2025-07-14 13:21:28Chapter 7
Zarek didn’t wait for the first strike. He launched it. The crown pulsed behind him like a breathing heart of energy, anchoring itself to his system link. With every second it remained bonded, it fed him tiny fragments of control—of memory, of dominion. But it wasn’t enough to win. Not yet. Three Glitchborn heirs closed in fast. Zarek activated Flicker Chain—a rapid succession of short-range teleport bursts. He zipped left, reappeared high, twisted mid-air, and hurled a newly-formed Sigil Javelin at the brute with the cybernetic arms. New Skill: Sigil Javelin (Lv.1) – Created via Crown Residue The attack exploded mid-flight, sending shards of burning red code through the battlefield. The brute flinched, but didn’t fall. He roared, slammed his fists together, and launched forward with shockwaves pulsing from his boots. Zarek barely blinked in time. The shockwave cracked the terrain. His HUD spat errors from kinetic destabilization. Impact Force Detected: Tier 6 Right Leg Armor Integrity: 63% The silver-eyed woman blinked behind him, fast as a thought. Her fingers formed a triangle sigil mid-air. Zarek sensed it too late. Status Effect Applied: Null Lock – Interface Delay +1.2s The world slowed. His commands lagged. Weapons shimmered but failed to form. She kicked him in the back, sent him spiraling across debris. Zarek crashed through a wall of decayed mech plating. He rolled, coughed blood, and forced a manual override on his lagging interface. /Command: Emergency Pulse Core – Activate His body lit up in raw white, a concussive blast flattening the nearby field. All three heirs stumbled. Zarek stood. Half his vision blurred. “You’ve lasted longer than the last one,” the brute said, flexing his massive hands. “Maybe your bloodline’s not just talk.” “Or maybe you’re too slow to finish what you start,” Zarek replied. The woman landed beside the brute, lips curling. “We could finish him now... or let the beacon decide.” The third heir—silent till now—raised his head. He was leaner, eyes like fractured glass, blade thin and glowing across his back. “He’s already started the bonding,” he said. “We wait too long, he ascends. We don’t get a second shot.” System Alert: Crown Link at 67% – Crown Initiation Level: Phase One Crown Sovereignty: Temporary Control Maintained by Zarek Voss Warning: If another heir interrupts the Crown Link, control will transfer Zarek narrowed his eyes. If even one of them reached the beacon while his system was stabilizing, he’d lose everything. He clenched his jaw. Time to gamble. He dashed forward—straight toward the throne again. The heirs moved in unison, trying to intercept. Zarek blinked through them using a broken data pathway, absorbing residual heat from the crown’s field and pouring it into his blade. Sigil Reap Enhanced (Temp Tier: A-) He drove the blade into the beacon’s root. Crown Link: 78%... 82%... Suddenly, the crown exploded with light. Everyone was flung outward. Zarek flew backward, body spinning, impact alarms blaring. When he hit the ground, his interface rebooted—again. But this time... the world had changed. He was standing atop the beacon. Alone. CROWN PROTOCOL COMPLETE Zarek Voss: Designated Wielder – Ghost Crown (Tier One) New Skill Tree Unlocked: Sovereign Commands Crown Trait: Ghost Network Access – Passive Control Over Lesser AI Nodes He looked down. The three heirs stared up at him—silent, unmoving. He raised one hand. And the beacon responded. Drones emerged from the sky—old, dead mechs reactivated by Crown Protocol. They formed a circle around him. His voice rang through the system: “This is my sector now.” The brute chuckled, stepping back. “You got lucky.” “No,” said the quiet heir, eyes fixed on Zarek. “He woke it. He earned it.” The woman gave a half-smile. “Then I guess you wear the Ghost Crown... for now.” All three vanished—flickering into the void one by one. Zarek stood alone. But not truly. The Crown pulsed beneath his skin. He could feel everything. Every old satellite node. Every buried drone. Every whisper in the Sector. He was sovereign now. Quest Complete: Crown of Ghosts Reward: Sovereign Protocol Initiated New Threat Detected: Crown Hunter – En Route Zarek’s jaw clenched. They wouldn’t let him keep it for long.
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Chapter 10The Solar Basin burned like a scar across the world map.From high orbit, it looked beautiful—spiraling auroras, cracked terrain latticed with veins of molten data, flickering anomalies threading the air like northern lights. But Zarek knew better. Beneath that beauty was a death zone—the first true Sovereign-claimed territory outside his own.And it belonged to Nyx Velora.Mission Objective: Infiltrate Solar BasinTarget: Sabotage Crown of Silence BeaconCrown Conflict: Active – Direct Confrontation PossibleZarek stood atop a modified aerial transport, wind carving across his face as the craft sliced through broken airspace. Below, Ghost Network drones zipped ahead, scanning for traps, surveillance nodes, or system agents.Ghost Drones Online: 45 Units Energy Reserves: 71% Crown Stability: Tier 1 – SolidHe reviewed the last report from the Hollow Thrones.Crown Holder Nyx Velora:Status: Fully Crowned, No Known Faction LoyaltySystem Alignment: Anti-Ghost, Silence Protoc
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Chapter 7Zarek didn’t wait for the first strike. He launched it.The crown pulsed behind him like a breathing heart of energy, anchoring itself to his system link. With every second it remained bonded, it fed him tiny fragments of control—of memory, of dominion. But it wasn’t enough to win. Not yet.Three Glitchborn heirs closed in fast.Zarek activated Flicker Chain—a rapid succession of short-range teleport bursts. He zipped left, reappeared high, twisted mid-air, and hurled a newly-formed Sigil Javelin at the brute with the cybernetic arms.New Skill: Sigil Javelin (Lv.1) – Created via Crown ResidueThe attack exploded mid-flight, sending shards of burning red code through the battlefield. The brute flinched, but didn’t fall. He roared, slammed his fists together, and launched forward with shockwaves pulsing from his boots.Zarek barely blinked in time.The shockwave cracked the terrain. His HUD spat errors from kinetic destabilization.Impact Force Detected: Tier 6 Right Leg Armo
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