Phyrexia: All Will Be One

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Story Chapters

1. 01

   Ten planeswalkers, one weapon

   The strike team assembled around the new Sylex because Realmbreaker made delay more dangerous than an assault.

   Karn’s captivity revealed the scale of Elesh Norn’s design. Realmbreaker, grown with stolen World Tree essence, would carry Phyrexian armies along its branches without requiring each soldier to planeswalk. The Planar Bridge had delivered praetors and components; the tree would turn exceptional crossings into an invasion network.

   Ten planeswalkers joined the strike: Jace, Elspeth, Kaya, Kaito, the Wanderer, Nahiri, Tyvar, Lukka, Nissa and Vraska. Their strengths were different, from Nahiri's command of stone and metal to Kaya's ability to pass through solid obstacles. Jace carried the Sylex, but the lives of other planes depended on decisions no single team member could safely own. Koth was already on the occupied plane, guiding its resistance alongside Melira; he joined the survivors during the descent rather than arriving with that original group.

   Their common purpose concealed an unavoidable weakness. Each member was not merely a soldier but a route to another plane, a library of relationships and a powerful body Phyrexia could repurpose. The mission required them to remain themselves inside a system whose central talent was turning identity into material.

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2. 02

   The spheres break the team

   A planar defence scattered the attackers, forcing small groups to descend through environments that lied as effectively as enemies.

   The team did not land together. A barrier disrupted their arrival and dropped them across the Monumental Facade and lower spheres without equipment, orientation or certainty that the others had survived. Kaito, Nahiri and the Wanderer encountered a surface that imitated safety while numbing the impulse to resist.

   Below that shell lay the damaged remnants of Mirrodin. Melira and other resistance fighters had preserved communities in spaces New Phyrexia considered already conquered, learning which structures could be sabotaged and which routes merely invited pursuit. Their knowledge replaced the reconnaissance the strike team had lost on arrival.

   The descent made coordination a sequence of faith. Each group moved toward the Furnace because the plan required someone else to be doing the same. The further they travelled, the less they could distinguish delay from death or compleation. New Phyrexia did not need to stop every attacker; it only needed to make reunion arrive too late.

   Kaito's arrival makes the danger tangible. The artificial beach lulls him toward sleep, while the Wanderer struggles to remain on the plane after the barrier disrupts her unstable spark. Nahiri fights through the metallic sand, but conceals a cut on her neck. Melira then guides the survivors beneath the Facade to Mirrex and the resistance's route downward. One apparently minor wound is already threatening the mission.

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3. 03

   Infection does not wait

   Small injuries became strategic deadlines as members of the team disappeared into Phyrexia’s machinery.

   Nahiri concealed the seriousness of an early wound because stopping for one person could doom every plane. That decision expressed the mission’s logic and served the enemy’s. Oil transformed time into pressure: admitting infection might protect the group, while concealment allowed the infected planeswalker to keep solving immediate problems until the corruption could use those solutions.

   Other routes collapsed differently. Lukka joined himself to a Phyrexian beast and lost the boundary he believed he controlled. Vraska was found too late for Jace’s mind magic to offer more than a private farewell. Nissa was taken into the systems surrounding Realmbreaker. Each fall reduced the team and increased the quality of the forces waiting ahead.

   Compleation did not erase every memory or skill. It redirected them. That distinction made the converted walkers dangerous and tragic: their familiar instincts could still be recognised, but their conclusions now served a world that treated consent as unfinished engineering.

   Jace's attempt to save Vraska turns this danger personal. She is already infected when he finds her in Sheoldred's coliseum. He conjures a peaceful Ravnican street for their farewell, but her last touch pierces his hand and passes the corruption to him. His magic can briefly give them a gentler setting; it cannot reverse what has happened to their bodies.

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4. 04

   Mirrodin pays for the route

   Koth and the resistance spent the last resources of their occupied home to move outsiders toward the Seedcore.

   For the Mirrans, the assault was not a sudden heroic expedition. It was the newest day of a resistance that had survived while the rest of the Multiverse learned New Phyrexia’s name. Koth’s maps, Melira’s immunity and the rebels’ hidden settlements were the product of years in which retreat never led beyond the plane.

