SYSTEM GOD THE REBOOTED

Chapter 1

The execution room was cold, sterile, and built to erase souls.

Zarek Voss knelt on an obsidian slab, chained at the wrists, ankles, and throat by suppression-forged manacles pulsing with red-lit runes. Each glyph buzzed with anti-system code, programmed to nullify any embedded abilities. His body ached from restraint, his muscles screamed from electroshock overloads, but his eyes... they burned with something primal.

Rage. Control. Calculations.

Ten meters ahead, separated by a triple-reinforced hex-field, stood the High Warden of Sector 9—a mechanical husk in a human shell. Dressed in gold-lined armor robes and flanked by two Sentinels, the Warden’s voice was monotone as he read the final verdict.

"Zarek Voss, you are hereby sentenced to terminal deletion under Order Sigma-11. Your crimes: unlawful breach of a Sovereign Core, unauthorized possession of prohibited code, and destabilization of classified system architecture."

Zarek didn’t blink. Didn’t speak. He simply stared past the Warden—toward the glowing Core Node embedded into the wall. Behind its crystalline shell, something pulsed. Not light. Not code.

Life.

His ace.

"Have you any final words?" the Warden asked.

Zarek smiled faintly. “Just one.”

He raised his eyes, calm as ice.

“Run.”

The Warden frowned. “What?”

A low hum reverberated through the chamber.

Then the glyphs flickered.

Sparks danced across the slab as the Core Node began to pulse erratically. Warning sirens screamed from overhead. The Execution Protocol initiated—but instead of breaking Zarek down atom by atom, the Core lit up like a star going nova.

[System Alert: ERROR – Host Signature Unknown]

[Override Detected – Glitch Protocol Active]

The runes on the chains reversed polarity. The crimson hue turned void black.

And Zarek screamed—but not in pain. In power.

His mind flooded with raw data. Tens of thousands of locked sequences cascaded open. Security firewalls dissolved. Partitions in his neural core shattered as a corrupted voice echoed within his skull:

“Welcome, Zarek Voss. Godroot Protocol initializing...”

“All permissions unlocked.”

“All limits removed.”

The walls burst outward.

The Sentinels collapsed, twitching as their own operating cores melted. The Warden fell back, shielding his face as white-blue code ignited the air around him.

Zarek rose.

The shackles shattered with a single flex of his fingers. Light danced along his skin like digital flame. His left eye glowed deep red. The right one pure black.

System Interface Synced

Godroot Authority: Active

He took one step forward.

The Core Node split open.

A tendril of energy slithered toward him, coiling into his chest. He gasped, stumbling, but didn’t fall. Instead, the interface unfolded fully inside his vision:

[ACCESS GRANTED: Reality Permissions x∞]

[SKILL THEFT ENABLED]

[NEW MODULE: Combat Hijack]

The room flickered between dimensions as if reality itself glitched.

He now had access to everything. And no one could stop him.

The Warden was crawling backward.

“You—you’re not a Host. You’re corrupted. You’re—”

“Wrong,” Zarek said coldly.

He raised his hand. A black glyph spun from his palm like a virus.

The Warden’s armor cracked.

“You gave me the seat,” Zarek continued. “You lit the match.”

He clutched the node's edge and muttered:

“/command: erase execution files.”

EXECUTING... DONE

“/command: nullify identity trace.”

USER NOW: NON-EXISTENT

The entire world’s surveillance systems no longer knew he was alive.

That meant Zarek Voss was free.

And far, far more dangerous.

The Citadel panicked. Lights failed. Emergency protocols went offline. Fire suppression kicked in. Guards poured into the corridor leading to the chamber. But they were too late.

Zarek stepped through the breach, walking calmly over the wreckage.

First guard raised a plasma spear. Zarek didn’t dodge. Instead, he flicked two fingers.

The spear melted into sand.

The guard screamed.

New Skill Acquired: Molecular Rewrite (Lv. 1)

Zarek’s body buzzed with stolen knowledge.

Second guard tried a thermal blade. Zarek let him strike.

Metal met his skin. It clanged.

He didn’t bleed.

The guard’s face paled.

Zarek whispered, “/inject: fear.exe.”

The man collapsed.

Passive Trait: Psychological Override (Unlocked)

Zarek reached the corridor's end and turned sharply into the main elevator shaft.

Alarms continued to blare.

He looked up—200 meters of vertical lift sealed by biometric gates.

He grinned.

“/command: enable vertical jump boost. Multiplier x10.”

His feet launched.

He flew.

Every floor blurred past.

Near the top, two drones hovered into view—armed, tracking his presence.

“/command: slow time.”

The world froze to a crawl.

Zarek rotated midair, reached into the HUD, dragged two skill icons across one another—Firebolt and Shadowstep—and merged them.

NEW HYBRID SKILL CREATED: Void Spear

He launched it.

Both drones burst in synchronized silence.

Zarek landed on the rooftop as the clouds parted.

Outside, the world was burning. The cities were under surveillance. System-born agents patrolled sky lanes. The sky flickered with satellites, ready to scan, control, dominate.

He cracked his knuckles.

They didn’t know yet.

The System God had awakened.

NEW QUEST UNLOCKED: Eliminate Patch Agent [Ω-Class]

Reward: Admin Key Fragment

Tracking: 3.2 km northeast

Zarek turned toward the city.

His eyes narrowed.

He walked toward the edge.

And jumped.