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Chapter 504
The walk back into the city was agonizing. Every single step was a reminder of the new rules of the world. Before the System update, Silas could carry his heavy sniper rifle and a massive backpack full of explosives for days without getting tired. The System had provided a hidden 'Stamina Bar' that refilled automatically. Now, Silas was panting heavily. "My back is killing me," Silas groaned. He stopped walking and dropped his heavy backpack onto the broken concrete street. He put his hands on his knees, gasping for air. Sweat dripped from his nose. "Silas, are you okay?" Lyra asked, rushing over to him. "I can't carry it," Silas whispered in shock. He looked at the heavy backpack. "It weighs a hundred pounds. My muscles are literally burning. My stamina bar is not coming back. The magic energy is completely gone.""It is the Stat Squish," Rae’s voice suddenly echoed. Rae walked out from behind a ruined building. She was carrying her laptop, but she looked exhausted. The thick b
Chapter 503
The sun slowly rose over the quiet, red dirt of the desert. For the first time in a thousand years, it was just a normal sun. It did not glow with golden magic. It did not pulse with deep, ancient code. It was just a giant ball of burning gas in space, casting a soft, yellow light over the broken world. The wind blew across the dry ground. It kicked up small clouds of gray dust. The air felt very different. It did not smell like ozone or burning sulfur. It smelled like plain, wet earth. The heavy, vibrating hum of the System was completely gone. The silence was absolute. Everett stood in the dirt outside the massive, broken iron gates of Apex City. He was breathing heavily. His broad, scarred chest rose and fell. The white bandages wrapped around his ribs were soaked in dark, dried blood. Every single time he took a breath, a sharp, terrible pain stabbed his side. He was no longer the Undying Martyr. He was no longer a Living God. The System had deleted his divine title. His maxi
Chapter 502
Everett grunted in pain. He planted his boots in the dirt and forced himself to stand up. His broken left knee screamed in agony. His pale right arm hung uselessly at his side. He leaned heavily on his plain steel sword, using it like a cane to keep himself upright. "Everett, sit down," Lyra pleaded, reaching for his arm. "You are bleeding. Let me try to bandage you.""Not yet," Everett said softly. He limped slowly toward the old man lying in the dirt. Drag. Step. Drag. Step. Silas followed closely behind him, keeping his sniper rifle aimed directly at the Pilgrim's head. "Give me the word, brother," Silas growled. "I will end him right now."Everett stopped in front of the Pilgrim. He looked down at the shivering, pathetic old man. The Pilgrim slowly raised his head. His wire glasses were crooked. His gray eyes were filled with tears of pure, absolute despair. "It's gone," the Pilgrim whispered. His human voice cracked. "My tools. My access. The beautiful machine... it is broke
Chapter 501
Everett hit the ground. He fell two feet and landed hard on his hands and knees. The impact sent a terrible, sharp spike of pain through his broken ribs. He gasped loudly, sucking in a massive, desperate breath of air. He opened his eyes. The darkness was gone. He was kneeling in the red dirt of the desert, just outside the broken gates of Apex City. He looked up at the sky. The violent, twisting, bruised purple clouds were completely gone. The angry red warning boxes were gone. The giant, floating holographic screens were gone. The sky was a perfect, clear, beautiful, normal blue. Small, soft white clouds floated lazily in the gentle wind. Everett listened. He expected to hear the deafening roar of magic. He expected to hear the terrible buzzing of corrupted code. He expected to hear the deep, mechanical hum of the System. But he heard none of those things. He heard the wind blowing softly through the dry dirt. Whoosh. He heard a small bird chirping somewhere in the distance
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The System was ripping the divine magic out of the earth. Korrok’s massive, fifty-foot-tall body began to shrink. The ancient gray rocks that made up his skin cracked and crumbled into dust. The thick pine trees growing on his shoulders withered and died. The giant mountain spirit was forcibly compressed. The magic was squeezed out of his code like water squeezed from a wet sponge. In ten seconds, Korrok was no longer a mountain. He fell to the invisible floor. He was now just an eight-foot-tall man. His skin was thick, rough, and gray like stone, but it was flesh. He had a face. He had eyes. He was breathing heavily, clutching his chest. He was no longer an immortal pillar of the world. He was just a very large, very strong mortal man. A high-level NPC. Nothing more. Everett looked to the left. He saw Ignis, the Forge Father. The god of volcanoes. The white light hit Ignis. The glowing, molten red magma inside the god’s chest instantly turned cold and black. The fire died. Ign
Chapter 499
The world was completely, perfectly black. Everett could not see his own hands. He could not see the ground beneath his boots. He could not see the sky. There was no sky. There were no stars. There were no clouds. There was only nothingness. He tried to open his mouth to speak, but he had no mouth. He tried to swing his sword, but he had no arms. He was just a floating mind trapped inside a dark, endless, freezing void. A loud, deep, mechanical hum vibrated everywhere. VVVRRRRRRMMMMMM. The sound did not come through his ears. It vibrated directly inside his soul. It was the sound of the System. It was the sound of the massive, ancient machine that ran the universe, and the machine was working harder than it ever had before. Everett felt a sudden, terrible panic. Did the Pilgrim win? Everett thought to himself in the dark. Did he press the reset button? Are Silas and Lyra gone? Are we all deleted?Suddenly, the pitch-black void was broken. A giant, sharp line of pure white light
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