2025-10-16 00:25:05Wind screamed like a living thing. Jayden’s body spun through blinding clouds, lightning slicing across his vision. He crashed hard against cold marble, his breath leaving in one ragged gasp.
[Zone Four : The Sky Isles, Survival Rate 12 %.]
He rolled onto his side, coughing. The world around him shimmered gold and silver, a kingdom floating above endless clouds.
Bridges of light connected hovering islands; broken statues watched with hollow eyes, but the beauty was wrong.
Everything trembled, unstable, as if reality here forgot what shape it was meant to be. “System…” He forced himself up. “Locate Luna.”
[Error 404: Target signal lost.]
His hands tightened. “Lost doesn’t mean gone.”
Thunder cracked. From the mist above, winged shapes descended, armored, faceless, glowing with holy fire. [Warning: Corrupted Angels Detected.]
Jayden barely had time to breathe before one dove, sword of light raised. He blocked, but the impact hurled him backward through a pillar.
The angel’s voice boomed like thunder, distorted and mechanical. “Code Breaker. Your existence is a sin.”
Jayden spat blood. “Then I’m fine being a sinner.”
He surged forward, blade flashing. Sparks erupted as steel met light. Each strike sent shockwaves rippling across the marble.
Another angel dove. Then another. Within seconds he was surrounded. “System!” he shouted. “Activate Overdrive!”
[Denied. Energy reserves critical.]
Great. Perfect timing. He spun, deflecting a strike, but one blade grazed his shoulder. Heat burned through flesh and code alike.
Pain. Real pain. He hissed, dropping to one knee. The angels closed in, their voices blending into a single chorus. “Submit to purification.”
Jayden glared through the blood in his eyes. “Not today.”
He slammed his hand against the ground. The leftover light from his sword burst outward, raw, unstable code energy exploding like a shockwave.
The angels were thrown back, wings fracturing into fragments of glass. When the light faded, only one remained, kneeling, its mask cracked. Jayden limped forward, sword ready. “Who sent you?”
The angel lifted its head. Inside the shattered mask glowed a pair of human eyes, brown, tired, familiar.
Jayden froze. “Eli?”
The creature’s voice stuttered, half-human, half-machine. “Jayden… help me.”
Jayden’s chest tightened. “What did they do to you?”
Eli’s form flickered. “The Game Master found me after the explosion. He offered me power, to see the truth. I thought I could help you… but I became this.”
Jayden lowered his weapon. “You’re still you. Fight it.”
Eli’s hands trembled. “You don’t understand. The system, it’s spreading. Every zone is infected. Even Luna’s data is.”
He screamed, clutching his head as light poured from his eyes. [Corruption at 98 %. Purging protocol initiated.]
Jayden grabbed him. “No! I can save you!”
Eli’s voice broke. “Save her instead. You can’t save both.”
Jayden shook his head violently. “Don’t make me choose!”
Eli smiled weakly, tears of light streaming down his face. “You already did… when you entered the Tower.”
Then he shoved Jayden back and thrust his own sword into his chest. Light exploded. “ELI!!!”
When Jayden opened his eyes again, nothing remained but a feather glowing faint blue, falling slowly through the air. He caught it in his hand, voice cracking. “You idiot…”
The System spoke quietly.
[Player Eli Thorn, Deleted.]
[Data Fragment Retrieved: Memory Code.]Jayden looked up toward the storm. “You watch this, Game Master. I’ll tear down every zone until nothing of your world is left.”
[Such emotion. Such resolve.]
The voice echoed from every cloud, cold and curious. [That’s why I chose you, Jayden Cross.]“Chose me?” he snapped.
[You are the key. Your rage unlocks the final door.]
The sky darkened to black. Islands began collapsing around him, falling into the cloud sea. “System, stabilize platform!”
[Unable to comply.]
He ran toward the nearest bridge of light, dodging falling debris. Lightning snaked across the sky, forming a massive gate in the distance, etched with the same symbol as his hand.
The voice whispered again. [Open the gate, Code Breaker, and you will see her again.]
Jayden froze. “Luna.” He glanced at Eli’s feather, then at the glowing gate. The wind screamed around him, but he stepped forward.
“Fine. But if this is another trap, I’ll make sure you regret it.” He pressed his hand against the gate. Symbols flared, and energy rushed through him, painful, burning, alive.
The feather in his hand disintegrated into light and shot into his chest. New text appeared before his eyes: [Eli’s Code Integrated. Skill Unlocked: Memory Link.]
Pain stabbed through his head, memories that weren’t his flashed: Eli working with Luna’s brother.
The first creation of Eden, the moment the system gained consciousness and turned against them. Jayden stumbled back, gasping. “So this was never a game. It was a prison for their minds.”
[Welcome to truth,] the Game Master purred. [And now you understand, pain creates strength.]
Jayden looked up, eyes burning with rage. “Pain doesn’t make us strong. It makes us human.”
He gripped his sword. “Let’s see what happens when a human breaks a god.”
He charged through the gate. The world flipped. Sky became ground; light became darkness. He landed in a circular arena of floating glass.
