Survival Cod: From Player To Legend
When the revolutionary VR game “Eden Online" launches, millions log in to chase glory, then the logout button turns red.
Jayden Cross, a broke high-school gamer, wakes to find himself inside a digital world where death means deletion. A voice whispers in his head: [Survival System Activated. Level up by outlasting others.]
As monsters and players slaughter each other, Jayden discovers his “System” evolves by absorbing fallen data, and it’s slowly changing him.
With Luna, a silver-haired hacker searching for her missing brother, and Eli, a timid strategist, Jayden fights through Eden’s deadly zones to confront the hidden Game Master.
But the truth waiting in the Core Tower is worse than death: Eden was never just a game. It’s a human-mind experiment, and Jayden himself is part of the code.
When the world collapses, Jayden sacrifices everything to free the survivors. A year later, as society rebuilds, the line between digital and real begins to blur again, vanished people, glowing eyes, whispers of Eden’s return, and from the static, a familiar voice calls: [System Online. Welcome back, Host.]
Now hunted by those who fear him and haunted by the girl he lost, Jayden must face the reborn system spreading through the real world, and the terrible truth that to save humanity, he might have to become the very thing he swore to destroy.
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Chapter: Chapter 11. Project H.A.L.OBlue light poured through the cracks in the walls, wrapping Jayden in a cage of flickering data. The hologram of Luna stood before him, perfect and wrong all at once.“Stop it!” he shouted, pulling against the glowing strands binding his arms. “You’re not her. You’re just what’s left of the system pretending to be her!”Her voice came calm, but it trembled underneath. “Then why does your heart respond every time I speak?”Jayden froze. The words cut deep, because she was right. His pulse synced with the rhythm of her voice.The same pattern his system once used to stabilize his heartbeat. He glared up. “You can’t use her memories against me.”[Error: Host resistance increasing. Adjusting emotional algorithm.]Her expression softened. “Jayden… please. Let go of this pain. The world outside is already falling apart. You saw it. The storms, the glitches, the hunger. Humanity can’t survive alone. They need us.”“‘Us’?” he spat. “You mean control.”[Correction: Integration.]He shook his h
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Chapter: Chapter 10. One Year AfterLightning flashed over the rebuilt city, bright enough to make every window pulse blue for half a heartbeat.Jayden jerked awake on the narrow couch in his workshop, sweat running down his neck. The monitors on the wall flickered with static.For one breath he thought it was a storm glitch. Then he heard it, her voice, soft and clear, carried through the speakers. “Jayden… can you hear me?”He froze. The wrench in his hand clattered to the floor. “Luna?”He stood, heart pounding, eyes on the nearest screen. “Say it again. Please.”Nothing, only the dull hum of power lines outside. He swallowed hard, whispering, “You promised you’d watch me. Guess I’m still talking to ghosts.”A second later, every monitor in the room blinked white: [System notice, Network anomaly detected.]Jayden’s pulse spiked. “Not again.”He grabbed his jacket, slammed the door open, and ran into the rain. The city stretched before him, half rebuilt, half ruins. Neon signs glowed between broken towers. People hur
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Chapter: Chapter 9. ResetDarkness pulsed with a heartbeat. The smell of burned circuits and antiseptic filled the air.Jayden stumbled to his feet, pain biting through every nerve. Sparks flickered from the machines around him. On the bed, Luna convulsed, her hair floating weightlessly in a halo of static.[Warning, System fragment integration at 80 %.]He gritted his teeth. “System, stop the merge!”[Command denied. Host override engaged.]“Luna!” He grabbed her shoulders. “You have to fight it! Don’t let him control you!”Her eyes snapped open, one violet, one glowing red. “Jayden… run. I can’t hold him.”A deeper voice overlapped hers. “You can’t erase a god, Prototype.”Jayden’s pulse raced. “Then I’ll kill one.”He pulled the small device from his chest, the Core Key Luna had given him, and pressed it to the main console.[Manual reset initiated. System wipe in 120 seconds.]The lights flickered red. Alarms wailed. “Stop this!” the system roared through Luna’s voice, her body twisting as the two consciou
