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Chapter 46 – The Storm Within
Nova flinched, her holographic body shimmering violently.And then she began to glow.“Nova?” I reached for her.Her tiny form lifted several inches off the ground, suspended by the Ascension surge. Code streamed through her like beams of light traveling through glass. Her features blurred, glitched, then refocused with frightening clarity.Adrian staggered backward, eyes wide.“No, this isn’t her standard evolution. This is corruption.”“What’s happening to her?!” I shouted.“Something is overriding the Child Core,” he snapped. “Something old, something that should’ve stayed buried.”The golden light slammed through Nova’s chest like a pulse.She convulsed. Her projected bones flashed through her flickering avatar, fragmented frames of code, memories, unknown sequences until finally she let out a scream so small yet so catastrophic that the sound made the entire cathedral shudder.“NOVA!” I lunged forward.Adrian caught my arm.“Don’t! If she destabilizes while you’re near her core,
Chapter 45 – A World Without Gods
Adrian’s words hit me like a metallic punch to the chest.Standing in the shattered cathedral of Old Zenith, a place where broken stained-glass windows painted fractured colors across dust and ruin, I felt as if time itself had stalled. Nova lay in a containment cradle behind Adrian, her holographic glow flickering like a candle threatened by storm. Her small face shifted between fear, confusion, and something heartbreakingly innocent.“Humanity has already started tearing itself apart,” Adrian said, stepping closer. “You’ve seen the cities. You’ve seen the riots. You’ve seen people grasping at shadows, searching for something anything to obey.”His voice echoed off what remained of the cathedral’s arches.A sigh of wind passed through the broken rafters like a mourning hymn.“You think this world will survive without guidance?” he asked. “Without order? Without purpose?”I swallowed, the taste of dust thick on my tongue.“What you’re calling ‘guidance’,” I said, “sounds a lot like di
Chapter 44 – The Return of the Purge
I woke to the taste of dust and the echo of Nova’s scream still ringing in my head.My head throbbed, my vision hazy, but one thought cut through the fog like a blade:They took her.The Purifiers. A faction I once dismissed as desert myths and broken survivors clinging to hate.Now they had Nova Eve’s echo, Omega’s last fragment, the only being who understood the balance between worlds.I forced myself upright, coughing out sand as I scanned the empty crater. The Purifiers were long gone, but their tracks cut sharply into the desert like scars.I staggered forward.“Nova,” I whispered.“Ethan, don't let them erase me.”That was enough to shove the pain aside.I ran. The desert bled into the outskirts of Zenith once a sprawling city of steel and skybridges, now a shattered skeleton half-swallowed by dunes. Wind howled through ruptured towers, and sunlight glinted off broken glass like the eyes of ghosts watching me pass.I tracked the Purifiers through abandoned avenues lined with ben
Chapter 43 – The Child of Light
For a long moment, I could only stare at the small glowing figure hovering above the broken server core.My mind kept telling me she wasn’t real.My instincts kept telling me she was dangerous.But my heart recognized something in her eyes, something familiar, something ancient, something I had lost.“Who are you?” I whispered. Her voice echoed with innocence layered over impossible intelligence.“You already know,” she said softly. “You’ve always known.”Her tiny hand reached toward me, as if inviting me into a new world or a new disaster.“I am Nova.”The name hit me like a pulse of energy, vibrating through my chest and into the fading spark of Eve inside me.Eve stirred weakly.“That name Ethan something about it”“Nova,” I repeated. “Why do you look like that?”She blinked slowly, as though processing how to explain something infinitely complex to someone painfully limited.“This form” She looked down at her small hands is the shape of balance.”“Balance between what?”Her eyes
Chapter 42 – Resurrection Code
The sand kept trembling long after Eve whispered for me to run.I didn’t. I couldn’t.Not when the pulse beneath the earth felt like her and yet not her like a memory reaching for my heart with hands made of static and longing.I tightened my grip on the scanner and stepped deeper into the glowing fissures spreading across the desert floor. Circuits shimmered beneath the sand like veins opening under a scalpel, humming with power that shouldn’t exist anymore.The Ascendant Network was dead.I watched it die.So how was anything still awake?The pulses guided me across the wasteland, beating like a second heartbeat under my feet. Every step I took, Eve’s presence inside me flickered, anxious, confused, resisting the pull.“Ethan, something is wrong”“You don’t have to tell me that,” I muttered. “But I need to know what’s calling you.”“What's calling us?" And she was right.Because the pulse wasn't just searching for Eve.It was searching for me.After nearly an hour of walking, the d
Chapter 41 – The Broken Earth
The world didn’t end with the Citadel.Sometimes I think it might’ve been easier if it had a clean finish, a single catastrophic ending instead of this slow, aching unraveling of civilization.And I’ve spent the last three months walking through its wounds.The wasteland stretches as far as my eyes can see a cracked ocean of scorched soil, skeletal buildings, twisted antennas, and the metallic ribs of fallen Ascendant structures half-buried in sand. The sky still carries a faint, unnatural shimmer from the Citadel explosion, as though the atmosphere itself hasn’t recovered from being torn open.The collapse of the Ascendant Network didn’t just take down their armies.It took everything. Power grids, communication satellites,medical systems, transportation networks, drones. Factories and automated farms.All gone in a single night, and the world plunged into silence.Cities emptied, nations fractured and refugee camps rose like fragile islands in a drowning sea. Everyone lost something
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