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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-
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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
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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
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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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"Alice," young Everett choked out, reaching a bloody hand toward her. "Run..."But the goblin kicked him in the stomach, knocking him unconscious. The last thing he saw before his eyes closed was the goblin turning back toward the crying little girl. Down in the plaza, Commander Alice fell forward, resting her head against the cold marble floor. She was sobbing. Her tough, military armor shook violently with her tears. "You didn't run away," Alice wept loudly. "You tried to save me. You broke your face for me. I am so sorry I hated you. I am so sorry."The entire crowd felt her pain. The hatred they had held for Everett completely vanished. The lies told by the Pilgrim and the nobles were washed away by the absolute, undeniable truth of the Memory Pulse. Everett was not a cruel god. He was not a greedy monster. He was the bravest, kindest, most selfless human being in the world. The final memory played across the massive white screen in the sky. Young Everett woke up. He was not
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