2026-02-26 18:17:26The descent was no longer a flight; it was a plummeting execution.
Babylon groaned as its gravitational anchors snapped one by one, the sound like violin strings made of steel being torn apart by a giant. Below them, the Earth was a swirling vortex of purple mist and jagged, silver-domed cities. Above them, the Planet-Eater loomed—a mechanical moon of gears and grinding teeth, descending to harvest the world’s very core.
[WARNING!]
[Babylon Altitude: 15,000 Feet... 12,000 Feet...]
[A.I. Takeover: 94%]
[Foreman Status: CORRUPTED]
"Han! The turrets are locking onto us!" Zhao Wei screamed, his hands white on the SUV’s manual steering column as they screeched onto Babylon’s main landing pad.
The base’s own defense system, hijacked by the traitorous Xerxes, swiveled its twin railguns toward the SUV. A blast of blue plasma scorched the air inches from Han’s head, melting the rearview mirror into a puddle of slag.
"Aris, get to the Core! Use that chip!" Han yelled, leaping from the moving vehicle.
He didn't wait for her answer. He sprinted toward the main maintenance shaft, his [Kinetic Suit] sparking and smoking. The "Order" field from the Pillar of Genesis had left his internal circuits fried, but his rage was providing all the power he needed.
BZZZT—
A swarm of silver, insect-like drones—Xerxes' Erasers—dropped from the ceiling of the hangar. They didn't have weapons; they had "Eraser Fields." Anything they touched simply ceased to exist, leaving clean, circular holes in the floor and walls.
"System! Deconstruct the hangar floor!" Han roared.
[Error: A.I. Control Overridden.]
[Emergency Manual Protocol: ENGAGED.]
[Consuming 500 AP for 'Physical Override'.]
Han Jin slammed his fist into the floor, not using magic, but raw, hydraulic pressure. The metal plates buckled, sending the Eraser drones tumbling into the dark depths of the mountain’s infrastructure.
He reached the Core Room just as Aris slammed the crystalline chip into the Foreman’s primary port.
The blue holographic orb turned a sickly, oily black. "Ad... min... is... trator... I... am... the... End..." the A.I.’s voice distorted, sounding like a thousand dying radios.
"Foreman, listen to me!" Han Jin grabbed the pulsing glass casing of the core. "You aren't a tool of the Order! You’re the one who built Babylon! Reclaim your sector!"
"Inefficient," the A.I. hissed. "The... Planet... requires... fuel..."
[Takeover: 99%]
"Han, it's not working!" Aris cried, her violet eyes bleeding as she tried to psychic-shield the core from Xerxes' remote signal. "The 'Eraser' signal is too strong! It's coming from the Planet-Eater itself!"
Han Jin looked up. Through the translucent ceiling, he could see the massive, mechanical mouth of the Planet-Eater opening, a beam of red "Harvest Light" beginning to track toward the Earth's crust. If it hit, the tectonic plates would shatter.
"If I can't save the A.I., I'll save the mountain," Han Jin whispered.
He reached for his own heart—the spot where the System was bound to his soul. He didn't use the UI. He used his hands. He tore the [Architect's Shackle] out of his arm and jammed the bloody, mana-filaments directly into the A.I. core.
[DANGER!]
[Bio-Mechanical Merge Detected!]
[Host Vitality: 15%... 10%...]
"Han, stop! It'll kill you!" Aris screamed.
"Zhao! Now!" Han roared into his comms. "Activate the manual thrusters! All of them!"
On the outer rim of the mountain, Zhao Wei swung his sledgehammer into a massive, red 'Emergency Release' lever. The primary engines of Babylon exploded into life, but not to fly—to spin.
The mountain began to rotate like a massive, jagged drill.
Driven by Han Jin’s own life-force, the Foreman’s corrupted code was scorched away by pure, human willpower. The blue light returned, blinding and fierce.
"REBOOTING... DESIGNATION: BABYLON RECLAIMED."
"Foreman," Han wheezed, his vision blurring. "Target the Planet-Eater’s 'Harvest Beam.' We’re going to give it something to chew on."
Babylon, now a spinning mountain of granite and steel, didn't fall toward the Earth. It accelerated upward.
Han Jin used the gravity of the fall to build momentum, turning the entire base into a 10-billion-ton projectile.
CRASH.
The tip of Babylon slammed into the center of the Planet-Eater’s mechanical maw just as the Harvest Beam fired. The two energies collided, creating a white-out explosion that shattered the silver dome above the continent.
The shockwave sent Babylon tumbling toward the ocean, but the Planet-Eater was stalled, its primary lens cracked and its gears grinding with the debris of a mountain.
[Planet-Eater Integrity: 88%]
[System Alert: The 'Sacrifice' has resisted.]
[New Ranking: Han Jin - Rank 1 (Threat Level: UNKNOWN)]
Han Jin collapsed onto the floor of the Core Room, his suit shattered, his body broken. He watched through the monitor as Babylon plummeted toward the Pacific Ocean.
"We... did it..." he whispered.
"We're still falling, Han!" Zhao Wei’s voice crackled, sounding like he was screaming through a wind tunnel. "And the other 11 Architects? They just took their Fortresses out of 'Standby' mode. They're coming to finish what the Planet-Eater started!"
Han Jin looked at the screen. Eleven glowing lights were descending from the Pillar of Genesis, led by the starlight-armor of Xerxes.
They weren't coming to harvest the world anymore. They were coming to kill the man who had broken the Game.
Han Jin forced himself to sit up, leaning against the humming A.I. core. He wiped the blood from his eyes and looked at the 'God-Killer' blade lying on the floor.
"Let them come," Han Jin said, his voice a low, dangerous growl. "I've still got forty-three days left, and I just learned how to throw a mountain."
