"When light and darkness forget their boundaries, the neutral is no longer just an observer, but the judge."
The Ancient Book, The Balancing Phrase, Unnumbered Page
Everything has a breaking point, even the cosmos.
And on that day, the universe of the Chronicles of Codex could no longer bear the weight of two absolute poles, Heaven and Hell, that had only ever watched each other from afar.
On the right side of existence, the light formed its ranks
Michael, bearer of justice.
Gabriel, bringer of revelation.
Raphael, healer of the world's wounds.
Uriel, illuminator of ignorance.
Saraqael, forgiver of the wounded.
Raguel, balancer of the crooked.
Remiel, restorer of hope from the ruins.
On the left side of reality, darkness boiled in awareness:
Lucifer, glory that refuses to kneel.
Mammon, collector never satisfied.
Asmodeus, a body never done desiring.
Leviathan, tears seeking to drown love.
Beelzebub, hunger devouring existence.
Satan, wrath without reason.
Belphegor, silence that rots.
"We guard the light so the world may still hold meaning!" Michael shouted, his sword blazing like an unfinished scripture.
"And we guard the wound, so the world remembers why light is needed," replied Lucifer, his voice deep like the river of death.
No compromise. No diplomacy.
Only one shared belief, both sides were saving reality.
The battle began.
Heaven and Hell did not merely fight, they tore through concepts, split metaphors, and rewrote morality itself.
Gabriel and Asmodeus danced across the fields of meaning, where words became arrows and desire turned into shields.
Uriel scorched Beelzebub with heatless light, but Beelzebub vomited a greed that consumed the very value of illumination.
Raguel weighed Mammon's sins, yet Mammon shattered the scales with numbers from a dimension where ethics never existed.
The battle spread:
Level Space collapsed under the vibrations of broken causality.
The Broken Storage duplicated thousands of annihilation scenarios, protocols that could no longer be prevented.
The Storage lost its narrative. Cripty could not rewrite it. Even the meta-narrative froze.
The Real World began to fracture.
Humans dreamed of angels and demons and their dreams bled into reality, devouring logic.
The Circle of Darkness began to open... and that was the alarm.
When the world split, a voice echoed. Not from above. Not from below.
But from the center:
"I did not come to bring peace. I came to weigh."
His steps were heavy…
…but not because of mass because he carried an inescapable law.
ANUBIS, The Great Primordial God from the Realms of Transcendental.
Guardian of the Scales of Souls,
Embodiment of Law from The Third.
He was not merely an entity.
He was the final verdict before reality is declared a failure.
"Michael, you believe light gives direction.
Lucifer, you believe wounds forge will.
But you both forget one thing…"
Anubis raised his hand.
"…that light and darkness are two sides of the same law. And you have both crossed its line."
Gabriel tried to speak.
"I bring the Word"
"And your Word shook the scales," Anubis cut in.
Satan roared.
"I'm only expressing emotion!"
"But emotion without judgment becomes calamity."
Anubis summoned the Cosmic Scale.
Two sides: Heaven and Hell.
Every step, every deed, every intent weighed not by morality…
…but by universal balance.
And slowly, one by one…
they stopped.
Not out of defeat.
Not out of fear.
But because the law was absolute.
"Justice does not take sides. It only demands surrender from both."
With a gesture, the sky closed.
Hell's lava froze.
Angel wings folded.
Sin and virtue stared at each other… in silence.
Anubis walked between them, carrying the scale that never broke,
then looked up and down
to the Realms of Transcendental, and to the Circle of Darkness.
"This battle is no longer valid. You are suspended from destiny."
Afterward…
Cripty rewrote using ink given directly by Anubis.
Not a narrative. But a verdict.
"The war between light and dark cannot be won… if law is absent."
"And the law… has spoken."
The Ancient Book recorded that chapter as:
"The Day When Light and Darkness Were Judged as One."