Kai looked at his inventory. Sixty-three trillion gems. Each one a stolen second, a forgotten promise, a tear he hadn't shed yet.
His avatar shattered into a billion fragments of light. Each gem screamed as it was returned to its origin—Lena’s smile flashed across a sapphire, his mother’s voice echoed from a ruby, the rain on his tenth birthday fell from an emerald. The portal collapsed. The Vault of Echoes went silent. Kai woke up on his apartment floor. The screen was black. His bank account showed a zero balance. His phone had seventeen missed calls from Lena. Limited Edition RePack By RG Revenants Unlimited Gems
, the screen confirmed.
The chest didn’t open. It dissolved . The obsidian peeled back like burnt skin, revealing not loot, but a portal. A swirling vortex of gem fragments, each one screaming with a different color—red for rubies, blue for sapphires, green for emeralds. And at the center, a cold, white diamond that pulsed like a heartbeat. Kai looked at his inventory
She laughed, confused. He didn’t explain. His avatar shattered into a billion fragments of light