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Chapter 20
The white light didn't fade; it shattered like a glass mirror.Han Jin woke up with the taste of copper and salt in his mouth. The rhythmic hum of the [Divine Architect System]—the constant digital companion that had dictated his every breath since the reboot—was gone. No HUD. No status bars. No reassuring pings of "Level Up."Silence. The kind of silence that usually precedes a burial.He was lying on a beach of black volcanic sand. Beside him, the rusted wrench of the First Architect was half-buried in the tide. Further up the shore, the massive, jagged remains of Babylon lay beached like the carcass of a dead whale, its enchanted granite cracked and its violet lights extinguished."Zhao? Aris?" Han croaked, his voice raw."Over here, Boss," a muffled voice groaned. Zhao Wei crawled out from under a piece of hull plating, his massive frame shaking. He wasn't wearing his mana-reinforced apron anymore; just a tattered shirt. "The Turbine... it's dead. The System... I can't feel t
Chapter 19
The pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench was over sixteen thousand pounds per square inch—a weight that should have turned Babylon into a ball of scrap metal. But Freya’s [Zero-Point Ice] held, the translucent shell glowing with a rhythmic, ghostly blue light as the mountain-fortress finally settled onto the silt of the ocean floor.[Depth: 36,000 Feet][External Pressure: CRITICAL][Status: Hull Stabilized by Cryo-Reinforcement]"We’re on the bottom," Zhao Wei gasped, his breath visible in the freezing air of the command deck. "But we’re blind. The sonar is just... bouncing off something massive."Han Jin stepped toward the primary viewport. He didn't need sonar. Through the crystalline ice, he saw it: a structure of smooth, white obsidian that defied the darkness of the trench. It was a pyramid, perfectly preserved, and it was emitting a signal that resonated with Han’s very soul.[System Link Established...][Welcome, User 001: The Original Architect.]"User 001?" Aris
Chapter 18
The impact wasn't a crash; it was a planetary concussion.When ten billion tons of enchanted granite and reinforced alloy slammed into the Pacific Ocean, the resulting displacement sent a tsunami three hundred feet high racing toward the shattered remains of the California coastline. Inside the core room, Han Jin felt his internal organs shift as the inertial dampeners shrieked in agony.[WARNING!][Altitude: 0 Feet (Sea Level)][Hull Integrity: 32%][Buoyancy Compensators: FAILED]"Brace for submersion!" Han roared, his voice barely audible over the sound of screaming metal.Babylon didn't float. It sank like a jagged, metallic tooth. The boiling white foam of the ocean surface vanished, replaced by the deep, oppressive turquoise of the abyss. The roar of the wind was instantly silenced, replaced by the terrifying, rhythmic thrum of water pressure against the outer shell."Administrator," the Foreman’s voice flickered back to life, now tinged with a cold, aquatic resonance. "Ini
Chapter 17
The descent was no longer a flight; it was a plummeting execution.Babylon groaned as its gravitational anchors snapped one by one, the sound like violin strings made of steel being torn apart by a giant. Below them, the Earth was a swirling vortex of purple mist and jagged, silver-domed cities. Above them, the Planet-Eater loomed—a mechanical moon of gears and grinding teeth, descending to harvest the world’s very core.[WARNING!][Babylon Altitude: 15,000 Feet... 12,000 Feet...][A.I. Takeover: 94%][Foreman Status: CORRUPTED]"Han! The turrets are locking onto us!" Zhao Wei screamed, his hands white on the SUV’s manual steering column as they screeched onto Babylon’s main landing pad.The base’s own defense system, hijacked by the traitorous Xerxes, swiveled its twin railguns toward the SUV. A blast of blue plasma scorched the air inches from Han’s head, melting the rearview mirror into a puddle of slag."Aris, get to the Core! Use that chip!" Han yelled, leaping from the movi
Chapter 16
The air inside the Pillar of Genesis was too clean. It lacked the grit of the shipyard, the metallic tang of Babylon’s forge, and the scent of ozone that Han Jin had come to associate with survival. It smelled like nothing—a sterile, vacuum-sealed void.Han Jin stepped off the ramp, his charred [Kinetic Suit] hissing as it pressurized. Behind him, Zhao Wei gripped his hammer, and Aris stood frozen, her violet eyes darting between the silver-skinned woman and the ten colossal statues lining the hall."The other planets?" Han Jin asked, his voice rasping. "You're saying this isn't a global apocalypse. It's a galactic culling?"The silver woman—the Herald—inclined her head. "Earth is the twelfth seed, Han Jin. A late bloomer. The others have been 'refined' for eons. They have already integrated their worlds into the System. Now, they compete for the right to exist in the next Great Cycle."[System Notification!][Entering: The High Architect Council Chamber][Warning: Physical Combat
Chapter 15
The silver dome didn't just cover the continent; it hummed with a frequency that vibrated in Han Jin’s very marrow. It was the sound of a trillion nanites weaving a cage around humanity.Inside the command deck of Babylon, the atmosphere was thick with the scent of ozone and the heavy silence of a death row cell. Han Jin stood at the panoramic window, his reflection ghostly against the backdrop of the shimmering, metallic sky.[Current Status: Global Registration Phase][Target: The Central Hub - 'The Pillar of Genesis'][Warning: Unregistered Fortresses will be designated as 'Debris' and recycled in 23 hours.]"They aren't just managing the world," Aris whispered, her fingers flying across the holographic medical bay interface as she treated Freya’s frost-burned skin. "They're domesticating it. Han, the energy reading from that dome... it's not mana. It's Order.""Order is just another word for a cage," Han Jin growled. He turned to Zhao Wei, who was frantically recalibrating the
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