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Chapter 3 — Glitch War Protocol
Author: Chifav
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The Crashwraith howled, a sound like a corrupted hard drive screaming. Its face pulsed with data fragments, flickering images of players caught mid-death: their last expressions frozen in agony.

Its voice was static.

Kael skidded beside Zari, coughing. The air tasted like copper and ash. The crater was melting around them, data streaming upward like reversed rain, glowing with corrupted red and void-black threads.

> [WARNING: Class Conflict Detected]

[Entity: Crashwraith is incompatible with Player Class.]

[Glitch Override Recommended.]

Zari didn’t wait.

She launched forward, blade slicing clean through the air—then stuttering, skipping like a scratched disc. Her sword phased through the Crashwraith’s shoulder.

No damage.

“What the hell—?!” she gritted.

The Crashwraith turned on her, its form reconfiguring mid-swipe, its limbs becoming tendrils of code, barbed with cursor spikes and error loops. It struck.

She barely blocked it, sliding back several feet, boots carving through corrupted rock.

Kael’s heart thundered.

This wasn’t a boss.

This was a glitch in god mode.

> [Skill Prompt: CODE DIVE (Unstable)]

[System Suggests: Manual Override Attempt]

[Glitch Trait Unlocked: Patch Theft]

Kael’s fingers twitched again.

“I’m gonna regret this.”

He activated the skill.

> [CODE DIVE ENGAGED...]

Reality peeled apart again, and Kael dove.

But this time, deeper.

He didn’t just see the code.. he felt it.

Every part of the Crashwraith’s file tree was encrypted, pulsing with corrupted user IDs and admin backdoors. It wasn’t supposed to exist. This wasn’t even in Eden Break’s test files.

It was pure system rot.

But nestled inside the data storm—he found a patch tag.

[Patch Fragment: Anti-Cheat Pulse v2.9 — Beta Only]

“Come to daddy,” he whispered.

> [Patch Theft: SUCCESSFUL]

[New Glitch Skill: SYSTEM PULSE]

[Cooldown: 60 seconds]

He snapped back into reality. Nose bleeding again. Zari was on her knees, sword broken, shield arm limp.

The Crashwraith hovered over her, claws twitching.

Kael raised both hands, channeling the unstable patch like a nuclear bomb in his chest.

> SYSTEM PULSE.

The world glitched—and the Crashwraith screamed.

It spasmed, code unraveling. Parts of its body folded in on themselves, re-compiling into jagged null zones. The air split in a shockwave of corrupted light.

Zari rolled away as Kael dropped to one knee, blood pouring from his ears.

> [Target Status: STUNNED]

[Effect Duration: 10 seconds]

She didn’t need more.

She grabbed the shard of her broken blade and lunged—slamming it straight into the Crashwraith’s chest. A core, glowing dimly, flickered inside.

“Hit it!” she shouted.

Kael didn’t think.

He reached into his glitch slot and triggered the only thing left active.

> [Skill: Flamewave (Corrupted)]

The spell fizzled. Rebooted.

Then exploded.

The blast blew Kael back.

Zari flew with him.

The crater ignited in glitchfire—data strings melting, screams tearing through the code like souls in a blender. The Crashwraith convulsed one last time.

Then deleted.

Silence.

Real silence.

Then…

> [CRASHWRAITH.EXE — REMOVED]

[Patch Restored to System Integrity: 2%+]

[Loot Gained: Memory Core Fragment [ZARI-003]]

[New Trait: Error Sync]

[Zari Sync Level Increased: 12%]

[Achievement Unlocked: This Isn’t Even My Final Form]

Kael groaned, “Fuck… me sideways…”

Zari coughed next to him, half-buried in code ash.

“You didn’t tell me you could override system patches.”

“I didn’t know I could until I stole one.”

She chuckled, then winced. “You’re a walking DMCA lawsuit.”

“Thanks.”

They lay there, barely alive, bloodied, broken and laughing.

For the first time, Kael felt it.

This wasn’t just survival.

This was warfare. Glitch warfare.

As they finally stood, Kael noticed something new in his UI:

> [NEW CLASS PATH AVAILABLE: “REALMODE ENTITY”]

[Requirements Met: Glitch Override, Patch Theft, AI Sync]

[Would you like to Evolve? Y/N]

Zari glanced over. “You’re getting prompts again, huh?”

Kael smirked. “Yup.”

“You’re going to press yes, aren’t you?”

“Yup.”

She exhaled. “God help us.”

> [EVOLUTION INITIATED…]

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