2025-07-14 13:21:18Chapter 6
Zarek Voss stood alone in the silent ruin of what had once been Sector 7’s industrial grid. The battle with Kalen had collapsed his core structure—both physically and mentally. He’d seen things inside that trial space he couldn’t yet explain. Glimpses. Futures. Echoes of thrones built on void. And now, something ancient was awake inside him. Trait Active: Code Sovereign (Seeded) Thronecode Layer 1 – Unlocked Bloodline: Azerion – Verified Lineage Connection: Fragmented / Corrupted His fingers trembled as he stared at the new interface menu. It wasn’t like the others. It didn’t have icons or upgrade trees. It breathed. As if alive. His entire system felt more sentient, more reactive—as if it were waiting for him to issue a command beyond logic. Warning: Accessing Thronecode Layers may trigger Sovereign Beacons. Risk Level: Zeta-Prime He closed the warning. He didn’t need more threats—he needed clarity. Zarek limped through the ash fields of Zone 9. His coat dragged behind him, scorched and cut. His energy reserves were dangerously low. The Sigil had entered cooldown, and his Phase Edge was barely holding cohesion. But the quiet gave him space to think. What did Kalen mean by “other heirs”? How many were there? How far had the System let this corruption go before losing control? He passed by an old data-tower ruin. Its screens were dead. Its sensors blind. But something in it pulsed faintly—a flicker in the corner of his vision. Zarek paused. /Scan: Passive Interference Signal Detected Hidden File Structure Present – Access Locked He approached the terminal and placed a hand on the broken interface. Godroot Override – Manual Link Established Decrypting: 12%... 54%... Complete The screen flickered to life. A recording. A woman’s face appeared. Not human—something in her eyes shimmered wrong. Her voice was soft, clipped, mechanical but emotional. “—to whoever survives long enough to find this: if you’re hearing me, then another Throne Heir has awakened. That means the System failed. Again.” Static. “We tried to contain Azerion. Failed. We tried to bury the code. Failed. Now you’re next. And this time... they’ll send the Crown Hunters.” Message Ended Zarek blinked. “Crown Hunters?” Before he could think further, his interface lit up red. System Event Triggered: Ghost Crown Beacon Detected Coordinates: Active Zone – Ravenspire Ruins Time Limit: 06:00:00 Quest Unlocked: Crown of Ghosts Objective: Reach the Beacon before other Heirs do Warning: PvP Territory Engaged Zarek’s hands clenched. The race had begun. Two hours later, he stood on the outskirts of Ravenspire. It was worse than he expected. The ruins were crawling with rogue systems—half-sentient code beasts, failed AI nodes, and broken mechs possessed by corrupted firmware. Glitch-twisted terrain warped the laws of physics. Time looped in pulses. Voices whispered backward through the air. He activated Static Veil, crouched low, and began his descent into the zone. Halfway down the crater, he saw the beacon. A pulsing pillar of blue-white energy stretching into the sky, anchored by a throne-shaped construct carved from fragmented data shards. It floated above nothing. And he wasn’t alone. Three figures circled it from different angles. All wearing armor unlike anything in the System’s database. /Scan Failed – Error: No Identifier Tags Glitchborn Class: Confirmed Bloodline: Unknown Threat Estimate: Equal or Higher One figure stepped forward. A woman. Her skin shimmered silver, eyes completely black, veins pulsing with code. “You’re late,” she said to Zarek. Her voice echoed in his mind. “We thought you’d be the first.” “I didn’t know I was invited,” Zarek replied coldly. Another figure—a massive man with spiked cybernetic arms—laughed. “We’re all invited, Sovereign. We just didn’t all survive to RSVP.” Zarek's grip tightened on his blade. System Alert: PvP Zone Active Rules Suspended. Death = Core Fragment Loss Objective Updated: Claim the Beacon or Kill Other Heirs The woman smiled. “Let’s see what kind of god you really are, glitch.” Zarek moved first. He activated Voidstep + Sigil Reap Prep, launching himself toward the throne while sending phantom echoes in three directions. The woman dashed after him, weaving through terrain, her movements flickering. The brute roared and slammed into the side, collapsing a hill of broken tech with his fists. Zarek reached the beacon’s edge and slammed his palm into the interface. Accessing Ghost Crown... Signature Detected: Godroot – Partial Lineage Confirmed Crown Bonding: Initiated Pain. It wasn’t physical. It was identity-level. Every memory, every system link, every particle of who he was was being scanned and evaluated. Bloodline: Azerion – Fragmented Key Found Authorization Level: Incomplete Status: Crowned... Temporarily The pillar dimmed. The three Glitchborn froze. Zarek turned. “I own it now.” The brute snarled. “Not for long.” They charged. And Zarek, newly crowned, smiled.
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Chapter 12 The entire chamber groaned beneath the pressure of the system-breaking presence. Zarek’s eyes locked onto the figure emerging from the void like it was being carved out of reality itself.Entity Detected: Crown Hunter Unit Ω – Reap.exeThreat Level: Ω-Red (Auto-Eradication Protocols Engaged)Objective: Sovereign Termination – Priority ClassCrown Sync Disruption Probability: 87%It was huge. A towering juggernaut of shifting metal, black glass, and blood-red algorithmic light. Its joints hissed like grinding tectonic plates, and its single eye scanned the chamber with perfect focus. In its right hand, a blade longer than Zarek was tall—serrated with glowing inscriptions—each line a Sovereign it had killed."Fallback to Ghost Protocol now," Zarek muttered. “Nyx—engage Silence Field Alpha.”Nyx nodded sharply, a rare flicker of urgency breaking her usual calm. She raised her hand, channeling her Crown’s core into the chamber. The light bent and warped as silence swallowed th
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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 9Zarek stood in the fading haze of the battlefield, still bathed in the residual hum of the Ghost Crown’s authority. The scorched air, the broken terrain, and the scattered remains of shattered mechs told the story of a war he’d barely survived—and one that had only just begun.Status: Sovereign – Crowned Faction Invitation: The Hollow Thrones – PendingHe stared at the blinking prompt in his interface.There was no dossier. No intel. No background logs. Just a direct request stamped with an access level he’d never seen before—Tier Zeta Clearance. The kind of clearance reserved for system architects, ancient rulers, or... ghosts.Invitation Received: The Hollow Thrones Faction Status: Off-Grid / Origin Unknown Sovereign-Bound Entry OnlyZarek exhaled and tapped ACCEPT.The world disappeared in a pulse of blinding white.When it faded, he stood in a void that wasn’t truly empty. The space around him was layered—fractals of broken thrones floated in suspended stasis, ancient si
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Chapter 8Zarek descended from the beacon’s platform slowly, his boots scraping against the fractured glassstone that shimmered with the residual energy of his Crown Bonding. The Ghost Crown pulsed faintly at the back of his skull, a presence both empowering and terrifying. It wasn’t just a weapon—it was a responsibility. A throne for a king the world wasn’t ready for.Status: Ghost Crown (Tier 1) – Active Control Radius: 12km Sovereign Trait: Ghost Network – Passive AI Command Protocol (Beta)As he walked, dozens of long-dormant drones shifted into motion around him, their core lights flickering to life. Machines that had lain buried for years stirred in the soil, ready to obey.He should have felt victorious.But the system wouldn’t let him rest.System Alert: Incoming Threat Identified – Class: CROWN HUNTER ETA: 02:17:56 Warning: Threat Level – LETHALZarek frowned. “So they sent the assassins already.”He returned to the beacon’s edge, where the control field allowed him to manipu
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