2025-07-23 22:56:41
Previous Chapter
Latest Chapter
Chapter 65 – The Final Play
Location: The Forge – Core Layer Simulation Time: UnquantifiableThe world outside had vanished, The chaos of the match, the heat of the pitch, the echoes of goals, all of it dissolved, Now, Robin stood barefoot in a white, endless room. It wasn’t cold.It wasn’t warm, It just was, And standing across from him… Was her. His mother. Not a memory. Not a projection. Not a ghost. Alive. Or something like it.Robin’s throat tightened. He could barely speak. “…Mom?”She turned, smiling gently, Her voice was soft, timeless. “You made it, Robin. You crossed the Mirrorfield. You reached the Core. The question is, what will you do now?”Robin walked toward her, pulse racing. He didn’t understand. Couldn’t. “You’re dead,” he said. “You died in my arms.”She nodded. “I did. But I also uploaded a part of myself, the part that wouldn’t let go. That part lives here.”She touched the air, and the white bent like silk beneath her fingers. “I am… the last safeguard of the Forge. The final lock. The Fin
Chapter 64 – The Match of All Minds
Location: The Forge (Mirrorfield Simulation Layer) Time: 0:00 on the Clock – Game StartThe whistle echoed, not from lips, but from the Forge itself. No fans. No lights. No referees. Only the raw power of purpose… and memory.The pitch beneath their feet shifted with every breath. Each blade of simulated grass was a string of consciousness. And every pass would decide the future of human autonomy.On one side: Robin, Layla, Ashar, and Specter, Team Soul.On the other: The Board, nine shadows, each a walking embodiment of greed, fear, and control.They looked human, but they weren’t. They were constructs… woven from stolen minds, ancient AI schematics, and zero empathy.Robin didn’t flinch. “Let’s play.” The moment the ball rolled, the pitch fractured. Reality twisted.Layla sprinted across the field, the world melting into a memory of her childhood: a dusty courtyard in Marrakesh, a crowd screaming, and a broken ankle that ended her first career, She stumbled.Her shadow-self tried to
Chapter 63 – Journey to the Forge
Location: En route to the Ashwood Neural Forge Time: 7:15 A.M. (West African Time)The Nigerian sun was rising behind them, Robin, Layla, Ashar, and the once-deadliest synthetic on Earth, Specter walked out of the Archive like ghosts emerging from myth.Specter was silent. He wore no armor now, no mask. Just a grey hoodie Layla tossed him from her pack. His eyes, once pits of cold artificiality, now shimmered faintly human.Robin felt the weight of the journey ahead. Not just kilometers to cross, but history to confront, Ahead of them lay The Forge the birthplace of the Ashwood System, Where everything began, And where it must now end.Halfway across the world, in a sterile skyscraper sealed from all frequencies, the Board of Null watched through surveillance feeds, Robin’s every step. Specter’s awakening. The Archive’s unraveling, Nine masked faces, No expressions.Only the voice of the Chairwoman cut through the silence. “Ashwood is approaching the origin point.”Another voice: “He’
Chapter 62 – Specter vs. The Soul
Location: The Hidden Archive – Beneath the Baobab Grove, Ibadan Time: 3:14 A.M.The air inside the Archive dropped several degrees, Specter took one step into the vault. Silent. Controlled. Measured, Robin stood between the floating glass sphere, his mother’s final legacy, and the killer.Ashar leveled his weapon, Layla had her knife drawn. Specter’s eyes void of emotion, locked on Robin. “You’re not a player. You’re an infection, The world doesn’t need dreams anymore. It needs certainty.”Robin took a breath, And stepped forward. “No. What you mean is it needs control. You’re not the cure. You’re the cage.”Specter moved like lightning, In a blink, he was on Robin, throwing a brutal elbow, Robin ducked, rolled, and kicked upward, His foot connected with something hard not bone. Reinforced armor beneath synthetic skin.Specter stumbled back, then spun into a high kick, Layla intercepted mid-air, blocking with her forearm, The force sent her crashing into a stone pillar, Ashar opened f
Chapter 61 – The Shot That Changed Everything
Location: Kyoto, Japan Time: 5:43 A.M.The world froze with the trigger pull, The sharp report echoed through the quiet morning as birds scattered from trees and the early sunrise dimmed behind a blooming shock of red light, Layla screamed, Ashar yelled into his comms, Sierra went dead silent.Robin fell to one knee, The whistle clattered from his hand and rolled into the dirt, A thin trail of smoke curled from the treeline where the shooter had stood, now gone as if they were never there.Robin’s hand pressed against his chest, He expected warm blood, pain, darkness. Instead… nothing. No wound, Only scorched fabric where a bullet had been stopped vaporized by the thin metal disc tucked beneath his shirt.The whistle. It had saved him, Layla reached him, grabbing his shoulders, scanning his body. “Are you hit? Robin say something!”He held up the whistle, its once-pristine shine now darkened and cracked, barely intact. “I think… my mother just saved me. Again.”Ashar arrived seconds l
Chapter 60 – After the Whistle
Location: Global – Post-Audit Earth Time: 24 Hours After TerminationFor the first time in years, the world paused, No war, No headline about collapsing leagues, No scandal to flood the networks Instead, there was a strange quiet athmosphere, And then cheering, Dancing in the streets, A flood of joy that didn’t need to be televised to be real.Across continents, people emerged from their homes not just to celebrate, but to reclaim something they’d lost long before the Audit: The simple beauty of the game.But peace came with pressure, Within 24 hours, Robin Ashwood’s face was on every screen again “The Savior of Sport!”“Ashwood Ends the Audit!”“Is Robin a God or a Ghost?”He didn’t answer interviews, Didn’t show up for press conferences, Didn’t accept endorsements. Instead, he vanished. Layla, Ashar, and Sierra met him in a quiet rooftop garden in Kyoto, far from cameras.Ashar handed him a dossier. “Twenty-three corporate warlords lost billions because of the Audit collapse. There
You may also like
TRILLIONAIRE IN DISGUISE
Lyonlee314.8K viewsUnexpected Trillionaire.
Max Luthor85.0K viewsBuilding My Life
Anderson José140.8K viewsThe Unexpected Heir
Estherace84.8K viewsHEIR TO POWER
Hop-Grip71 viewsUnrivaled In The World: Rise of Kaiden Blackwood
Red Phoenix.7.2K viewsThe Return Of Franklin Miles
DIAMOND💎6.7K viewsThe Fury Of Andi Emerson A.K.A Zeus
Quinn Writes1.2K views