Chapter 2: The Taste of NothingThe wind shifted.The desert answered.A muffled grunt rose from beneath the sand—low, hoarse, forgotten. Then the ground convulsed, and something pushed through from below.A hand. Trembling. Caked in dust.Then came a face—round, flushed, and soaked in sweat. Grit clung to his skin like scabs, black hair plastered across a broad forehead. His features were rough, messy, unapologetically human: wide nose, crooked teeth, tiny eyes blinking furiously against the glare of a cruel red sun.Ugly.Dirty.Alone.But alive.He sucked in air like it cost money, coughing sand from his lungs. Each breath rattled like a dying engine, but he didn't stop until his chest stopped spasming.Then he saw it.The Carbee.Dead. Still twitching. Bleeding into the sand.The boy froze—eyes wide, lips cracking into a slow, feverish grin. Hunger burned in them like madness. The kind of hunger that didn't care about dignity. The kind that ate it.“Mine…” he rasped, voice dry eno

Chapter 4: Something’s ChangingSuper Guardian by LittleLYTAZack woke up on his back, flat against the hot sand, eyes staring up at the cloudy sky.At first, he didn’t even move.His heart was pounding, but his body felt weird—lighter, steady. The last thing he remembered was that glowing blue orb... and the system screaming about a hack.> "Was that... real?"He sat up slowly. His arms didn’t ache. His legs weren’t stiff. For someone who had just eaten raw monster meat and passed out cold in the middle of nowhere, he actually felt... okay.Too okay.Then, the system message popped up in front of his eyes.> [System Hack: SUCCESSFUL][Mod Installation in Progress… 40% Complete][60% Remaining… Please Stand By]Zack blinked, squinting at the words like they were part of a dream.> “What the hell is this?”He rubbed his face, then laughed under his breath. Not because it was funny, but because it felt so stupidly impossible.> “Is this seriously like one of those games? Like that block

Chapter 6: Home, LockedSuper Guardian by LittleLYTASuper Guardian by LittleLYTAThe teleportation station was loud, packed with people.Dozens stood in line, waiting for their turn to use the public portals. Not everyone had their own at home. Most people came here—one of twenty public stations on Planet Hombre—to travel back and forth from the Holy Domains.Zack moved through the crowd without thinking.He was used to this.He was born on Hombre. Raised here. He had never left the planet—not once. Even though it was the interstellar age, and humans now lived on all kinds of planets, Hombre was the only world he knew.Just like how some people never fly to other countries, Zack had never been offworld. And he didn’t feel weird about it.It was just… life.He made his way to the hover train platform and stepped onto the waiting train. It floated a few inches above the tracks, humming gently. He found a seat by the window and sat down.As the city moved past outside, Zack leaned back,

Chapter 8: Visual NoiseThe door had barely stopped shaking when silence dropped like a curtain.Zack didn’t move. Not right away. The landlord’s voice still echoed in the corners of the cramped room, venom laced with final warnings. But it wasn't the shouting that lingered—it was the quiet that came after. That heavy, suffocating quiet. The kind you could drown in.He turned his head slowly, eyes drifting to the grimy ceiling. A crack ran through it like a scar. He didn’t even know how long it had been there. Maybe it always was. Maybe he was just too damn tired to notice until now.He sighed, dragging a hand over his face.Is she still out there?His thoughts wandered to his sister. She had vanished into the 2nd Layer of the Holy Domains three days ago. No word. No call. Just gone.The 2nd Layer wasn’t a place you walked into casually. It was wild, brutal, and crawling with high-tier spirit beasts that could rip you apart just for breathing wrong. And yet, she’d gone anyway. She alw

Chapter 10By LittleLYTA— Super Guardian —By the time Zack stumbled to the school gates, he felt like his lungs were staging a violent protest. His heart was a steel drum, pounding hard enough to rattle his ribs. Sweat clung to his shirt like glue, darkening the already-faded fabric, and his breath came in short, ragged bursts that made his whole chest ache.The security sensors blinked red, scanned his ID implant... then turned green with a mechanical click. He staggered through the open gates just as they began to slide shut behind him.Too late.He tilted his head toward the sky, eyes half-closed against the glare of the rising sun, and groaned.Ten minutes late.At a school like this, that was enough to get you detention, a lecture, or worse — another humiliating call to his sister.But before he could curse his luck, something inside his head dinged.[Daily Quest Progress Updated][3km Run — Completed ✅][Remaining Tasks: 100 Pushups | 100 Situps][Time Remaining: 15 Hours, 37