Davin’s right hand, bearing the hourglass symbol, was planted squarely against his future self's chest. The thrum of cosmic energy waves froze instantly between the two of them. Future Davin gasped, his eyes flying wide open to stare at present-day Davin—not with pain or fury, but with a profound, overwhelming sense of relief.

Yet, present-day Davin had no intention of taking his twin's life.

Instead of ending his future self, Davin redirected the entire flow of cosmic energy from his palm straight through the older man's chest, channeling it directly into the giant notebook—The Ledger—resting upon the stone altar right behind them.

"Initiating self-purge protocol... Warning: Host memory capacity reaching critical limits... Consciousness will be entirely dissolved," the system's cold voice boomed loudly inside Davin's head.

Davin ignored the warning. He shut his eyes tightly, then leveraged every remaining ounce of his memory capacity, his remaining emotions, and maximum-tier Echo strength to hack directly into the core source code of The Ledger from within.

Inside his mind, a massive barrier wall of code stood firm. Davin slammed against that wall repeatedly using his final fragments of memory—recollections of Lyra, Valeri, the villagers of Oakhaven, and even his father's face.

Break... shatter this prison! Davin’s mind screamed with unwavering resolve.

Crack... ZZZT—BOOM!

The giant notebook's source code barrier wall shattered into pieces. Davin successfully breached the heart of The Ledger system, corrupting the cosmic memory storage structure that had served as a prison for millions of human consciousnesses for thousands of years.

Instantly, the scenery within the Nexus hall transformed into an unimaginably grand and blinding visual spectacle.

Present-day Davin’s body slowly lifted, floating upward from the black marble floor. Every joint and inch of his skin began to radiate a brilliant white light, shining so intensely it outshone the galaxy of stars on the Nexus ceiling. He bled and ached no longer; his physical form began to fuse completely with the system's flowing data stream.

Beside him, future Davin's body smiled peacefully, then slowly dissolved into thousands of golden light particles drifting freely in the air.

"Thank you... young Architect," his future self's voice whispered, fading slowly to melt into the cosmic wind.

The giant notebook atop the stone altar vibrated violently. The pure light pages within it tore and burned from the pure white energy overflowing from Davin’s body.

Crack... CRACK—BOOM!

The Ledger shattered into pieces in a cataclysmic explosion of pure white energy, utterly destroying the cosmic storage container until nothing remained. Book fragments scattered in all directions, fusing alongside the billions of consciousness strands stretching across the entire hall.

As The Ledger's core was completely obliterated down to nothing, every simulated world across the parallel universes—the illusion village of Oakhaven, the cyberpunk megacity of Neo-Veridia, and the floating islands of Aethelgard—began to flicker out in unison, leaving total silence within the Nexus room.