2025-08-11 02:09:27The bus finally pulled over after arriving at its destination. Everett got off the bus and glanced around the area he now found himself in.
"I already asked Alice to meet me here, so she'll be here any minute," Everett mused as he walked towards a nearby wall and stood to wait.
Alice was Everett's colleague at work, and while he was on the bus, he managed to convince her to meet him here. Everett did well to leave out some details, afraid of how she might react.
Everett leaned his back on the wall and took out his phone to play some games until she arrived. The anticipation inside him was killing him, and all he needed now was a distraction.
While Everett stood there playing his game, the sound of a vehicle driving towards him caught his attention. He turned off his phone and shifted his gaze towards the direction of the sound.
"She's here already. That's quick," Everett muttered to himself as he saw a car driving towards him. He couldn't see what car it was exactly since the lights were blinding.
"That doesn't look like Alice's boyfriend's car," Everett mumbled as the car pulled over in front of him. It was an expensive black limousine.
The doors of the limousine opened, and three men dressed in black suits got out of the car and began to walk towards Everett. Everett panicked as the men walked towards him with fierce looks on their faces, and he had no choice but to take a few steps backwards.
"Are you Mr. Everett Lang?" One of the men questioned in a deep voice.
"Yeah. Who are you guys?" Everett questioned in a shaky voice, fear written all over his face.
"We were sent by DDD to come get you. Please, follow us," the man informed.
It was at that moment Everett felt relieved. He had thought they were kidnappers or armed robbers, so he panicked. But since they were sent by DDD, he knew he was safe.
"So, he sent a private expensive car to come get me? Wow," Everett blurted out in disbelief as he began to walk towards the limousine. "Um, my friend. We planned on going together. She will be here any moment now," Everett halted his steps and informed.
"There is no time to waste, Everett. Let's go," the man informed, and Everett nodded. Besides, he could always call her to tell her not to bother anymore.
Everett got into the luxurious car, and the door was shut. Two of the men also got in and sat beside him, while one went to the driver's seat.
The engine started, and the car drove off.
While sitting inside the car, Everett pulled out his phone and began to dial Alice's number to inform her about what happened and also save her the stress of coming back to the store.
"No signal in here," Everett lamented as the call failed to connect. He tried dialing the number again, but it still failed, so he just gave up and placed his phone back in his pocket and leaned back in his seat.
The limousine drove for several hours, and even Everett was starting to feel slightly uncomfortable. The men seated with him hadn't said a single word ever since they began the journey, and that alone creeped him out.
After a few more hours of driving, the car finally stopped moving. The door was opened, and Everett got out of the car and glanced around the place.
Everett's mouth widened in amazement as he examined the headquarters of the Blood Battlefield.
It was a tall skyscraper with several billboards displaying gameplay and advertisements of the Blood Battlefield game. Several expensive cars were parked outside, and workers could be seen walking here and there.
"This way," the deep voice of the man snapped Everett out of his daydream as he began to walk forward, and Everett followed him closely behind. He led Everett to an elevator, and they both got in as it began to take them up to the top floor.
In a few minutes' time, the elevator chimed, and the doors slid open. The man in the black suit and Everett stepped out of the elevator and began to walk towards an office stationed meters away.
Arriving in front of the office, the man knocked on the door three times before speaking. "Go inside, he is expecting you."
"Shouldn't we wait for his response after knocking?" Everett inquired nervously while straightening his salesman's uniform.
"Go inside, he is expecting you," the man repeated. Everett nodded as he pushed the door open and walked into the neatly arranged office.
The office was quite vast and spacious, with several modern designs. A flat-screen TV was mounted on the wall, and the wall behind it was made of glass, offering a nice view of the city.
Everett noticed a man in his early thirties working on his computer. He had short black hair, was clad in a white suit, and wore glasses.
"Good evening, sir. It's me, Everett Lang," Everett introduced respectfully.
The man paused in what he was doing and shifted his gaze towards Everett.
"You must be Everett Lang. Please, have a seat. I have been expecting you," Mr. Daniel D. David spoke with a smile, pointing towards an empty seat in front of him.
Everett nodded as he sat down on the chair and straightened his shirt.
"Wow, to be honest, I was expecting someone much older," Mr. Daniel chuckled slightly. "Don't get me wrong, though. It feels good knowing we have young talented individuals in our community who are capable of crafting a masterpiece," he added.
"Yes, sir. I have always studied programming right from when I was a baby, and I have always been an avid gamer. I have been playing your game for seven years now, and you inspired me to create mine," Everett remarked with a slight bow.
"That's nice. It feels good knowing I actually inspired someone with my own game," Mr. Daniel smiled. "About what I told you in the review sections earlier concerning the collaboration. Are you interested?"
