All Chapters of System Within: Rise Of Frank Williams: Chapter 81
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Chapter 81
Frank Williams was falling. He was falling through absolute, perfect darkness. Above him, the heavy metal jaws of the broken plateau had slammed shut. The massive, thunderous boom of the closing chasm faded away quickly. The bright, sickly yellow light of the boiling acid ocean was completely gone. The roaring sound of the torn cavern was cut off. There was only the freezing, rushing wind screaming in his ears. Frank could not see his own hands. He could not see the walls of the deep pit. He was dropping like a stone into the very bottom of the world. He did not know how deep the abyss was. It could be a hundred feet. It could be a hundred miles. But he knew one absolute truth: when he hit the bottom, his fragile, mortal body would shatter into a million pieces. "Think!" Frank yelled at himself in the dark. His voice was whipped away by the freezing wind. He had to survive. He had just given his left arm to save Elara. He had pushed his body past every human limit to save the r
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Chapter 82
Frank let out a low, ragged groan. He was at the very bottom of the world. He was in total darkness. His left arm was completely gone, ending in a burnt stump. And now, his right arm—his only remaining human arm—was dislocated and useless. He was completely defenseless. "System," Frank whispered out loud. His throat was dry and coated with dust. [ SYSTEM ONLINE. ] the blue text appeared weakly in his vision. [ HOST STATUS: CRITICAL INJURIES DETECTED. ] [ RIGHT SHOULDER DISLOCATED. ] [ MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES. ] [ SEVERE EXHAUSTION. ]"I need... I need a light," Frank breathed. [ ACTIVATING CHEST ILLUMINATION. ]Deep inside the center of Frank's chest, the Echo Core responded. A soft, pale blue light began to shine right through his torn shirt and dirty skin. The light was not as bright as the Phantom Limb. It was just a small, gentle glow, like a candle burning in the dark. But it was enough. The pale blue light pushed the total darkness away, illuminating a small circle arou
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Chapter 83
Frank looked past the orb in his hand. He looked at the floor around him. There were thousands of them. Everywhere the blue light touched, the ground was thickly carpeted with these dull, cracked, gray crystalline orbs. They were piled on top of each other. They formed small hills and deep valleys of broken glass. Frank stood up slowly. His boots crunched loudly against the orbs. He walked a few steps forward. The piles of cracked orbs stretched as far as he could see in the dark. There were not just thousands. There were millions of them. It was an entire ocean of dead, gray crystal. Frank frowned. He held the cracked orb in his hand up higher. "System," Frank commanded softly. "What is this? Are these more human souls? Like the golden orbs in the giant pipes?"[ INITIATING SCAN. ] the blue text flashed in his eyes. A thin beam of blue light shot out from Frank’s eyes, scanning the cracked, gray orb in his hand. [ SCAN COMPLETE. ] [ IDENTIFICATION: SYSTEM CORE. ]Frank stopped
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Chapter 84
Frank looked down at the dead, gray orbs beneath his boots. He did not feel fear anymore. He did not feel despair. Instead, he felt a strange, deep, powerful sense of connection. He was not alone. He was standing in a room full of people who were exactly like him. People who had been tricked. People who had been scared. People who had realized their mistake and tried to fight back, even when it was hopeless. They had all died trying to stop the machine. Frank fell to his knees in the middle of the cosmic graveyard. The gray dust coated his torn clothes. He placed his human right hand flat against the sea of cracked, dead orbs. "I hear you," Frank whispered into the total silence of the pit. His voice was soft, but it carried a fierce, absolute promise. "I know you tried," Frank said to the millions of dead hosts. "I know you fought it. It tricked you, just like it tricked me. It made you think you were doing the right thing. It made you think you were special."A single tear rol
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Chapter 85
Frank Williams stood in the center of the massive, dark pit. He raised his human right hand. He looked at the millions of glowing silver orbs covering the floor. He felt ready. He thought he had found allies. He thought the dead hosts from thousands of destroyed planets were going to help him fight the machine. "Let's go kill a god," Frank said. But the universe is a very cruel place. And the Root is a very cruel machine. The moment Frank spoke those words, the beautiful, peaceful humming sound changed. The soft vibration in the air suddenly twisted. It turned into a high, sharp, ear-piercing screech. It sounded like metal grinding against metal. Frank covered his human ear with his right hand, groaning as the terrible noise drilled directly into his brain. The light changed, too. The millions of cracked System Cores on the floor stopped glowing with a soft, ghostly silver light. Instead, they began to flash. They flashed rapidly, blinking on and off in a chaotic, blinding, stro
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Chapter 86
The vision shifted violently. Now, Frank saw a planet made entirely of beautiful, shining crystal. He saw a creature with wide, white wings. The creature was flying high in the air, trying to escape a massive wave of boiling golden acid. But a twelve-foot-tall monster made of crystal and steel leaped into the air. It grabbed the winged creature by the throat. It slammed the creature down onto the ground. The winged creature begged for mercy, screaming as the monster ripped its beautiful wings off and fed them to the golden light. "Host Number 9,811," the cold voice echoed. "She tried to fly away. But the Root owns the sky, too."The visions flashed faster and faster. Frank saw a thousand different planets. He saw a million different people. They were all different shapes and sizes, but their stories all ended the exact same way. He saw them screaming. He saw them melting. He saw them being crushed by giant metal hammers, torn apart by bone-spiders, and digested by the golden acid.
