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Chapter 194
The air in Times Square was so cold it hurt to breathe.The white fog rolled over the broken street, covering the flipped yellow taxi cabs and the shattered glass. The fog came from the man in the grey suit. Mr. Vance. His silver, empty eyes locked onto Jayden.Jayden was still on his knees. His mind was a war zone. The golden System screens in front of his face were frozen. They flashed the words: FATAL ERROR: THE DEVOURER HAS ENTERED THE LOCAL FIELD."You woke me up," Mr. Vance said again. His voice was smooth, polite, and completely empty of any human feeling. "And I am very hungry."Mr. Vance took a slow step forward. The concrete street under his shiny leather shoes instantly turned into thick, white ice. The freezing cold pushed into the crowd.Behind Jayden, the thousands of people began to shiver violently.Leo, the young man in the front row, wrapped his arms around himself. His teeth chattered loudly. "It's... it's so cold," Leo whispered. His breath came out in thick white
Chapter 193
CRACK.With a sound like a glass window shattering into a million pieces, Luna exploded.She did not hurt anyone. She just turned into a cloud of tiny, glowing white butterflies made of light. The butterflies swirled around Jayden once, and then they all rushed into his chest. They sank deep into his heart, returning to his base code to hide and heal.Jayden was left kneeling on the street. He was completely alone in his own mind. For years, Luna had always been a voice in his head. She had warned him of danger. She had kept him company. Now, it was just total, empty silence.But the silence only lasted for one second.BEEEEEEP.A massive, deafening alarm rang inside Jayden’s brain. It was so loud it made his teeth vibrate.In front of his eyes, his normal blue System screens popped open. But they were not blue anymore.They were a bright, blinding, terrifying gold.SYSTEM ALERT, the golden letters read.USER 'JAYDEN' HAS ACHIEVED MAXIMUM INFLUENCE THRESHOLD.LOCAL NETWORK OVERRIDE DE
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Many people in the crowd began to lower their heads. Some of the tough men in the back, who had brought metal pipes and chains to watch the fight, slowly let their weapons drop. Clang. Clatter. The metal hit the street. They felt a deep shame in their hearts. Jayden’s words were simple, but they cut deeper than any knife.They felt the warmth of his truth. They felt the empathy.But the world is never that simple. Not everyone wants to be saved. Not everyone wants to let go of their anger.Suddenly, a loud, angry voice broke the beautiful silence."You are a liar!"A man pushed his way to the front of the crowd. His name was David. He was a big, heavy man with a thick beard. He wore a dirty leather jacket. His right eye was completely white and blind from an old fight. David held a heavy iron wrench in his hand. He pointed the wrench at Jayden."You are a liar, Halo!" David screamed. He was shaking with rage. Spit flew from his lips. "You stand there with your magic healing blood and
Chapter 191
The cold wind blew hard off the Hudson River. It swept through the dark, broken streets of New York City. It carried the smell of old rain, burnt rubber, and wet concrete.In the middle of Broadway, the famous street was ruined. Yellow taxi cabs were flipped upside down. The glass from their windows covered the road like a blanket of cheap diamonds. High above, a giant digital billboard flickered. It was broken, flashing a bright, blinding white light every few seconds.Under that flashing light stood Jayden.He was a terrible sight to see. His dark coat was ripped into shreds. His shirt was soaked in his own blood. His face was covered in dark bruises and deep cuts. For the last hour, he had taken the worst beating of his life. He had been crushed by gravity. He had been punched with kinetic energy. He had been hit so many times his bones had turned to dust inside his body.But he was still standing.Around him, a massive crowd of New Yorkers watched in absolute silence. There were t
Chapter 190
"The network..." Luna stammered. Her jaw flickered and glitched. "The global network... it is deep. So deep. I can see the bottom.""Caelum is at the top," Jayden said, trying to understand."No," Luna said. A chunk of her shoulder disappeared into static ash. "No, Jayden. Caelum is not at the top. Caelum is just... a door. A lid."Jayden frowned. "A lid? Keeping what inside?"Luna’s hands squeezed his core tighter. "Something else is feeding on the System resonance. The energy from the violence, the pain, the fighting that Caelum forces on the world... Caelum isn't keeping the power. He is feeding it downward."Jayden felt a cold chill run down his spine. "Feeding it to what?""Something older," Luna whispered. The horror in her voice made Jayden’s blood run cold. "Something much, much older than the Prime System. It is sleeping underneath the code of the world. And Jayden... it is so hungry."Jayden looked up at the sky. He had always thought Caelum was the ultimate evil. Caelum was
Chapter 189
A loud, piercing sound cut through the humming of the sky. It sounded like an old dial-up internet modem, mixed with the sound of shattering glass.The crowd gasped and took a step back.Right in front of Jayden, the empty air began to fold in on itself. Bright blue electricity sparked from the broken streetlamps. The sparks jumped into the middle of the street, spinning into a tall, glowing pillar of light.Leo covered his eyes. The light was blinding. "What is that?!" he yelled.Martha pointed a shaking finger. "An angel," the old woman whispered.The pillar of light took shape.A foot stepped onto the cracked pavement. Then a leg. Then a body.Luna descended into the real world.She was partially manifested. She was visible to everyone. She was not made of flesh and bone. She was made of solid, bright white light, falling green numbers, and grey TV static. Her long hair floated around her head as if she were underwater. Her eyes were solid white, glowing with intense power.But she
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