All Chapters of MAGE ACADEMY : LEO'S FRACTURED SYSTEM : Chapter 51
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CHAPTER 51: Leo Descends
The crystal in Leo’s palm was no longer inert data; it had become a lodestone, its pull an undeniable physical force drawing him downward. It was a sinkhole in his consciousness, and he was letting himself fall. He left Riven standing amidst the ashes of knowledge, a solitary sentinel at the gate of a past that no longer mattered. No farewells were exchanged. The time for teachers and teachings had reached its bitter end.His descent was a harrowing journey through layered realities, each step downward amplifying a profound and chilling dread. He navigated the Academy's deepest underbelly, a claustrophobic world of shrieking mana-conduits and grinding arcane machinery that pulsed like a diseased heart. Lethal security wards, designed to atomize any intruder, flared with malevolent light at his approach. A single, focused glance from his void-eye was enough, a subtle mental command editing their core `[TARGETING_PARAMETERS]` from `[INTRUDER: TERMINATE]` to `[ENTITY: NULL_STATUS]`. He d
CHAPTER 52: Freedom Through Annihilation
The consciousness came back to Leo not in the form of some soft dawn, but in the form of a sequence of shocking, out of place perceptions that coalesced themselves into a reality with which he was unfamiliar. It was a throbbing, aching pain, which ran through his whole being, a deep-rooted weariness, but it was not a weariness which cried out To sleep, but rather a weariness like his soul being spread like a long piece of thread over a vast mule and woven back together, in a hit-and-miss fashion. The second was smell--an overwhelming jumble of damp earth and the tang of unwashed bodies and the acrid odor of ozone and rusted machine. It was almost the opposite of the dry, incensed atmosphere of the Academy or the primordial, electric buzz of the Root Terminal. This was a desperate and rotten place.He lay on a pallet of rough and scratchy blankets, and was snuggled into a niche of what seemed to be a great, natural cavern, the roughly-hewn sides thereof artificially swelled and strengt