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CHAPTER 346. RESONANCE TRAINING
Oliver Beckett woke to the soft hum of the infirmary lights. His body felt heavy, as if the swamp mud from Zone 05 still clung to him. The faint silver lines pulsed under his skin like threads of living metal. He sat up slowly.Iris was asleep in the chair next to his bed again, her hand still wrapped around his wrist. She must have stayed the entire night.Billy sat nearby eating chips, eyes glued to the door like he expected trouble.Sergeant Holt leaned against the far wall, arms crossed, studying Oliver with a look that mixed concern and something like disappointment. Oliver swallowed. “I’m awake.”Billy jumped. “Finally! I was starting to plan your funeral snacks.”Iris startled awake, blinking hard. When she saw Oliver sitting upright, her eyes flooded with relief. “Don’t ever scare me like that again.”Oliver offered a weak smile. “I’ll try.”But his voice was hoarse, and his chest still ached from the regeneration overload. Holt stepped forward, face stern.“What happened in
CHAPTER 345. RARE MONSTERS
Oliver Beckett stood in the middle of the training hall, the lights humming overhead. His breathing was steady, but inside, he felt anything except calm. His skin still carried faint silver lines from the Reality Anchor, and every movement felt sharper, heavier, more aware.Billy watched him with folded arms. Iris hovered near the wall, her fingers tapping anxiously against her wristband. Sergeant Holt paced back and forth like a restless wolf. Then the System chimed, softly, but with weight.[ADVANCED ZONE ACCESS UNLOCKED][NEW CATEGORY AVAILABLE: RARE BEASTS][WARNING: RARE BEASTS ARE ECHOES OF FALLEN TRAVELERS]Oliver’s eyes widened. “Fallen travelers,? What does that mean?”Holt stopped pacing. His expression hardened. “It means the next Zone won’t be a normal simulation. It’ll be a graveyard.”Iris swallowed. “And the monsters, are they,? You mean they were.”“Once human,” Holt finished quietly. “Or close to it.”A cold chill ran through the room. Billy muttered, “Why is your l
CHAPTER 344. THRESHOLD
Oliver Beckett felt the world bend before he ever stepped into the new Zone. He didn’t activate anything. He didn’t call the interface. He didn’t even blink, and yet the air around him rippled like someone had grabbed the edges of reality and tugged.His vision blurred. Then the System spoke, its voice calm but colder than usual:[ZONE 10 ACCESS GRANTED][NO MISSION PARAMETERS][NO TIMER][OBJECTIVE UNKNOWN]Oliver whispered, “This, this is wrong.”He stood in the academy training hall, but iris-colored cracks spread under his feet, splitting reality like thin sheets of glass. Light leaked upward from the cracks, forming a pillar around him. “Oliver!” Iris shouted from behind. She reached for him, too late. The light swallowed him whole.Oliver stumbled forward into complete silence. No sky. No ground. Just endless starlit darkness stretching in all directions, like he was floating through a universe that hadn’t been finished yet.Soft, slow breathing seemed to echo around him, not
CHAPTER 343. INTERFERENCE
The next morning, Oliver Beckett knew something was wrong before he even opened his eyes.His System interface pulsed above his vision, glitching quietly like it had caught a cold.[NoTiFiCaTiOn ErR0r]He blinked hard. The message split into three copies. Two copies vanished. One remained, half gibberish, half command.[Request: Incomplete, syncing to ADMINISTRATOR HAYES]Oliver’s breath caught. “Administrator, Hayes?” he whispered.He didn’t recognize the name. But the System should never send anything meant for someone else. His heart raced. “What is happening to you?”The System flickered again.[Administrator Hayes, progress observed]Oliver sat up so fast he nearly fell off the bed. “This is not normal,” Iris said from the doorway.He gasped, he hadn’t even heard her enter. “I was calling your name for five minutes,” she said, voice tight. “You were staring at nothing.”Oliver rubbed his eyes. “The System, it’s sending messages that aren’t for me.”Iris stepped closer. “Show me.”
CHAPTER 342. THE TEACHER’S SHADOW
The morning air felt colder than usual, as if the academy itself sensed someone important had arrived. Oliver Beckett stood beside Iris and Billy at the edge of the courtyard, watching Headmistress Kael walk toward them with a man none of them had ever seen before.He looked nothing like the instructors they knew. He wore a dark, weathered coat marked by old burns, cuts, and patches from distant places. A metal band wrapped around one wrist, glowing faintly with System-light. His face was scarred, not brutally, but in the way someone who had survived many battles carried their past. His eyes were calm, too calm, like he was already measuring everything in sight.Kael stopped in front of the group. “This is Sergeant Holt,” she announced. “Traveler veteran. He is here to evaluate and mentor your unit.”Billy leaned close to Oliver and whispered, “He looks like someone who wrestles Rift beasts in his free time.”Holt’s eyes snapped to Billy instantly, though Billy had barely made a so
CHAPTER 341. Artifacts and Echoes
The infirmary lights were too bright. Oliver Beckett sat at the edge of the bed, the white sheets rustling quietly as he moved. His right arm was still wrapped in stabilizing bands, humming softly as they regulated the flow of residual energy through his veins.Across the room, Iris sat up on her own bed, her hair a mess, her skin pale but alive. She was tracing faint patterns on her arm, thin, glowing veins that still pulsed with light from the shared heartbeat.Neither of them had spoken for several minutes. The silence felt heavier than exhaustion. Finally, Iris broke it.“Kael’s going to kill us.”Oliver gave a small, tired laugh. “Not before she dissects me first.”“Not funny,” Iris said, but the corner of her mouth twitched.Oliver looked at her, his expression softening. “How’s your chest?”“It hurts,” she admitted. “But it’s beating.” She paused. “Still feels strange, though. Like I can feel you somewhere in the rhythm. Every few seconds.”He hesitated. “Yeah. I can feel it t
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