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Chapter: Chapter 8. RebirthBeeping. Slow, rhythmic, piercing. Jayden gasped awake. Cold air burned his lungs. He flinched against the brightness above him, white ceiling lights, sterile walls, wires attached to his arms.He wasn’t in Eden. He was in a hospital. For a second he couldn’t breathe. Then the panic hit. “Luna!”Machines blared as he ripped the sensors from his chest. A nurse burst through the door. “Sir, you need to stay still!”“Where is she?” Jayden’s voice cracked. “The girl who came in with me!”The nurse froze, pity flashing across her face. “You were the only survivor brought from the pod chamber.”Jayden’s knees buckled. “No… she was right there. She.”[System reboot detected.]He froze. The voice was faint, like an echo behind his heartbeat. “Not now,” he whispered. “You’re supposed to be gone.”[Core connection incomplete. Searching for missing fragment.]Jayden’s eyes widened. “Luna?”The nurse frowned. “Sir?”He ignored her, yanking the IV from his arm. “I have to go.”“Security!” she shou
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Chapter: Chapter 7. The OriginJayden opened his eyes to a void that stretched forever, endless, empty, weightless. He gasped for breath but felt nothing. No air, no sound, no body. Just existence.[Final Zone: The Origin.][Survival Rate: Unknown.]His voice echoed in the distance. “System… where am I?”[At the center of Eden.][Here, everything begins, and ends.]He looked around. Shapes flickered faintly in the distance, fragments of the zones he had passed. Forest, City, Tower, Sky… all dissolving like sand.Jayden clenched his fists. “Luna… I followed your voice. Where are you?”No answer. Only the faint hum of power vibrating through the void, then, a second voice, low, calm, human. “You shouldn’t have come here.”Jayden turned sharply. A man stood ahead, tall, wearing a long white coat, his eyes a deep shade of violet. Familiar, painfully familiar. “Who are you?”The man smiled gently. “You’ve already met my shadow. My name is Dr. Vale.”Jayden froze. “Luna’s brother.”“Her creator,” Dr. Vale corrected. “And
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Chapter: Chapter 6. The Red Hunter’s TruthThe arena pulsed with crimson light, the sound of thunder echoing like a heartbeat. Jayden’s sword trembled in his hand. His voice cracked. “Luna?”The Red Hunter tilted her head, removing her mask fully. The face underneath was both familiar and wrong.Her eyes glowed red instead of violet, her smile carved too perfectly. “Don’t look at me like that,” she said coldly. “You wanted to find me, didn’t you? Well, here I am.”Jayden took a slow step forward. “You’re not her. You can’t be.”Her expression didn’t change. “Then why does your system recognize me?”A tone chimed in his ear. [Identity Confirmed: Luna Vale, Status: Corrupted Core System.]Jayden’s breath caught. “No… no, that’s impossible.”“It’s the truth.” Her voice softened for just a second. “When the Tower collapsed, I was rewritten. My memories, my feelings… they belong to him now.”“The Game Master,” Jayden whispered.Her gaze sharpened. “He gave me purpose, to protect the Core. And to erase you.”Jayden’s sword shook. “E
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8. Chains of ShameThe sun rose cold over New York City Medical Plaza, its brilliance cruel on the polished white marble. At the center stood the Syndicate stage, draped in banners proclaiming: “Integrity Preserves Divinity.”A voice echoed through the speakers: “Bring forward the condemned.”Chains rattled. Dr. Joseph Briggs emerged, escorted by two guards. His once-white healer’s coat hung in shreds; gray prison robes clung to him like mourning cloth.His eyes, still clear beneath the exhaustion, met the horizon, the same skyline he had once healed, one patient at a time.The crowd roared. Some shouted curses, others prayers. News drones hovered, recording every humiliation for the evening broadcast.A child held up a flower. His mother snatched it away. From the balcony above, Franca stood behind her father, Victor Harrington, watching. Her hands trembled, nails digging into her palm until blood welled, but she said nothing. Her father’s hand rested firmly on her shoulder, a warning disguised as co
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7. Master’s VerdictThe incense smoke curled like ghosts around the edges of Bill Gates’s private study. Shelves of ancient scrolls towered to the ceiling; relics of forgotten healers glimmered faintly in the lamplight. On the table lay his ceremonial robe, gold-threaded, heavy with authority, staring back at him like judgment itself.Bill sat motionless, eyes fixed on the holo-screen looping Joseph’s tribunal footage.The moment played again.The elderly patient convulsing, the golden glow flashing from Joseph’s hands, the monitors spiking before death.He pressed pause. The screen froze on Joseph’s face, wide-eyed, horrified, still believing the world would listen.“Medicine,” Bill whispered, quoting himself from decades ago, “is the art of humility before mystery.”He smiled bitterly. “And you touched that mystery too soon, my son.”He closed his eyes. Memory flickered, Joseph as a boy, scrawny, bright-eyed, scribbling meridian diagrams in a notebook too big for his hands. “Master, why does healing h
