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Chapter 53 - The Trial of The True Primordial

Opening Scene: A Raging Clockscape

Time distorts around Nel as he's pulled into a place beyond reality—The Inner Spiral—a sentient realm inside his core, created by the collision of Bangador, Dextor, and Ozgath.

He awakens on a platform orbiting a fractal sun. In the distance: three thrones—empty but radiating energy.

Suddenly, three echoes appear:

Bangador's echo: a hulking figure made of explosion and silence.

Dextor's echo: a cloaked tactician of glowing code and equations.

Ozgath's echo: a serpentine shadow with countless eyes and paradoxes.

Each speaks with a voice inside his mind:

> Bangador: "Destroy the Architect. Break free."

> Dextor: "Reprogram the system. Take control."

> Ozgath: "Dissolve identity. Embrace the unknowable."

Nel: "I don't want any of that. I just want to protect the people I care about."

> All three echoes: "Then choose what kind of Primordial you will be."

Suddenly, Nel is split into three copies of himself—each wielding a different philosophy:

One filled with rage (Bangador)

One with calculation (Dextor)

One with madness and freedom (Ozgath)

He must fight… himself.

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Meanwhile: Outside, in the Countdown Arena

The rest of the crew finds themselves in a dimension that resembles warped versions of Keningau landmarks, floating and disintegrating.

Chelestar: Now with two tails glowing, senses the Architect's code woven into the fabric of space.

> Chelestar: "We have 71 hours before existence resets."

Kriz Neo, with his Kriz Scythe, leads the team:

> "Split up. Each zone holds a failsafe crystal. We need to destroy them before the timer hits zero."

Zones:

1. Keningau Sports Complex – guarded by phantom Fenrirs.

2. SK White Mist ruins – twisted into a logic maze.

3. Bingkor Market – frozen in time with shadow-clones of themselves hunting them.

Elly May activates Phantom Split, using clones to scout all areas, while Kriztan Nico overrides the Architect's digital guardians.

> Kriztan: "Dad's coding is sloppy when he's panicking."

Suddenly, a new enemy appears—the Clockbound Exiles, failed experiments of The Architect, sent to stop them.

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Back Inside Nel's Trial

Nel defeats the rage-self and logic-self—but struggles with the madness-self, which whispers truths and lies:

> "You don't know who you are because you were never meant to exist."

Nel: "That's what makes me powerful. I write my own origin."

The three parts merge—and Nel evolves.

> A symbol forms on his chest: a three-fold sigil with a broken circle, shifting triangle, and a spiral with no center.

He is no longer just a child of the Bang—he is the True Primordial.

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Final Scene

As Nel exits the Inner Spiral, he sees the countdown now reads:

> [REBOOT IN: 48 HOURS]

But now… he controls the Spiral.

> Nel: "I'm rewriting the end."

TO BE CONTINUED…

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