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The world faded away like a television turning off. Everett did not feel any pain. He did not feel the cold rain. He did not feel the hard, wet concrete of the street. He was floating in a silent, endless sea of gray mist. He looked down. Beneath his feet, he could see the real world. It looked like he was standing on a giant floor made of thick, clear glass. Through the glass, he saw Lyra. She was kneeling in the street, crying with her hands covering her face. He saw Silas standing next to her, looking completely lost. He saw Commander Alice, staring up at the empty sky in shock. "I am here," Everett whispered. He hit his fists against the invisible glass floor. "Lyra! Silas! Look up!"But his voice made no sound. His fists did not make a thud. He was a ghost. The System had deleted his physical body. The world had forgotten him. He was completely trapped in the empty space between the digital code and the real universe. Everett dropped to his knees on the invisible glass. He pr
Chapter 632
A towering inferno of bright orange and blue fire filled the entire tunnel. The heat was incredible. The shockwave blew Silas and Alice back up the stairs, throwing them onto the street above. Down in the tunnel, Everett stood right in the middle of the explosion. But the fire did not burn him. The flames passed completely through his ghostly body. He felt a slight, warm tingling sensation, but nothing more. The Chrono Wraiths were not so lucky. The monsters were designed to fight magic. They were designed to delete code. They were not designed to be covered in old-world jet fuel and shot with a heavy plasma cannon. The raw, physical fire burned their static robes. It melted their smooth black glass faces. The three ten-foot-tall monsters shrieked in absolute, terrible agony. Their grinding, metallic voices screeched until they broke. The three Wraiths exploded into millions of useless, burned black pixels. The pixels turned to ash and washed away in the burning oil. The anti-
Chapter 631
Everett thought about Alice. He thought about the terrible scar across her face. He thought about how he had built the goblin that hurt her. A fresh, thick cloud of red mist poured out of his ghostly chest. Above him, the ground violently shook. A scythe of frozen time stabbed straight down through the solid concrete ceiling of the sewer. The glowing blade missed Everett’s shoulder by two inches. The freezing magic turned the dirty sewer water below him into solid blue ice. Everett scrambled forward, gliding faster down the tunnel. "Stop thinking," Everett whispered to himself. But his voice made no sound. "Just stop thinking."He floated through another wall, leaving the sewer and entering an abandoned subway station. He hid inside an old, rusted train car. He pressed his transparent back against the metal wall of the train. He closed his eyes. He took slow, deep, fake breaths. He tried to empty his mind. He focused on the color black. He focused on nothingness. Slowly, the dar
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A new, terrible red System box appeared above the Wraiths. [PHYSICAL TRACKING FAILED.][INITIATING EMOTIONAL TRACKING PROTOCOL.][SCENTING FOR UNRESOLVED DATA: REGRET.]The Wraiths began to sniff the air. They did not smell blood. They did not smell sweat. They were smelling for emotions. Everett floated a few inches above the broken marble floor. He watched the Wraiths. Suddenly, Everett felt a heavy, dark ache in his chest. It was his guilt. He felt guilty for failing to save Alice when she was a little girl. He felt guilty for letting Sarah die. He felt guilty for bringing danger to Lyra and Silas. He felt the heavy, crushing regret of being the Original Creator who built this terrible world. As Everett felt the guilt, a thick, dark red mist began to pour out of his ghostly chest. The red mist floated through the air, drifting directly toward the Chrono Wraiths. The lead Wraith turned its black glass face straight toward Everett. "REGRET DETECTED," the grinding, mechanical v
Chapter 629
The sky above Apex City was torn wide open. A massive, jagged hole of glowing white light hung in the dark clouds. Through the hole, the System Core pulsed with deep, raw energy. Standing on the very edge of that hole, high in the sky, was the Pilgrim. Down in the ruined plaza, Everett took a step forward. "I am coming up," Everett whispered. His green eyes burned with determination. He gripped the heavy leather handle of the Null-Edge, his giant black greatsword. He prepared to use all his remaining strength to jump toward the sky. He was ready to finish the fight. But as Everett took his second step, something felt wrong. His heavy black boot did not hit the solid marble floor. It passed straight through the stone. Everett stumbled. He looked down. His foot was buried inside the solid marble, but there was no hole. The stone was perfectly unbroken. "What?" Everett gasped. He tried to lift his heavy black sword. But his fingers lost their grip. The sword slipped out of his pale
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Everett had given them the truth. He had nothing left to give. He closed his eyes. He let go of the blade. "No!" Silas screamed from the floor. "Everett!" Lyra sobbed. The Wraith raised the scythe for the final, killing blow. But suddenly, the massive, invisible Suppression Field holding the millions of people on the ground flickered. The field cracked. It cracked because the System runs on belief. A few minutes ago, the people had been terrified of Everett. Their fear had made the System strong. But now, a million people were weeping for him. A million people loved him with a fierce, burning, unbreakable passion. They did not see a virus. They saw their brother. They saw their friend. They saw the best part of humanity hanging in the air. Their combined, absolute, pure love created a massive surge of positive System energy. The suppression field shattered like cheap glass. Everyone in the plaza was instantly freed. They could move again. Silas jumped to his feet. He grabbe
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