The Architects of Eternity

José Monteiro achieved what no Montarion had managed since the beginning of the Great Cycles. He negotiated with the Universe itself. He refused to become Emperor, prevented the convergence of realities and destroyed the seeds of the Artificial Intelligence that would lead to the War of the Heirs. For the first time, the future was no longer set in stone. But freedom came at a price. As part of the deal, when his human children turned twenty, they would be called to the Centre of the Universe. Gabriel and Daniel would gain access to the knowledge accumulated by the nine civilizations of the Council and would stop aging biologically. They would not be immortal. They wouldn’t fall ill or age, but they could die. They could be murdered. And no Primordial Law would condemn the species responsible for its death. Their mission would be to find what neither the Council, nor the Druids, nor the Universe itself ever discovered: a way to stabilise all universes without forcing them to merge into a single reality. Twenty years later, the call arrives. Prepared by Sofia through Spulve science, the history of the Universe, strategy, philosophy, and combat, the two brothers enter the Council as free men. They only have to appear once a year and can build their own lives. However, the universes remain wounded. The connections between realities are disappearing, and a time will come when no union, solution, or sacrifice can save them. In the Council's archives, Gabriel and Daniel discover that the answer might lie in a conclusion they reached as children: a portal does not truly transport a person through space. It convinces the Universe that they are already on the other side. If it is possible to convince the Universe that a person belongs elsewhere, maybe it is possible to make millions of universes recognise themselves as parts of the same system without destroying or merging them. To prove this theory, the brothers will have to cross borders that no civilisation has ever crossed, challenge the fundamental laws of existence and survive all those who prefer a known solution to an impossible hope. But the time that stopped passing through their bodies will continue to take the people they love. And when Gabriel and Daniel start defending different paths to save existence, they will discover that the greatest danger might not be in the dying universes. It could be between the two of them. José Monteiro broke the prophecy. Now, his children will have to show that a future without a set path deserves to survive.