2025-08-11 02:16:25"That's impossible!" Mr. Daniel exclaimed as he shifted his gaze back to the gruesome scene happening downstairs. His expression wasn't the one Everett was expecting after he had just told him something that sounded crazy.
The expression on Mr. Daniel's face was one of shock and disappointment. It was almost as if he was expecting this, just not expecting it to be this way.
"No, the code was supposed to make my game dominate yours and then, with my game dominating yours, it would have enough power to clash with reality and make the Blood Battlefield into the new reality. But somehow, your code was able to dominate mine, and now your game, The Aero Game, is a reality!" Mr. Daniel grabbed his head, with buckets of sweat trickling down his face, and his white suit was now drenched in sweat.
A puzzled expression appeared on Everett's face after hearing Mr. Daniel's words. It was almost like he was talking gibberish.
"What do you mean? I don't understand!" Everett questioned.
"There's no time to explain! All you need to know is that the former world you once knew is now gone! The whole world now lives under the rule of the game you created! No more governments, no more laws, just the laws of the game!" Mr. Daniel voiced out as he was currently panicking.
"Sir, please, I am not following!" Everett still couldn't understand. The commotion and massacre going on downstairs prevented him from understanding and kept distracting him.
"The code I made you input into my computer was a project I have been working on for twenty years now. A project that would change the whole world. A project that would make my game a reality! But somehow I failed, and now your survival game has merged with the real world!" Mr. Daniel explained.
Everett remained mute. His heart racing and sweat trickling down his face as he shifted his gaze to the commotion downstairs.
"Shit. This is exactly how it is in the game. The level one is about the player going to a headquarters to strike a deal with a man named." Everett paused in his words as he shifted his gaze towards Mr. Daniel. "The man was named Daniel. I named him after you since you were the one who inspired me." Everett's eyes widened in shock.
"Exactly. What's happening now is exactly what happened in level one of the game. You are the main character, and you came to the headquarters to strike a deal with me, just like how you came here tonight to discuss business. Since that's the case, then we will surely make it out of here alive without getting eaten by those lizards. You are the creator, so you should know the lizards' weakness or better still know a safe exit." Mr. Daniel bellowed as he wiped the beads of sweat off his face with his sleeves.
"This is bad." Everett commented with a tensed look on his face. "I only focused on the main character when creating the game. Meaning I only programmed it in the game that the main character escapes through a hidden tunnel, while everyone else in the headquarters got eaten by the lizards." Everett explained.
"What? Why would you do that?" Mr. Daniel exclaimed in shock.
"I don't know. I didn't really pay attention to extras since they were only added to make the game more realistic." Everett responded.
"So, you are saying everyone here, including me, would die?" Mr. Daniel questioned, and Everett remained silent as he was lost in thought.
While designing the game, he made three solutions for the main character to pass the first level. The first solution was for him to kill Mr. Daniel and unlock an instant weapon and also get a portable portal that would teleport him out of the headquarters.
But Everett never used that option while playing since he respected Mr. Daniel even if he was a character in a game.
The second solution was to fight his way out of there, meaning he would have to fight with all he had against the lizards to find an exit.
That was mostly how Everett loved completing this level since he enjoyed fighting the lizards.
But now that it's all real and he couldn't just respawn whenever he dies, he knew fighting them would be suicide.
Which leaves him with the last solution, and that was to find a secret tunnel. Everett never bothered to find this tunnel since crawling through a tunnel would be so boring to play.
And whenever he gets to the end of the tunnel, there is always a lizard waiting for him.
"There might be a way to save you. I didn't focus on the extra characters while creating the game, so I didn't program them to live past this level. But because I didn't program it doesn't mean I can't let them survive. I can always fight the whole lizard's way before they kill anyone, and by doing so, everyone would survive. But since this is not a game but the real world, I can't start fighting those lizards. I can also take them along the escape route if I please, and in doing so, they survive."
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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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