The darkness shattered.It broke into millions of black fragments that slowly faded, swept away by the cold wind of reality. Jhonatan's consciousness snapped back. His eyes flew open, but what he saw was no longer the void of Sector 0. It was no longer the embrace of Emma's body.He was back in the rotten real world.Jhonatan's breath was ragged. Something from the Void was still left under his skin. It was cold, empty, and threatening. The shadow of Sienna's betrayal still felt like a dagger being twisted in his back. Jhonatan could feel it, as if a pair of eyes from that darkness were constantly watching him, even here, in the ruins of his world.BRRRTTT. COUGH.The sound of a sputtering helicopter engine broke the silence above his base. Jhonatan stood on the thirtieth-floor balcony, looking at the sky that was the color of cigarette ash. There, a military helicopter with a faded silver wing logo struggled against gravity. Black smoke billowed thickly from its tail, while its blade

His voice was entirely swallowed by a deafening frequency explosion. Jhonatan had braced himself for the burning agony of a physical disintegration, but the red laser fired by Valerius’s flagship wasn't made of heat or plasma. It was pure, highly concentrated temporal data. The moment the light touched his skin, the world didn't explode—it completely shattered. Time itself ground to a violent halt. The dust particles floating in the air froze. The terrifying roar of the monsters was silenced. Even the beating of Jhonatan’s own heart stopped mid-rhythm.And then, his consciousness was violently hurled into an abyssal void that felt like falling through thousands of years in mere seconds.GASP!Jhonatan's eyes flew open, his lungs greedily sucking in oxygen that felt razor-sharp. He wasn't standing in the ruined parking lot of the military base anymore. His vision slowly focused, revealing the sprawling, desolate skyline of a ruined city. He was sitting on the edge of a helipad atop the

The grand, ruined lobby of the Sky-High tower fell into a deathly, suffocating silence. The only sound echoing across the shattered marble floor was the agonizing, rhythmic whimpers of the paralyzed councilman. Jhonatan stood at the epicenter of the destruction, his chest heaving slowly as the final digital remnants of Silas—the Federation’s elite assassin—dissolved completely into his pale skin.He flexed his right hand. The sheer volume of power coursing through his biological vessel was undeniably godlike. He felt as though he could tear the tectonic plates of the earth apart with a mere thought. Yet, accompanying this boundless strength was a strange, chilling numbness that gnawed at the edges of his consciousness.Jhonatan looked down at his forearms. The glowing golden veins—the physical manifestation of the Alpha System's 'Rooting' process—were no longer a subtle glow on his wrists. The thick, luminous lines were pulsing rhythmically, advancing aggressively past his elbows. They

"I don't care about the risks!" Jhonatan roared, his voice echoing with desperate defiance through the colossal, bone-littered cavern. "Give me full power! Burn this entire nest down to ash!"[Acknowledged. Alpha Domain: Underworld Mode initiated...] [Warning: Judas Virus is actively corrupting energy output. Alpha manifestation may be unstable and violently erratic...]The system's warning was an understatement.The moment the command was executed, the purple light that exploded from Jhonatan’s body was not the clean, authoritative aura of a king. It was a sickly, corrupted violet, flickering violently like a dying neon sign and interwoven with jagged streaks of toxic green static from Reymond's virus. The corrupted Alpha energy illuminated the cavern not with power, but with an aura of pure, agonizing chaos. The hundreds of human-sized worms surrounding him hissed in unison, recoiling not from the power, but from the sheer instability of the radiation. However, they did not retreat

"What in the name of the eternal Federation is this?!" Valerius screamed, his voice cracking with pure disbelief. His arrogant, god-like facade had completely shattered, replaced by a look of utter confusion. "How can a mere human corpse, a piece of biological trash, block the divine energy of a Federation Light Spear?!"Golden flames furiously licked at Colonel Bram’s corrupted flesh, burning his skin down to the synthetic black bones that now formed his augmented skeleton. Yet, the newly forged Systemic Slave didn't even flinch. His hollow, purple-glowing eyes stared blankly at the Inquisitor. Slowly, with a horrifying grinding sound of metal on metal, Bram tightened his grip, completely halting the momentum of the divine weapon.From behind the towering, mutated corpse, Jhonatan stepped out, casually brushing a nonexistent speck of dust off his shoulder. A dark, sadistic smirk played on his lips as his abyssal sword materialized in his hand, crackling with a deadly, unstable mix of