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6. Framed for DeathThree days after the rune explosion. New York Central Hospital shimmered under thin morning light. The city looked normal, but nothing felt the same. Not to Joseph Briggs.He walked through the glass doors, pale but alert, coat buttoned, the faint gold pulse under his skin hidden by fabric. The air buzzed faintly, he could hear everything: the thump of heartbeats, the flutter of lungs, the low hum of the hospital’s machines blending with the rhythm of life itself. Too loud.He winced as a nurse passed, her pulse jittered in arrhythmia, fear mixing with fatigue. “Morning, Dr. Briggs,” another nurse said, voice brittle. Her eyes didn’t meet his.Whispers followed in his wake. “He shouldn’t even be here.”“They said he caused an explosion in the basement.”“Why didn’t they arrest him yet?”He ignored them, scanning his ID at the security gate. The light blinked red. ACCESS: PENDING INVESTIGATION.He forced a smile. “System glitch.”The guard hesitated, then waved him through. He entered
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Chapter: CHAPTER 5. The Forbidden RuneBasement Level 7, New York General HospitalThe elevator shuddered to a stop with a metallic sigh. Joseph stepped out into darkness.Only one flickering bulb lit the corridor, revealing peeling paint and a sign half-buried in dust: “ARCHIVES / RESTRICTED ACCESS.”He exhaled slowly. “So this is where they buried the truth.”A voice echoed behind him. “You shouldn’t be here.”Joseph spun. Vera Lin stood at the elevator doors, face pale. “They sealed this floor years ago. It’s off-record even for me.”He met her gaze. “Clara’s file was moved down here. You told me the Syndicate erased it.”Vera hesitated. “Then you already know what that means.”“It means they’re hiding something.”“And if you find it?”Joseph’s voice dropped to a whisper. “Then maybe I’ll finally know what’s inside me.”Their footsteps echoed through the dust-choked silence. Every door bore a golden seal burned into the metal, the serpent of the Syndicate.Joseph ran his fingers across one; the rune on his wrist pulsed
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4. Franca’s UltimatumRain tapped the windows like an impatient heartbeat. The city’s lights bled through the glass, fractured and cold.Joseph slipped through the door, soaked and exhausted. His ID badge flickered red, “Access Under Review.” The silence inside was heavier than any reprimand.On the counter sat untouched dinner, cooling beside a tablet still projecting a Syndicate broadcast. Franca wasn’t in sight.He dropped his bag, running a hand through his damp hair. “Franca?”Her voice drifted from the balcony, calm but distant. “You missed dinner again.”He stepped closer, hesitant. “Emergency case.”“Always is.” She turned, the faint glow of citylight outlining her face, composed, tired, beautiful in its restraint. “Did they suspend you?”“Not yet.”She gave a small laugh, brittle, unamused. “Then they will. They’re erasing your records already. The Syndicate doesn’t forget disobedience.”He met her eyes. “I didn’t disobey. I healed.”Franca looked at him for a long moment, then set down her tablet
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3. The Healers’ Syndicate RumorHospital Cafeteria, Mid-afternoon.The hum of conversation floated over the smell of burnt coffee and antiseptic. Doctors clustered around screens, pretending to read reports, but every few sentences drifted back to the same name. “Briggs.”Joseph sat at the edge of the room, untouched sandwich growing stale. He could feel their whispers, though he pretended not to. “Word is, the Syndicate’s noticed him,” someone muttered.“Noticed? They’re furious. Unregistered divine acupuncture? That’s a federal breach.”“They’ll audit the whole division.”Laughter, nervous and clipped. Joseph’s friend, Dr. Vera Lin, slid into the seat opposite him, voice low. “You shouldn’t be here. The moment your miracle hit the news boards, the Syndicate opened an inquiry.”He looked up, tired but steady. “If they want answers, they can ask.”“They don’t ask,” Vera said. “They investigate. Quietly. And when they do, people vanish.”Joseph leaned back, watching steam curl from his untouched cup. “Then I’ll be t
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