Chapter 152: Dimensional Visitors

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Chapter 152: Dimensional Visitors LILY POV The voice came from everywhere and nowhere at once. "Guardian! Please, you must help us!" I spun around in the basement where I’d been desperately trying to hold the dimensional tears closed. My hands still glowed with Guardian power, streams of silver light running from my fingers to patch the cracks in reality. But now something else was happening. A shimmering figure appeared in front of me—a woman who looked almost human except for her blue-tinted skin and eyes that held swirling galaxies. "Who are you?" I gasped, not daring to release my hold on the dimensional walls. If I stopped focusing for even a second, everything would collapse. "I am Zara from Reality Seventeen," the woman said quickly. "Our world is dying because the walls are failing there too. We felt your Guardian power across dimensions and came seeking help." More figures started appearing around me. A man with green skin and pointed ears. A child who seemed to be made of stars. Creatures I had no names for, all looking desperate and scared. "I can’t help you," I said, fear rising in my chest. "I can barely hold my own world together!" "But you’re the strongest Guardian we’ve found," Zara begged. "The tears in our reality started the same time as yours. They’re all linked somehow." Connected? My mind raced. I’d been so focused on saving Silver Peak that I hadn’t considered other worlds might be hurting too. Through my fading link to Caleb, I felt his distress somewhere above me. Something was wrong with him, but I couldn’t leave my place to help. "Please," said the starlight kid in a voice like music. "Our families are disappearing into the void. Whole cities are being swallowed." My heart broke for them, but what could I do? I was already burning through my life force trying to save one world. How could I possibly save different realities? "I don’t know how," I admitted, feeling tears on my face. That’s when another voice spoke—cold and mocking. "Perhaps I can offer assistance." The temperature in the basement dropped twenty degrees. The dimensional guests backed away in fear as a new figure stepped through one of the tears. This one was different—tall, beautiful, with silver hair and eyes like black holes. "Who are you?" I demanded, though something about him made my Guardian senses scream danger. "Lord Vex of the Void Walkers," he said with a bow that seemed like mocking. "I’ve been watching your struggles with great interest, young Guardian." The dimensional visitors gasped. Zara grabbed my arm frantically. "Don’t listen to him! The Void Walkers are the ones causing the tears!" "Are we?" Vex smiled, showing teeth like pointed stars. "Or are we simply trying to solve a problem that Guardians created?" "What do you mean?" I asked, though I didn’t want to hear the answer. "Every time a Guardian patches reality, they create pressure elsewhere," Vex explained casually. "Fix a tear here, and two more open somewhere else. You’re not fixing anything, child. You’re making it worse." The words hit me like a punch to the stomach. Was he speaking the truth? Every time I fixed a dimensional crack, were I causing more damage somewhere else? "He’s lying," said the starlight child, but her voice wavered with doubt. "Am I?" Vex motioned to the crowd of dimensional visitors. "How many more will come asking for your help? How many worlds are hurting because you insist on playing hero?" More figures began materializing around us—desperate beings from worlds I couldn’t even imagine. A woman made of moving water. A man whose body seemed to be carved from live stone. Creatures with too many eyes, or wings instead of arms, all looking at me with hopeful, pleading faces. "Help us, Guardian!" "Save our world!" "Our children are dying!" Their voices blended into a chorus of despair that made my head spin. The weight of their demands pressed down on me like a mountain. How could I choose which worlds to save when I couldn’t even save my own? "I can offer you a solution," Vex said smoothly. "Stop fighting the natural order. Let the walls fall completely. Yes, some worlds will merge or disappear, but the survivors will be stronger. Evolution through destruction." "That’s murder," I whispered. "That’s nature," he amended. "The weak realities will fade, and the strong will remain. No more fighting to hold everything together. No more burning your life away for selfish worlds." I felt another pulse of concern from Caleb through our echo bond. He was in serious trouble, and I couldn’t help him because I was trapped here holding reality together for people who might not even appreciate the effort. Maybe Vex was right. Maybe I was fighting a war I couldn’t win. "Don’t listen to him," Zara said quickly. "There has to be another way." "Is there?" I asked, tiredness making my voice crack. "I’m dying trying to save everyone, and it’s not working. Every day, more tears open. More worlds beg for help. When does it end?" "When you make the hard choice," Vex said softly, like he actually cared about me. "Stop trying to be everyone’s rescuer. Let go, and let nature take its course." The dimensional visitors looked frightened. They’d come seeking rescue and found only a burned-out Guardian who couldn’t even save herself. But then the starlight child stepped forward. "What if we helped you instead of asking for help?" "What?" I blinked in confusion. "We all have different kinds of power in our realities," she stated. "What if we shared our strength with you? Made you strong enough to fix everything properly?" Vex’s face darkened. "Impossible. Guardian power doesn’t work that way." "Maybe it hasn’t been tried before," Zara said hopefully. "Maybe that’s the real solution—Guardians working together across dimensions instead of struggling alone." For the first time in days, I felt a spark of hope. But before I could reply, Vex raised his hand, dark energy crackling around his fingers. "I cannot allow that," he said coldly. "If Guardians learn to work together, they become a threat to the natural order." The dimensional guests screamed as void energy lashed out at them. I automatically threw up a Guardian shield, but maintaining the dimensional barriers and protecting everyone at the same time pushed me past my limits. Pain burst through my chest as my life force burned even faster. I was going to die right here, right now, and take everyone with me when the barriers fell. Through our bond, I felt Caleb’s sudden terror as he sensed my coming death. He was fighting his own battle somewhere above, and now we were both going to lose. That’s when the starlight child grabbed my hand. "Now!" she shouted to the other guests. "Share your power with her!" Light erupted around us as beings from dozens of realities joined their power to mine. Power flowed through me like nothing I’d ever felt—not just Guardian energy, but the life force of entire dimensions. But instead of making me stronger, something surprising happened. The mixed energies began tearing me apart from the inside, scattering pieces of my soul across multiple worlds at once. As awareness started to fade, I realized with horror that I wasn’t just dying. I was becoming something else entirely. Something that existed in all dimensions simultaneously. And I had no idea if I’d still be me when the change was complete.

Chapter 152: Dimensional Visitors

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