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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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
Chapter 628
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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