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Yesterday, Everett could have flipped the beam with two fingers. He had maximum stats. Today, he was Level 1. His strength stat was completely gone. And his left arm was broken. He only had his right arm. The pale, gray arm with the one-second delay. "Stand back," Everett ordered the children. Leo pulled the little ones back against the wall. Everett knelt down next to the heavy wooden beam. He slid his pale right hand under the thick wood. He took a deep breath. “Lift,” he commanded his brain. He waited. “One, Mississippi.” The pale gray fingers snapped shut around the rough wood. The mechanical muscles in the artificial arm whined loudly. The sharp, hot electric pain stabbed into Everett’s brain, but he ignored it. Everett pushed upward with his legs and his right arm. He roared in agony. The veins on his neck popped out. His face turned bright red. The heavy wooden beam barely moved. It scraped against the floor. [HP: 1 / 100]His body was at its absolute limit. If a splinte
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Everett’s mind raced back to the old, white laboratories from a thousand years ago. He remembered writing the deep code of the Continuum. What are Experience Points? They are not just magic numbers that make you hit harder. They are raw data. They are digital mass. They are the weight of a person’s existence inside the computer server. "Data is mass," Everett whispered. His green eyes lit up with a wild, desperate, terrifying idea. "If I have enough data... I can build my own body."If he could force the System to burn his Experience Points, he could convert that raw digital data into physical mass. He could force himself back into the real world. He could solidify his ghost. Everett looked at the red clock hovering outside the window. 3:303:29The Vantablack void was halfway across the classroom. It ate a wooden desk. The desk was cut perfectly in half. There was no sawdust. Just absolute nothingness. Everett opened his system console. He selected his entire pool of 500,000 Ex
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Everett drifted over a poor, ruined neighborhood in Sector Six. He looked down through the glass. He saw an old, crumbling stone building. It used to be a school, but during the war, it had been turned into a shelter. The roof was half-broken. Heavy wooden beams had fallen down, blocking the front doors. Everett saw movement inside the building. He dropped lower, pressing his ghostly face right against the invisible floor to get a better look. Inside a small, dusty classroom on the first floor, there were children. They were five small orphans. They wore dirty, oversized clothes. Their faces were covered in soot and mud. The oldest was a boy named Leo, maybe twelve years old. He was hugging a tiny little girl who was crying softly. Three other children huddled behind an old wooden desk, shivering in terror. They were completely trapped. The heavy wooden beams from the collapsed ceiling blocked the only door out of the classroom. Everett watched Leo push his small shoulder again
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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
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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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