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Chapter 192
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
Chapter 188
The cold, robotic voice fell from the dark sky over New York City. It echoed off the broken glass of the tall skyscrapers. It shook the empty, yellow taxi cabs left ruined on the streets."FORTY-FIVE SECONDS TO DELETION."In the center of the famous street known as Broadway, right in the middle of Times Square, Jayden fell to his knees. The giant digital billboards above him were dark and broken. The only light came from the massive glowing dome of energy that covered the street, and from Jayden himself.He was burning.The heat inside his chest was not normal fire. It was pure, raw System data. It was the feelings, the pain, and the heartbeats of the thousands of people standing around him. He had given them his power to protect them from Caelum's cruel soldiers. The people had felt his empathy, and their own soft, glowing Proto-Systems had awakened.But humans were not meant to be servers. A human brain could not hold the weight of a thousand minds.Jayden’s skin began to crack. Dee
Chapter 187
Right beside Jayden, a figure made of white noise and glitching light appeared. It was Luna.Luna usually looked calm and neat. Her artificial face was usually perfectly smooth. But right now, her avatar was violently shaking. Her digital hair was flying everywhere. Her eyes were wide with pure, absolute panic.She looked up at the glowing dome. She looked at the thousands of connected people. Then, she looked at Jayden."Jayden!" Luna screamed. Her voice sounded distorted, like a broken radio. "Jayden, snap out of it! You need to look at me right now!"Jayden turned his head slowly. He felt incredibly peaceful. "Luna. Look at what they did. Look at what we built.""I am looking at the data, Jayden!" Luna yelled. She waved her hands. Floating red screens of raw code appeared in the air around her. The code was scrolling so fast it was just a blur. "And you don't understand what is happening!""They are safe," Jayden said softly. "The field is protecting them. Caelum’s power can't reac
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