swallowed the planet.
Then a cold mechanical voice echoed inside every human mind.
[WORLD INTEGRATION COMPLETE.] [THE ETERNAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN ACTIVATED.] [EARTH HAS BEEN SELECTED.] [TIME HAS BEEN PAUSED.] [ALL LIFEFORMS ARE GRANTED TEN MINUTES TO SELECT THEIR CLASS.] Blue translucent screens materialized before every human on Earth.
Panic exploded instantly.
“What is this?!” “A hologram?!” “Am I dreaming?!” People screamed in terror.
Some tried touching the floating windows.
Others collapsed entirely.
Ayo stared silently at the screen hovering before him.
Then suddenly— his interface distorted.
The blue light flickered violently before turning silver.
Ancient symbols spread across the screen like living runes.
The temperature around him dropped sharply.
Frost crept across the ground beneath his feet.
The system changed.
[ABNORMAL SOUL DETECTED.] [LAW RESONANCE IDENTIFIED.] [OBSESSION HAS EXCEEDED NORMAL PARAMETERS.] [SPECIAL PRIVILEGES GRANTED.] Ayo’s heartbeat slowed.
“…What?” The interface shifted again.
[YOU MAY ALTER:] • NAME • RACE • AFFINITY • BLOODLINE His eyes widened.
Nobody around him reacted.
Only he could see this.
No— not only him.
Somewhere across Earth, a tiny number of individuals had also triggered hidden conditions.
People whose obsessions had transcended ordinary humanity.
People whose souls had unconsciously resonated with the Laws themselves.
And Ayo’s obsession had always been singular.
Dragons.
Not ordinary dragons.
Primordial Dragons.
Existences beyond kings.
Beyond gods.
Beyond reality itself.
His fingers trembled slightly.
Then— he smiled.
“A primordial dragon…” The interface expanded.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NAME: AETERNUS ASGORATH MORNINGSTAR TITLE: None RACE: Primordial Dragon CLASS: Unknown RANK: Unknown LEVEL: 1 AGE: 21 AFFINITY: Ice BLOODLINE GRADE: PRIMAL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HP: ????
MP: ????
STAMINA: ????
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AUTHORITIES: • Ice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SKILLS: • Glacial Dominion • Frostfall Apocalypse • World Freeze • Dragon Roar ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PASSIVES: • Eternal Regeneration • Primordial Resistance • Dragon Fear Aura ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ayo stared at the screen for several long seconds.
Then he pressed confirm.
Agony exploded through his body.
“AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!” He collapsed onto the frozen street as icy energy erupted from his skin.
Cracks of frost spread across the ground in every direction.
His bones shattered— then reformed.
Again.
Again.
Again.
It felt like liquid ice was replacing his blood.
An overwhelming pressure burst from deep within his soul.
Nearby people began trembling uncontrollably.
The air itself froze.
Then— he heard it.
A roar.
Ancient.
Majestic.
Tyrannical.
It sounded like a primordial existence awakening after eternal slumber.
Blue flames erupted around his body.
But they carried no heat.
Only absolute cold.
Everything they touched crystallized instantly.
Cars froze solid.
The streets vanished beneath layers of ice.
Even the atmosphere glittered with frozen particles.
Then another force erupted from within him.
Crimson dragon energy exploded outward violently.
Wild.
Dominating.
Monstrous.
The crimson aura collided with the blue frost flames— and merged.
Purple energy engulfed the surroundings, distorting the atmosphere itself.
Ayo’s transformation accelerated.
His body evolved rapidly.
Lean muscle formed across his frame.
His pale skin almost seemed luminous beneath the icy glow.
Then his hair changed.
Pure white strands flowed downward naturally, mixed with crimson red and icy blue.
His eyes slowly opened.
Brilliant sapphire blue.
Cold.
Beautiful.
Inhuman.
Those were no longer human eyes.
They were the eyes of a dragon.
Ayo breathed heavily as power surged through every part of his body.
Then his back suddenly burned.
He turned toward the shattered reflection of a nearby car window— and froze.
A massive symbol stretched across his back.
A majestic dragon wrapped around a radiant star.
Above it— a single word written in ancient draconic script.
AETERNUS.
The symbol pulsed faintly.
Alive.
Before he could process it— pain exploded through him again.
Dark crimson energy erupted outward.
Bones cracked violently.
His spine expanded.
Something burst from his back.
“GRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!” Four pairs of enormous wings erupted outward.
Eight massive draconic wings unfolded behind him, each radiating overwhelming pressure.
Buildings trembled.
Windows shattered.
Crimson scales spread across his skin.
Sharp claws extended from his fingers.
A massive tail slammed into the frozen ground behind him.
Ayo’s breathing became ragged.
He was no longer human.
Even in this newborn state— his existence felt terrifying.
His crimson scales gleamed like divine gemstones.
Blue frost flames danced around his enormous body.
Crimson dragon energy surged endlessly from within him.
Then both forces merged once more— creating a magnificent purple aura that illuminated the heavens.
Even the monsters trapped in suspended time instinctively trembled.
And deep beyond the shattered sky— something ancient opened its eyes.
Because a Primordial Dragon… had just been born.
The purple aura slowly faded.
Silence returned.
Frozen streets stretched endlessly beneath him.
Ayo stared down at his claws.
“…What did I become?” Even his voice sounded different now.
Deeper.
Older.
Behind him, his eight wings twitched instinctively, as though they had always existed.
A new notification appeared.
[RACE EVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL.] [UNIQUE EXISTENCE DETECTED.] [WARNING.] [PRIMORDIAL-CLASS ENTITIES SHOULD NOT EXIST ON A NEWLY INTEGRATED WORLD.] Ayo frowned.
“What does that even mean?” Before the system could respond— another message appeared.
Unlike the others… this one felt alive.
[Interesting.] Ayo’s pupils narrowed instantly.
“…Who said that?” No answer came.
Instead— something horrifying happened.
Every monster beyond the shattered sky turned toward him simultaneously.
Thousands upon thousands of glowing eyes locked onto his existence.
Even while time remained frozen— they had sensed him.
A chill crawled down Ayo’s spine.
The system spoke again.
[WARNING.] [MULTIPLE EXTRADIMENSIONAL ENTITIES HAVE DETECTED THE USER.] [SURVIVAL PROBABILITY: 0.003%] Ayo stared at the message.
Then— he laughed softly.
“You’ve seriously got to be kidding me…” Blue frost flames ignited around his claws.
Fear still existed inside him.
But beneath that fear— something else was growing.
Excitement.
For as long as he could remember, he had dreamed of dragons.
Dreamed of transcending humanity.
Dreamed of becoming something greater.
And now— the impossible had become reality.
The world had turned into fantasy.
No.
Something far beyond fantasy.
Ayo slowly raised his head toward the shattered heavens.
Toward the monsters.
Toward the infinite unknown worlds waiting beyond Earth.
Then he smiled.
A dangerous smile.
“If the world is ending…” Purple energy erupted around him violently.
“…then I’ll rule the end of it.” At that exact moment— the countdown reached zero.
[TIME RESUMPTION COMMENCING.] [WELCOME TO THE ETERNAL SYSTEM.] The world moved again.
And the very first thing humanity heard— was the roar of a newborn Primordial Dragon.