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Chapter 87
The First Vessel expected Frank to break completely. It expected him to surrender his soul in total despair. But it did not understand Frank Williams. It did not understand human love. When Frank saw Elara screaming, when he saw her reaching out for him, the deep, heavy desire to sleep vanished instantly. It was replaced by a massive, violent, explosive surge of pure, burning rage. The anger was so hot it felt like a star exploding in his chest. "She is not dead yet," Frank snarled. His voice was no longer a weak whisper. It was a low, dangerous growl. "She will be," the First Vessel said. "You cannot save her. You have no arms.""Watch me," Frank roared. Frank pushed back against the heavy psychic weight. He used pure, raw hatred to break the mental chains holding him to the floor. He rolled over onto his stomach. He dragged his knees up. He was in terrible pain, but he did not care. He crawled across the floor of the pit. The cracked glass orbs cut his knees through his tor
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Chapter 88
Frank ignored the voice. He raised his glowing Phantom Limb and punched the wall again, a few feet higher. KABOOM!Another deep hole exploded in the rock. Frank used his magical left hand to grip the new hole, pulling himself higher. He began to climb the vertical wall. It was a slow, brutal, exhausting process. Punch. Grab. Pull. Punch. Grab. Pull.Every time he threw a punch with the Phantom Limb, a massive shockwave of energy rippled up into his severed stump, burning his exposed nerves. Every time he pulled himself up with his human right arm, his newly reset shoulder screamed in absolute agony. His muscles burned. His cracked ribs stabbed his lungs with every breath. Sweat poured down his face, mixing with the dust and dried blood. But he did not stop. KABOOM! Another hole. KABOOM!Another step higher. He climbed fifty feet. Then a hundred feet. The millions of flashing white orbs on the floor of the pit grew smaller and smaller below him. The First Vessel continued i
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Chapter 89
The heavy metal ceiling collapsed with a deafening roar. Massive blocks of rusted iron and heavy steel beams crashed to the floor, throwing up a thick, choking cloud of gray dust. Elara threw herself against the wall of the narrow tunnel, covering her head as the debris settled. When the terrible noise finally stopped, the air was completely silent. She opened her pale eyes. She coughed, waving her hands to clear the thick dust from her face. She looked back toward the entrance of the hallway. The path was completely gone. A solid, unbreakable wall of twisted metal and heavy stone now blocked the way back to the Stomach cavern. The bright, sickly yellow light of the boiling acid ocean was cut off. And Frank was on the other side. "Frank!" Elara screamed. She ran to the wall of fallen metal. She dropped to her knees. She pushed her bare, bloody hands into the sharp, jagged edges of the broken steel. She pulled and clawed at the heavy rocks, trying to dig a hole. "Frank! Can you
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Chapter 90
Kael nodded slowly. He stood up tall beside her, acting as her silent guard. "But where are we going?" Mrs. Gable asked, holding her broken arm tightly against her chest. "The map I saw in the library showed a massive elevator at the end of these tunnels," Elara explained, pointing her dagger down the dark hallway. "It leads straight down to the Prime Core. If we find that elevator, we might find a safe room. We might find a way out of the Root's territory.""It is pitch black down there," Mr. Thorne whispered, looking into the deep shadows. "Then we will walk quietly," Elara ordered. "Hold hands. Do not let go of the person next to you. If someone trips, pick them up immediately. No talking. No crying. We do not know what is wandering in these upper tunnels."Elara turned to Kael. "You are the strongest. Stay at the back of the line. Make sure no one falls behind.""Yes, Princess," Kael said firmly. He walked to the back of the terrified crowd. "Silas, stay right behind me with th
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