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Chapter 179. Operation Nullflare
The night sky over Vantress Spire did not look like a sky anymore. The stars were gone, swallowed by waves of dark data. The darkness spread slowly like ink leaking across a sheet of paper. Buildings flickered. Roads bent at strange angles. Distant towers folded in half, then rewound and straightened again as if unsure which shape they were meant to keep.Soren stood on the highest balcony of the Spire, staring at the changing world with steady eyes. He did not blink. He did not hesitate. He simply studied the patterns, fracture lines, shimmer points, collapse zones. His fingers tapped the metal railing in a thoughtful rhythm.Behind him, a group of Strategists waited in silence. “It is time,” Soren said.A tall woman stepped forward. “Operation Nullflare?”“Yes,” Soren answered. “Begin the activation sequence.”At once, the Strategists hurried to the command station inside the tower. Screens lit up, forming a glowing ring around the room. A deep hum started beneath the floor as s
Chapter 178. The Core That Whispers
The storm clouds above Zone Null swirled in impossible patterns. Lines of code flashed like lightning inside them, forming symbols that appeared for a split second before dissolving again. Rae watched them from the balcony of the outpost tower, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. The wind felt colder than usual, the air filled with static.Finn joined her at the railing. “It is getting worse,” he said quietly.Rae nodded. “The Anchor Protocol is moving faster than we expected.”He looked at her face. “You have not slept.”Rae forced a tired smile. “None of us have.” Then she glanced toward the barricaded bunker across the courtyard. “Is Riko still inside?”Finn nodded. “Yes. She has been decoding the core all night. She says it is more unstable than anything she has seen.”Rae took a slow breath. “Then we go in. It is time.”Together they walked toward the bunker entrance. Heavy metal doors hissed open as they approached, revealing a dim room lit only by floating code screens.
Chapter 177. The Black Choir’s Song
The sun barely reached the edges of the ruined forest as Lyra made her way through the silent trees. She walked alone, following the faint hum tugging at her chest. Her glowing sigils flickered with uneasy warmth, reacting to something ahead. The world felt cold, but the hum grew warmer with every step.Rae had wanted to send Finn with her. Finn insisted on going too. But Lyra knew this call was meant for her alone. Something in the energy, the rhythm, the strange music that whispered in her dreams, none of it belonged to anyone else.So she left at dawn, before anyone could stop her. Now she moved slowly, pushing aside hanging vines as she approached a clearing. Strange lights pulsed in the distance. The air vibrated with a faint chord, not loud enough to be a sound, but strong enough to be felt inside the bones.Lyra’s breath hitched. “What is this place?”Then she saw them. Dozens of figures stood in perfect formation around a shattered obelisk. Their bodies were half-human, ha
Chapter 176. Riko’s Resonance
The night after the Glitchborn attack felt too quiet. Too still. The wind did not move. Even the stars looked frozen, as if the sky itself held its breath in fear.Rae, Finn, Lyra, and Riko had taken shelter inside an abandoned data bunker carved into the side of a ravine. The place smelled of dust, old circuitry, and faint residue of forgotten code experiments.Riko sat alone by the hollowed-out console table, her visor dimmed to half-light. She picked apart tangled lines of glowing code floating in front of her. None of it made sense anymore. Everything was corrupted. Everything was unstable. Her fingers trembled.Ever since the Glitchborn attack, something had changed inside her interface. Something new. Something alive.“Riko,” Rae said softly from across the bunker. “You have been staring at that code for two hours. Come rest.”Riko did not turn around. “I cannot rest. If I stop, I will lose the signal.”Finn raised an eyebrow. “What signal?”Riko swallowed and finally looked u
Chapter 175. Glitchborn Armies
The battlefield no longer looked like part of the world. It looked like a wound carved open across the land. The ground rippled in strange waves, as if reality itself kept forgetting what shape it should have. Time stuttered, replaying moments for a heartbeat before snapping forward again.Sound echoed in loops, repeating bits of dialogue that no one had actually spoken twice. And at the center of it all stood the Glitchborn.They were not human. Not machine. Not code. They were everything at once, and nothing at all. Their bodies flickered with broken pixels.Their limbs bent at wrong angles. Their faces twisted between dozens of expressions in seconds. Some of them whispered old memories. Some laughed with voices stolen from strangers. Some simply glowed, melting into static before reassembling.Rae stared at them, her heart racing. This was not a battle she had ever imagined fighting. This was something far beyond any rule or logic the world had ever known.Finn stepped beside h
Chapter 174. Siege at Mirror Gate
The Mirror Gate shimmered like a giant silver arch carved into the fabric of the air itself. It stood at the center of a broken valley, its surface rippling like water touched by an unseen hand. At times it reflected the world around it. At other times it showed something else, places from before the Reboot, places from after, places that should not exist at all.Rae stood before the Gate with the wind tugging at her hair. Her heart beat hard in her chest. She could feel danger pressing down from all directions. The valley felt too quiet, too still, like the world was holding its breath.Finn tightened the straps on his gear. “This is a trap,” he said softly. “It feels too perfect.”Riko adjusted her interface visor, tapping through layers of code only she could see. “Nothing about this place is perfect,” she said. “Everything here is wrong. The gate is storing corrupted memories. Old versions of the world. Abandoned timelines. It is all swirling right behind the surface.”Lyra ste
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