   Urabrask’s rebellion created an imperfect opening against Elesh Norn, but no Phyrexian faction offered freedom in the form the Mirrans needed. Alliances were therefore tactical. The resistance used conflict between praetors without confusing a rival vision of Phyrexia with restoration of Mirrodin.

   Every opened lacuna and defended passage cost people who would never see the wider Multiverse they were helping. Their sacrifice reframed the strike team’s objective. Realmbreaker threatened countless planes, yet the road to it passed through a home whose destruction had already been accepted as background by many of those worlds.

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5. 05

   Jace reaches Realmbreaker

   The Sylex arrived at the invasion tree in Jace’s hands after the mission’s conditions for safe use had already disappeared.

   Jace reached the Seedcore with the weapon, but infection had turned his remaining time into a countdown. The original plan depended on destroying Realmbreaker before it connected to other planes. By the moment he prepared the Sylex, the branches had already begun touching the Multiverse.

   Activating the device could still kill the tree and New Phyrexia. It could also carry the detonation through those connections, making the rescuers responsible for devastation on the worlds they meant to protect. The weapon offered certainty only by ignoring where its consequences would travel.

   Jace continued because he could no longer trust that another opportunity existed—or because the infection was already reshaping what he considered acceptable. Around him, allies argued inside seconds that carried the weight of planes. The mission had reached its target and lost the moral clarity that made reaching it meaningful.

   Kaya and Kaito try to stop him. Jace projects false images of himself and even of the Sylex, keeping the real weapon beyond Kaya's grasp. He acknowledges that the explosion might destroy planes already reached by Realmbreaker, yet insists that the rest could survive. This is no longer the original mission's clean choice between a single occupied world and an untouched Multiverse.

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6. 06

   Elspeth takes the blast

   Elspeth removed the activated Sylex from the Seedcore, preventing one catastrophe and leaving Realmbreaker free to begin another.

   Elspeth saw that neither available outcome resembled victory. Allowing Jace to finish risked sending the Sylex through the connected branches. Stopping him without removing the weapon left its energy inside the Seedcore. She chose the one destination the plan had not prepared: she took the Sylex herself and carried it away.

   The blast vanished with her into the Blind Eternities. To those left behind, Elspeth appeared to have traded her life for worlds that might never know what she prevented. Her act interrupted the weapon but did not undo the losses already suffered. Jace, Nissa, Nahiri and Vraska remained in Phyrexian hands, and Realmbreaker still stood.

   Elesh Norn therefore began the invasion with a compromised but functioning network. The assault had damaged New Phyrexia, armed its defenders with knowledge and preserved the Multiverse from an indiscriminate explosion. It had not closed the door. The next war would be fought everywhere at once.

   Her intervention is physical, not merely a disagreement. As energy gathers inside the Sylex, Elspeth arrives, drives her sword through Jace and takes the device from his hands. She planeswalks away with it rather than allowing its detonation at the roots of the invasion tree. Jace falls wounded; Elspeth's destination, and whether she can survive the choice, remain unknown to those still in the Seedcore.

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7. 07

   Side route: Tyvar ends Tibalt's last ambush

   A compleated Tibalt turns doubt against Elspeth until Tyvar suppresses his magic and kills him with his own weapons.

   Near Realmbreaker, Elspeth and Tyvar confronted the compleated Ajani and Tibalt. The tormentor's altered body did not remove his preferred method: he fed Elspeth's guilt until her resistance weakened. A familiar fear became an immediate weapon.

   Tyvar caught Tibalt's tail and spread Glimmervoid metal across him. His transmutation suppressed the devil's magic, releasing Elspeth from the pressure long enough for her to overcome Ajani and continue toward the others.

   With his strength running down, Tyvar bent Tibalt's two tail barbs into the space of his heart and hurled him from the bridge. The impact below ended in silence. Tibalt was dead; the battle around the sylex and Realmbreaker was not yet resolved.

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