2026-07-31 08:23:23The glowing screen hovered before Ethan.
Emergency Evolution Available.
Unlock Successor Ability?
YES
NO
The First Collector continued walking.
Each step echoed through the ruined conference hall.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
The broken chains around his body fell to the floor one after another.
Lyra shouted,
“Ethan!”
“Choose!”
Without another second of hesitation…
Ethan pressed YES.
The moment his finger touched the screen…
Everything stopped.
The noise disappeared.
The gunfire.
The screaming.
The collapsing walls.
Time itself seemed to freeze.
A familiar white space surrounded Ethan.
The Creator stood a few feet away.
His hands were inside his pockets.
He smiled gently.
“So…”
“You finally accepted.”
Ethan frowned.
“What is this place?”
“A space between seconds.”
“No one else can enter.”
Ethan looked around.
“Is time really frozen?”
The Creator nodded.
“For everyone except us.”
Ethan took a step closer.
“You planned this.”
“I planned many things.”
“But not everything.”
The Creator looked at Ethan carefully.
“You’ve changed faster than anyone before you.”
“What happens if I unlock this power?”
The Creator became silent.
Finally, he answered,
“You stop becoming ordinary.”
Ethan didn’t understand.
“What does that mean?”
“It means…”
“The more power you accept…”
“The less human you’ll remain.”
Silence.
The Creator sighed.
“I offered every Host the same choice.”
“Some accepted.”
“Some refused.”
“What did Noah choose?”
“He accepted halfway.”
“What about Kai?”
The Creator smiled faintly.
“He accepted everything.”
Ethan’s eyes narrowed.
“So Kai…”
“…isn’t human anymore?”
The Creator didn’t answer.
Instead…
He raised one hand.
A silver door appeared between them.
“Walk through.”
Ethan hesitated.
“What happens then?”
“You’ll awaken.”
“And there’ll be no turning back.”
For several seconds…
Ethan stood motionless.
He thought about Sophia.
Alexander.
Evelyn.
Professor Orion.
Lyra.
Everyone risking their lives outside.
He finally looked at the Creator.
“If becoming stronger is the only way to protect them…”
“I’ll pay the price.”
The Creator smiled.
“I expected that answer.”
Ethan pushed open the silver door.
The white world shattered instantly.
…
Reality returned.
Only one second had passed.
The First Collector’s fist was inches from Ethan’s face.
Then…
The silver system disappeared forever.
A new symbol appeared on Ethan’s chest.
A glowing silver crown surrounded by twelve stars.
The Legacy Core inside him awakened completely.
Boom!
An invisible shockwave exploded outward.
Every Collector was thrown backward.
Even the First Collector slid several meters across the floor.
His expression remained calm.
But for the first time…
His feet had moved.
Lyra stared at Ethan.
“He…”
“He completed the First Awakening.”
Noah whispered,
“I’ve never seen this before.”
Alexander couldn’t believe his eyes.
Ethan slowly opened them.
His pupils had become silver.
Tiny streams of blue light flowed through them.
The world looked different.
He could see energy.
He could see the Legacy flowing through every living person.
He could even see invisible connections linking the Collectors to the Collection Gate.
The system’s voice no longer came from a screen.
It came directly from within him.
First Awakening Complete.
Successor Ability Unlocked.
Legacy Sight.
Legacy Control.
Legacy Pulse.
The First Collector analyzed Ethan.
His glowing eye flickered.
“Power increase detected.”
“Recalculating combat probability.”
He paused.
Then spoke again.
“Victory probability…”
“…forty-eight percent.”
Alexander’s eyes widened.
“It was three percent a moment ago.”
Ethan slowly clenched his fist.
Blue energy gathered around it.
Not violently.
Calmly.
Like water flowing around stone.
The floor beneath him cracked.
The First Collector smiled.
For the first time…
He actually smiled.
“Excellent.”
“You are finally becoming worthy.”
Without warning…
He disappeared.
Ethan disappeared at the exact same moment.
Boom!
Their fists collided in the center of the hall.
The impact shattered every remaining window in the building.
A shockwave swept across the city.
Car alarms began blaring.
Buildings trembled.
The Collection Gate above them rippled violently.
The First Collector took three steps backward.
Ethan took only one.
Silence filled the hall.
The Collectors looked at one another.
Noah slowly smiled.
“He pushed C-001 back…”
Lyra’s grip tightened on her sword.
“No…”
“It’s even worse than that.”
Alexander looked at her.
“What do you mean?”
Lyra never took her eyes off Ethan.
“The First Collector…”
“…wasn’t using his full strength.”
The First Collector nodded.
“Correct.”
He slowly removed the silver badge from his chest.
Then…
He crushed it in his hand.
The silver mark beneath his eye spread across his entire face.
His metallic skin turned black.
His body grew taller.
His energy multiplied several times over.
The conference hall began shaking under the pressure alone.
The Creator’s calm voice echoed one final time.
“Combat restrictions removed.”
“Collector C-001…”
“Release your true form.”
The First Collector smiled.
Then his body erupted in silver flames.