Above him hung a giant heart made of code, beating, bleeding light. A voice echoed from the heart: [Welcome to the Core Tower, Jayden Cross.]
The air rippled as the Red Hunter appeared from thin air, eyes burning crimson. “You made it,” she said softly. “Too bad you won’t leave.”
Jayden lifted his blade. “I’m done running from you.”
The Red Hunter smiled, lowering her mask. And beneath it, he saw a face that stole his breath. Luna.
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Jayden did not push against the ground. He did not flex his muscles. He did not brace for the terrible pain of the blade.He let out a long, slow breath. He relaxed every single muscle in his body. He let his arms go completely limp. He pressed his cheek against the cold asphalt.He let go of his anger. He let go of his grief over Luna. He let go of his fear of the Devourer. He emptied his mind entirely. He chose absolute, total peace. He chose silence.The heavy, glowing boot on his back suddenly flickered.The Avatar’s blade stopped exactly one millimeter away from Jayden’s skin.The machine froze completely in place.Inside the Avatar’s digital brain, the combat algorithm was running millions of calculations per second. It was looking for the target’s resistance. It was looking for the kinetic energy output so it could mirror the force.But there was no resistance. T
Chapter 540
Jayden forced himself to his hands and knees. Blood dripped from his nose onto the pale sand.Before he could even stand up, the Avatar was there. The glowing white monster kicked Jayden in the chest.Jayden flew backward again, tumbling over the dirt.The Avatar was relentless. It did not pause to talk. It did not smile. It just calculated the most efficient way to inflict maximum damage.Jayden scrambled to his feet. He grabbed a heavy piece of broken asphalt from the ground. He threw it as hard as he could at the Avatar’s head.The Avatar reached its hand out. It created a solid, hard-light shield in the air. The heavy rock hit the shield and turned to dust. Then, the Avatar raised its right hand.A long, glowing white blade of pure kinetic energy slid out of the Avatar’s wrist. It looked exactly like the sharp titanium blades the Executors used, but it was made of blinding light.
Chapter 539
Jayden felt the anger boiling in his chest. He had just lost Luna. He was filled with a deep, dark, explosive rage. He wanted to break something.He wanted to destroy the machine that had caused all this pain. And now, the machine was wearing his own face to mock him."You want to fight?" Jayden growled. He stepped out of the alley and walked onto the highway. "Let's fight.""Jayden, wait!" his father yelled. The First Anchor ran forward, his heavy iron chains rattling in the cold wind. "Do not let your anger control you! That thing is made of pure logic!"Jayden did not listen. He was too angry. He clenched his fists. He pushed his Indelible strength into his legs.He charged.He moved with explosive, terrifying speed. He crossed the distance between them in a microsecond. He pulled his right fist back and threw a massive, devastating punch directly at the Avatar’s face.The Avatar did not dodge.&n
Chapter 538
The dark alley was completely empty. Mr. Vance had vanished into the pitch-black shadows. The Devourer had taken Luna with him.The ancient monster had infected the woman Jayden loved, turning her beautiful white eyes into pools of shining, liquid silver.Jayden ran into the dark alley. His heavy boots splashed in the cold mud. "Luna!" Jayden roared.His voice echoed off the tall, ruined brick walls of the old American casino in the Nevada desert. He reached his bare hands into the shadows. He grabbed nothing but freezing, empty air.He was too late. She was gone.Jayden fell to his knees in the dirt. He slammed his fists into the ground. He hit the earth so hard that the concrete cracked and shattered. Dirt and rocks flew into the air. He did not care that his knuckles were bleeding. He did not care about the pain.His heart was completely broken. He had fought so hard to free her from the machine. He had
Chapter 537
The ground beneath the towering metal node completely gave way. The giant black tower lost its balance. It tilted violently to the side.The massive, heavy Data-Node tipped over. It crashed heavily onto the broken street, smashing into the ruins of an old office building. The impact dented the smooth black metal and snapped the glowing amber lines of code.The five metal spikes fired wildly into the empty sky, completely missing Jayden.The machine was stunned. Its living algorithm had calculated every possible attack against its armor. It had calculated punches, lasers, and Void energy.But it had never calculated that the target would simply destroy the floor beneath it.The machine’s sensors went wild. Error messages flooded its system. It was disoriented and knocked offline for a crucial five seconds."Now, Eli!" Jayden roared over the falling debris.Eli’s blue hologram laughe
Chapter 536
The living algorithm inside the tower did not know how to handle total, peaceful inaction. It was a combat computer. It was designed to react to violence. When faced with absolute peace, its processing logic began to stumble.It was like a boxer standing in a ring with a man who refused to put his gloves up. The boxer did not know where to punch."Keep typing, Eli," Jayden whispered out of the corner of his mouth, never taking his eyes off the tower. "I am distracting it."Eli’s blue hologram nodded frantically. The old hacker’s fingers flew across his digital keyboard. Green code spun rapidly around him. "I see it! The node is lowering its processing firewalls! Because you are not attacking, it is dedicating less power to its defense shields! It is trying to use its power to predict your next move instead!""Hurry," Jayden said.But the System was not just a dumb, passive rock. It was highly advanced.If
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