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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Chapter 204. The Realm Protocols
The screens flickered first. Small, fragmented panels appearing across the broken consoles Everett had patched together in Realm Zero. Light glowed unevenly along the edges of the hub. Players froze where they stood, eyes drawn to the pulsing displays. A low hum ran through the floor, vibrating up into the bones.Everett stepped forward, boots clattering against the rough-hewn platform. He glanced at the gateways, all shimmering and unstable. Some blinked faintly, almost as if waiting for him.“Riko,” Everett called. His voice carried across the open hub. “Check the new data streams. Something’s changed.”Riko’s hands flew across a console. The device sparked, pulled light from the surrounding space. Rae hovered beside him, half projected, her interface thin and fractured but operational.“I’m seeing it,” Riko said, fingers twitching over the surface. “New rules embedded deep in the reboot code. These aren’t patches. They’re core functions.”Everett crouched near one of the consoles
Chapter 203. The Architect Awakens
The storm arrives without sound. No wind. No thunder. Data twists across the sky above Realm Zero like dark static, thick bands of distortion rolling in slow arcs. The gates shimmer harder than before. Their mirror surfaces ripple, then briefly show places that do not match any Realm Everett has seen.Everett feels it before anything breaks. His chest tightens. The Anchor remnants embedded in Realm Zero pulse out of rhythm. Platforms creak. Light dims along the pathways. A few gathered players stop moving and look up at the same time. “What is that?” someone asks.Everett does not answer. He steps to the center platform. The ground firms beneath his boots as if bracing with him. He spreads his senses outward, not through thought, but through contact. Through the Anchor code stitched into the hub.The signal hits him hard. Not damage. Not attack. Recognition. Something old is moving.A gate flares bright blue, then cuts to black. The image inside it changes. The repeating towers van
Chapter 202. Realm Zero: The Hub
Everett hits something that should not exist. There is no ground, no sky, no direction. He slams into resistance anyway, like hitting deep water at full speed. The force twists him sideways. His body stretches, glitches, then snaps back with a sharp crack that echoes through nothing. He gasps.Air floods his lungs, cold and thin. He tumbles, rolls, and skids across a surface that looks unfinished. Stone plates float half-locked together. Gaps glow with raw light. Gravity pulls downward, but weakly, like it is still deciding.Everett plants one hand down. It sinks into light up to his wrist. He yanks it free and scrambles backward. His hand flickers. Flesh peels into lines of code, then seals again. The skin feels numb.He pushes himself upright. The space around him wavers. Chunks of terrain drift in slow arcs. A broken staircase leads nowhere. A steel beam hangs in midair, vibrating softly. In the distance, fractured doorways float like torn reflections, each showing a different s
Chapter 201. Fracture Point
The scream does not come from Everett’s mouth. It comes from the world.Stone twists with a sharp, tearing sound. Light splits into hard angles. The floor beneath Everett’s back drops half a foot, then slams upward again, throwing him sideways. He rolls, shoulder striking metal that was not there a second ago. He skids to a stop at the edge of a platform.Below him, there is no ground. Only depth. A vast drop filled with drifting fragments of structure, data shards, and broken architecture. Pieces rotate slowly, colliding, breaking apart, then reforming into different shapes before falling again.Everett grips the edge and pulls himself back. His hand goes through the surface halfway.He jerks it back fast. His fingers flicker. Skin tears into lines of light, then snaps back into flesh. Blood beads, then vanishes as if corrected.He stares at his hand. It flickers again. “No,” he says.The nexus collapses around him. Walls shear apart into panels of code and concrete. The ceiling pee
Chapter 200. The New Dawn
A bird lands on a bent traffic light and stays there. Dust drifts down from a half-buried skyscraper and does not reset. A man steps off a cracked sidewalk and leaves a footprint in soil that used to be a loading screen. Nothing glitches. Nothing rolls back.Everett stands at the edge of a wide plain where pavement fades into tall gold grass. He lifts one boot, presses it down, then drags it slowly. The grass bends. It does not dissolve. The ground holds.Rae watches him from a few steps away. She crouches and runs her fingers through the soil. Dirt clings under her nails. She wipes her hand on her jacket and looks up. “It’s staying,” she says.Everett nods once. Behind them, Veridian City hums at low volume. No sirens. No alerts. Just engines, voices, and the slow grind of work starting again. Power lines stretch between buildings that once belonged to different worlds. Some flicker with faint gold light. Others do not.People move through the streets without markers above their h
Chapter 199. The Golden Reboot
The first crack does not look like a crack. It looks like a pause.Wind stops moving. Fire freezes mid-flicker. A falling shard of glass hangs in the air between one second and the next. Everett blinks, and the world does not blink back. Then the sound returns all at once.A deep pulse rolls through the sky, not loud, but heavy. The ground answers with a low tremor. Light bends, straightens, then bends again. The fractured horizon, once layered with endless game skies and broken worlds, begins to slide together like plates pulled by a hidden force.Rae staggers beside him. Her boots scrape against the stone, leaving a thin line of sparks. She grabs his arm, not to steady him, but because her hand will not close properly anymore.Above them, the Anchor Protocol changes shape. The vast construct of light and code, once sharp and exact, loses its clean edges. Symbols flicker out of order. Lines overlap. Errors spill across its surface in dull gold flashes. It is not collapsing. It is a
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