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The blue screen flickered.It was unstable.Unlike the flawless interface Ethan had relied on throughout his journey, this one was fractured.Tiny cracks spread across its edges as though the system itself had suffered tremendous damage.The familiar mechanical voice spoke again.It was weaker than Ethan remembered.Yet…He smiled.After everything that had happened…It still sounded like home.Legacy System…Emergency Restoration… 7% Complete…Warning… Core functions unavailable…Reason… Legacy sacrificed during the Final Convergence…Ethan’s heart pounded.“So…”“You survived.”The screen remained silent for a moment.Then…A new sentence appeared.Correction…This unit did not survive.This unit… was remembered.The words struck him harder than any attack ever could.Remembered.Not rebuilt.Not repaired.Remembered.The blue screen slowly continued.Human belief…Shared memories…Legacy fragments carried within countless lives…Emergency reconstruction successful.Ethan finally un
Chapter 108: The Sky Breaker
The crack spread across the blue sky.It didn’t happen all at once.Thin fractures crawled outward like veins across glass, stretching from one horizon to the other.Each new crack released a faint silver light.The peaceful meadow beneath Ethan’s feet trembled.Birds that had been singing moments before suddenly took flight.The gentle breeze vanished.An unnatural silence swallowed the world.Ren’s small hand instinctively reached for Ethan’s.His fingers were trembling.“They found us.”Ethan looked down.“Who?”Ren swallowed.“The ones who don’t want us remembered.”Another deafening roar echoed overhead.This time…It was closer.The sky shattered a little more.Chunks of blue light drifted downward before dissolving into countless glowing particles.Ethan had seen worlds collapse before.He had watched stars disappear.Yet…There was something uniquely terrifying about watching the sky itself come apart.Not because it looked destructive.Because it looked…Wrong.Like reality w
Chapter 107: The First Face
Every step echoed inside Ethan’s helmet.Crunch.Crunch.Crunch.The lunar dust compressed beneath his boots as he followed the countless footprints stretching toward the enormous black doorway.Mission Control remained connected through his communicator.“Ethan, your oxygen levels are stable.”“Heart rate elevated, but within acceptable limits.”Dr. Brooks’ calm voice filled the silence.Professor Orion spoke next.“Distance to the structure: four hundred meters.”“Proceed carefully.”“I will.”Ethan answered.He never took his eyes off the doorway.The closer he came…The larger it became.From orbit it had looked massive.Standing beneath it…It was overwhelming.It rose into the endless darkness above him like a mountain carved from midnight.Its surface reflected nothing.Not sunlight.Not stars.Not even Ethan himself.It was as though the doorway refused to acknowledge reality.Back on Earth…Sophia stood inside Mission Control.Her hands remained folded tightly together.She h
Chapter 106: The Man Who Walked Through Silence
By sunrise…Ethan had made his decision.He would go.Not because he trusted the beings beyond the black doorway.Not because he believed they meant no harm.But because he had seen something in the message that no one else seemed willing to acknowledge.They had asked.Twice.First…May we speak?Then…One may come.An enemy didn’t ask permission.An enemy simply invaded.Whatever waited beyond that door…It wanted to be heard.Whether that was a blessing or a trap…Only one way existed to find out.The launch facility came alive before dawn.Floodlights illuminated the enormous launch pad while engineers hurried around the silver shuttle.Unlike the bulky spacecraft used during the early years of space exploration…This one had been built after the Seven Days.Human technology had advanced dramatically with knowledge recovered from the Architects.Its engines were cleaner.Its shields stronger.Its navigation system could cross the distance between Earth and the Moon in less than th
Chapter 105: The Invitation
No one celebrated.Although the footprints had stopped appearing…Although the black doorway had remained closed…Not a single person inside Mission Control believed the danger had passed.If anything…The silence felt heavier.It was the silence of two strangers looking at one another across a great distance.Waiting.Wondering who would speak next.Dr. Elena Brooks stood beside the communications console, replaying Ethan’s transmission.“My name is Ethan.”“You asked if you could speak.”“You can.”She listened to it three more times before finally muting the speakers.“I’ve worked in aerospace for seventeen years.”She slowly shook her head.“I spent my entire career preparing for first contact.”She smiled weakly.“I never imagined it would begin with… permission.”Professor Orion nodded.“Neither did I.”Hours passed.The black doorway did not move.The Moon remained quiet.Scientists continued monitoring every satellite, every telescope, and every sensor aimed toward the far sid
Chapter 104: Beyond the Black Door
The three knocks echoed through Mission Control.Slow.Steady.Deliberate.Every person in the room froze.No one spoke.No one breathed.The sound wasn’t coming from the speakers anymore.It seemed to resonate through the walls themselves.Three knocks…Yet it felt as though something enormous had struck the fabric of reality.Then…Silence.Emergency lights flickered back to life.Rows of monitors rebooted one after another.Technicians hurried to their stations.“Power is returning!”“I’m reconnecting to the lunar station!”“Signal stabilizing!”Dr. Elena Brooks leaned over one of the consoles.“Get me visual confirmation.”The largest monitor flashed.Static filled the screen.Then the image cleared.Everyone stared.The giant black doorway still stood on the Moon’s far side.Exactly where it had been before.Silent.Motionless.Almost…Innocent.Kai slowly let out the breath he had been holding.“I hate doors.”Lyra looked at him.“You hate everything.”“I especially hate mysteri
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