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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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