All Chapters of The Word Is A Game: Rise Of The Limping King: Chapter 11
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The Price of a Digital Crown
Cosmic dust still danced through the dry air, scraping against the remnants of lightning energy that had only moments ago torn across the sky. In the middle of the scorched wasteland, Rian Arka stood motionless. His crippled leg trembled, not merely from physical exhaustion, but from the crushing weight of millions of lines of code he had just forced into his soul."Boss? You... you're still alive?" Siska's voice shattered the suffocating silence.Rian did not answer immediately. He stared at the palm of his hand. Glowing blue lines crawled beneath his skin, pulsing in rhythm with his heartbeat. Every time his heart thudded, a transparent system window flickered in the corner of his vision, displaying an endless stream of data.Synchronization: 88%. Status: Integrated Entity."Rian!" Siska ran toward him, but her steps stopped about three meters away from the man. A cold aura radiated from Rian's body, a pressure that made the hairs on the backs of the other Noob Slayer Guild members
Not the Creator, Just an Employee
The holographic screen before Siska trembled violently, radiating a searing orange glow that stabbed at her eyes. A week had passed since Rian claimed global authority, yet the echoes of that day still lingered like an open wound inside the Noob Slayer headquarters. Within the "Dead Zone," now lined with countless monitoring instruments, the air felt static and frigid, as if the laws of physics themselves were holding their breath."Can you lower the decrypter’s intensity, Anton? The frequency is starting to mess with my heartbeat," Siska asked without taking her eyes off the endless stream of scrolling code."Sorry, Sis. But the data from what’s left of the Architect is stubborn. The harder we push, the harder it fights back," replied Anton, one of their best analysts, wiping sweat from his forehead. "This isn’t normal encryption. It’s like... organic code trying to heal itself."Siska rubbed her exhausted face. The dark circles beneath her eyes were proof of countless sleepless nigh