The sky above Jakarta was no longer blue. It was no longer even storm-gray. A new sky had been forged from thousands of tons of cold steel that completely blotted out the sunlight. The Harvester Fleet had arrived on a scale no one had ever imagined, not even Rian Arka himself. Millions of red lights glowed from the ventilation ports of the enemy motherships, spewing thousands of cleansing pods onto Earth as though the planet were being showered with embers from a digital hell."Rian! Sector Seven in Southeast Asia can't hold back the third wave anymore!" Kenzo shouted through the neural link transmission. His voice cracked beneath the roar of artillery fire and exploding magic colliding across the battlefield. "If you don't send system energy support immediately, this entire front line is going to turn to ash!"Rian stood atop a command tower floating three thousand meters above the ground. His body no longer touched the earth naturally. He hovered in the middle of a web of blue energ

The evacuation ship docked with a metallic boom that echoed through every chamber of the space station. The silence that greeted them felt heavy, as if the air inside the station had been frozen for thousands of years. Rian stepped onto the cold metal floor, his limp producing a rhythmic clicking sound that broke the stillness. Behind him, Siska followed hesitantly, her fingers dancing across the dimly glowing screen of her tablet."This structure isn't natural, Rian," Siska whispered as she studied the corridor walls covered in intricate geometric patterns. "It's an integration of highly advanced organic and mechanical technology. More sophisticated than anything we've ever discovered on Earth."Rian nodded slowly. He could feel an incredibly subtle pulse of energy beneath his feet, as though the station itself was breathing."Stay alert. We don't know whether this station is truly abandoned or just asleep."They moved through long corridors coated in star dust. At every turn stood s

The Representative of Lumina whispered, "They've surrounded us." Her voice trembled like ripples on water beneath a fierce wind. The ocean-blue light enveloping her body had grown pale, replaced by unstable flashes of panicked silver. "And this time... there will be nowhere left to hide."Rian Arka gripped his crippled left knee. Beneath the protective wrapping, the golden glow pulsed wildly in rhythm with his pounding heartbeat. The familiar pain began creeping up his spine, a cold stab from Disability Compensation as it struggled to balance the foreign energy surging through his body. He knew the System's implanted automatic transmission beacon had betrayed them. The golden evolution he had once taken pride in had become a marker, allowing the Harvester fleet to track them through Dimension Zero."Siska! Do you hear me?" Rian shouted into the communicator on his wrist. His voice was hoarse, competing against the high-pitched hum that was beginning to deafen everyone inside the cryst