As the mirror fell, the ink around her howled.
The Spiral collapsed inward — not crushed, but rewritten. The threads swirled around Jia Lin like a cloak of torn prophecy.
And at the heart of the inkstorm, a symbol revealed itself.
Not in Old Script. Not in any human tongue.
It was a word.
Her name.
But not as spoken.
As written by the world itself.
Jia Lin touched it.
And was flooded with memory — not her own, but hers all the same.
The first time she walked. The day she forgot her mother's face. The moment she stepped beyond fate.
The Word wrote itself into her body.
The Final Step Gu pulsed once.
And transformed.
It wrapped itself in the written name. It became a Mythborne Gu.
Final Step Gu: Ascended Form — Wordless Walk.
Effect: Step once. No story may record it. No fate may reach it.
As she opened her eyes, the Spiral Tower dissolved.
And she stood on a new plane — blank, vast, waiting.
A land untouched by script.
Where she would be the first word.
And the last step.