The corpse remained motionless.Axel and the hybrid girl floated in the darkness beyond reality, staring at the enormous remains of the World Administrator. The being was so large that even standing near its shoulder felt like standing beside a continent. Ancient fractures covered its body. Entire pieces of reality drifted around it like broken satellites trapped in its gravity.Neither of them spoke immediately.The sight alone was difficult to process.This was something that had once governed worlds.Entire realities.And now it was dead.Or at least that was what Axel believed.Then he felt it.A pulse.Small.Weak.But real.The energy spread through the void like a distant heartbeat.The hybrid girl noticed it too.Her eyes widened slightly."You felt that?"Axel nodded.The pulse came again.This time stronger.The massive corpse remained motionless, yet ancient energy began moving beneath its surface. Faint streams of silver light appeared across its shattered body, illuminati

The encounter with the Null Hunter changed everything.For the first time since escaping the System, Axel had met an enemy capable of damaging his contradiction form directly. The realization remained in the back of his mind as he and the hybrid girl continued traveling through the Graveyard of Dead Worlds.Neither of them spoke much during the following days.The void felt different now.Before, it had seemed like a place of ruins and forgotten histories.Now it felt inhabited.Observed.The existence of the Null Hunters proved that powerful forces were still active beyond the systems.Someone was watching.Someone was keeping records.And someone had already classified Axel as a threat worth eliminating.The thought lingered as they drifted between shattered worlds.Eventually they arrived at a fragmented reality unlike any they had encountered before.The world appeared broken, yet not destroyed.Gigantic structures stretched endlessly across floating islands suspended in darkness.

The city still hadn’t recovered from the assassination attempt.Even after several hours, the damage remained visible across the floating districts. Broken glass still hovered in places where gravity behaved inconsistently. Emergency crews moved through the lower platforms, trying to stabilize fractured structures, while conversations in the streets kept circling back to the same question.Who tried to kill the hybrid girl.And why.Axel had stopped paying attention to the noise.He stood alone near the outer edge of the City Between Worlds, where the floating structures became thinner and the void beyond them felt closer. From here, he could see fragments of destroyed realities drifting far below the settlement, slowly rotating like dead memories.The hybrid girl was supposed to be resting under guard protection, but Axel didn’t fully trust anyone in the city enough to leave her completely alone. Not after what happened.Still, even he needed distance.Too many people. Too many opini

The First Axel remained completely still inside the preservation chamber, his eyes fixed on Axel without blinking. The pale liquid surrounding his body rippled gently, even though nothing inside the archive had moved. A strange pressure settled over the room, making the air feel heavier with every passing second. The silence was different now. It no longer belonged to an abandoned vault. It belonged to someone who had finally awakened after being imprisoned for longer than anyone could imagine.Axel found himself unable to look away.The resemblance between them was impossible to ignore. Every feature was familiar, from the shape of his face to the calm expression resting beneath those cold eyes. Yet they were nothing alike. The man inside the chamber carried something Axel had never seen reflected in his own face. It was not anger alone. It was disappointment that had hardened over countless years until it became hatred.Markus slowly stepped in front of Axel."Don't get any closer

The prison doors continued opening with a slow, grinding sound that echoed across the endless void.Neither Axel nor Markus moved.They watched as the gap between the doors widened little by little, revealing only darkness beyond the entrance. No light escaped from within. No movement could be seen. The silence waiting inside felt older than the prison itself, as though time had stopped flowing long before the Systems had ever existed.The black crystal drifted forward first.Its faint glow disappeared into the darkness beyond the entrance before coming to a stop, as if it had reached the place where it truly belonged.Axel exchanged a brief glance with Markus."We've come this far," he said.Markus nodded, though the hesitation in his eyes was impossible to hide."I've spent countless cycles searching for answers," he replied quietly. "None of them ever led me here."The hybrid girl remained near the entrance.The silver mark beneath her collarbone continued glowing softly. Unlike be