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This Avatar was an upgraded version. It was connected to the massive black obelisk by a thick power cable. It was receiving constant, live updates. It had a massive, open diagnostic port glowing on its side, exactly where the cable plugged into its ribs. If he just stood still, the machine would not break. It had infinite energy from the tower. It would simply complete the execution protocol and cut his head off. He could not fight it. He could not outrun it. He could not ignore it. Jayden closed his eyes. "The System is a machine," Jayden whispered to himself in the quiet, bloody dark of his own mind. "It only understands math. It only understands resistance. It calculates force."If you push a wall, the wall pushes back. But what happens if you push a cloud? What happens to a machine that is calculating a million pounds of explosive kinetic force, and suddenly receives... nothing? In the middle of the brutal, terrifying onslaught, Jayden made the most difficult choice a warrior
Chapter 545
Jayden screamed. The force of the blow lifted him completely off his feet. He flew backward through the air and crashed heavily into the side of an old, rusted car. The metal car bent completely in half around his body. Jayden fell to the dirt, coughing violently. Hot, red human blood spilled from his lips onto the white snow. "Jayden!" Eli yelled from the silver flask in Arthur’s hands. "It is connected to the node! You cannot out-punch it! Every time you hit it, it feeds the data back to the tower! The tower calculates the math and sends back a stronger, faster attack! It has infinite energy!"Jayden pushed himself up to his hands and knees. He wiped the blood from his mouth. He looked at the Avatar. The glowing white monster was walking slowly toward him. The thick black cable dragged on the asphalt behind it like a snake. Jayden knew Eli was right. If he punched the machine with one hundred pounds of force, the machine would absorb it, learn from it, and punch him back with tw
Chapter 544
"An update?" Maya asked, taking a step backward. "It is sending a patch!" Eli screamed over the roaring wind. "It saw how you defeated the first Avatar! It learned from its mistake! It is sending a new one!"From the blinding white light of the portal, a heavy, solid boot stepped out onto the cracked asphalt. The sound was incredibly heavy. It shook the ground. A figure stepped out of the light. It looked exactly like Jayden. It had the same torn grey coat. It had the same dark, messy hair. It had the same pale pink scars on its face. But this copy was completely terrifying. Its eyes were solid, glowing, robotic white. But that was not the worst part. This new Avatar was not just made of hard-light. It was physically connected to the real world. Trailing behind the Avatar was a thick, heavy, black power cable. The cable ran from the back of the Avatar’s neck all the way to the giant, ruined black obelisk lying in the dirt nearby. When Jayden had crushed the ground and knocked t
Chapter 543
The cold wind howled across the dark, cracked asphalt of the Nevada desert. Jayden stood completely frozen. His breath caught in his throat. He stared at the old, scarred man kneeling on the ground. He stared at his own father. Just a moment ago, his father had been a brave, strong man swinging heavy iron chains to protect him. But now, the old man’s plain blue eyes were gone. They were replaced by swirling, shining, liquid silver mercury. A polite, terrifying smile stretched across the old man’s face. "Did you really think I would leave my favorite toy unattended?" Mr. Vance whispered. The voice belonged to the ancient Devourer, but it was coming out of his father’s mouth. Jayden felt his heart shatter into a million tiny pieces. He had fought so hard to save his father from the dark cage under the earth. And now, the monster had taken him. The Devourer had infected the First Anchor. "Vance," Jayden gasped. His voice shook with absolute horror. "Get out of his head. Let him go
Chapter 542
"I am scanning the global network now," Eli said, his rough voice full of urgency. "Vance is moving fast. He is using the magical wires to travel through the physical world.""Where is he going?" Maya asked, looking nervous. "Did he go back down to the Core?"Eli frowned. He stopped typing. His blue hologram went completely pale. "No," Eli whispered. He looked at Jayden with eyes wide with absolute dread. "He didn't go underground. He went to the surface.""Where?" Jayden demanded, stepping closer to the flask."He took her to the Midwest," Eli said slowly. "He took her to the most heavily populated area left in America. He took her to the Sanctuary in Chicago."Jayden’s heart hammered in his chest.Chicago. The Sanctuary. It was a massive, walled city where millions of normal, uninfected humans were hiding. They had built huge physical walls to keep the magic out. They thought they were safe from the System."
Chapter 541
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
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