The journey leads the group beyond Terra into the Rift Realm, accessed through a gateway hidden inside the ruins of The Sunken Spiral — a collapsed space elevator that pierces into dimensions. Within the Rift Realm, time is liquid and logic bends. Memories walk as men. Nightmares whisper truths.
Here, Benizame comes face-to-face with his grandfather — Lord Vaegros, the King of the Rift Demons. Towering and regal, with molten scars across his body, Vaegros is not the mindless destroyer Benizame expected. He is calm, calculating, and filled with grief.
Vaegros shows Benizame a chamber of timelines — where he witnesses himself living dozens of lives. A scholar. A killer. A god. A corpse. All paths end in ruin. Vaegros offers him a deal: become his heir, control the Rift Nexus, and create a better reality.
But Benizame refuses.
He learns that his father — once a noble general — had tried to stop Vaegros from merging all timelines into a single, perfect one. For that, Vaegros killed him. Reina fled.
Beneath this revelation, another truth is uncovered: Lyra, Vaegros's daughter and Benizame's aunt, has always watched him. She is cold and brutal but begins to question everything she's been raised to believe. Moved by his compassion, she defects and escapes with Benizame.
Meanwhile, the timelines begin collapsing. Rift storms intensify. The Time Devourer, a monstrous entity formed of discarded futures, begins waking under Vaegros's control. The final war is near.