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Chapter 184
The lake had been quiet for days. Sunlight glinted on its surface, scattering across smooth stones and whispering reeds. Oliver stood ankle-deep in the water, letting the ripple of the current pull softly at his boots. His reflection stared back at him, clear-eyed, steady, no longer just a player, not quite a god.Mina sat nearby beneath a willow tree, sketching. Charcoal streaked her fingers. Her face was more relaxed than he’d ever seen it.For the first time in weeks, nothing chased them. No systems spoke. No monsters screamed.Peace was new. Uncomfortable. And brief. A ripple passed through the air. A shift. Not local. Not system-driven. Cosmic.Oliver raised his head. He felt it in his spine. Not sound. Not light. Not pressure. Something beneath all of that.Mina looked up. “You feel that too?”He nodded slowly. “Something old just woke up.”By nightfall, it was visible in the sky, a slow dark tear bleeding golden dust. It hovered just above the horizon, unmoving, unnatural. The
Chapter 183
The wind moved gently over the hill. It carried a strange kind of music, soft, broken, but not empty. The world was singing again. But this time, it wasn’t a song of control or perfect rhythm. It was wild. It was alive. Like fire.Oliver stood alone on the crest of that hill where the Dissonant Spire once stood tall and sharp against the sky. Now, there was nothing but soft air and flickering sound. The tower was gone, shattered into pieces too small to see. All that remained were little echoes, like whispers made of light, floating gently through the sky like dust from stars.He closed his eyes and listened. Behind him, Mina leaned against the trunk of a silver tree. The bark looked smooth and clean, like the system’s code had been scrubbed off it.There were no status markers, no glowing lines, no controls. It was just a tree now.Mina picked up a small stone and tossed it into the wind. Instead of falling, it hovered in the air for a moment, then faded into glowing strands of lig
Chapter 182
The world could not hold the sound anymore. The sky above cracked open. The Spire, once tall and proud, had broken apart. Pieces of black stone floated in the air like ash. Strange melodies drifted through the air, soft and haunting. There was no wind. No gravity. Only rhythm. Time and space felt wrong.Two figures stood on a floating piece of broken stone. It spun slowly in the strange sky. One of them was Oliver Beckett. He looked tired but strong. His eyes burned like fire. The Forbidden Verse still lived inside him. Flames danced around his heart, and shadows crawled under his skin.Across from him stood Arcanon Veres. He didn’t look human. His body was made of glowing lines and silver shapes. He looked like he was built by music itself. He held a staff that hummed with power. He was a servant of order, a protector of the old system.They said nothing at first. Then, the air pulsed. A message echoed from the system:Duel Initiated: Divine TierStatus: Reality Instability Rising
Chapter 181
The Spire didn’t appear on any map. No one spoke of it. No one dared. It rose from the broken earth like a scream turned into stone, tall, black, and twisted. Its tower spiraled like a corkscrew, pointing straight at the sky’s deepest crack. Around it, the world shimmered. Colors bent. The air buzzed. Even the wind felt wrong, like it blew in reverse.Oliver Vale stood at the base of the Spire. His boots crunched on dry, cracked soil. Mina stood beside him, her hands glowing faintly with harmonic energy. Brael stood on her other side, gripping his halberd tightly. They had walked miles to get here, through ruined cities, dead zones, and system-warped wastelands.Now, they stood in front of the final place. And it was waiting.System NoticeLocation: The Dissonant SpireStatus: Temporal Instability. Linear Progression SuspendedWarning: Sound, Memory, and Form May Not Match IntentBrael frowned. He looked up at the twisting tower. “I don’t like this,” he said. His voice was low, tens
Chapter 180
The sun was red and low in the sky, almost gone. It looked sick, like it was bleeding into the clouds. The light it cast stretched long across the broken ground behind them.Oliver collapsed near the Vault’s ruined entrance, his legs finally giving out. He fell hard onto his hands and knees. Ash drifted from his shoulders like dust shaken from old bones.His breath came in ragged, static-filled gasps. It was like trying to breathe through wires. His head throbbed, eyes flickering with strange red symbols only he could see.System Alert: Echo Devourer, ACTIVE Hunger: [73%] Self-Regulation: WEAKENED Potential Targets Detected: 3Oliver blinked and looked up. Three shapes stood in front of him. One was Mina, face pale and worried. The second was Brael, blood running down his arm. The third was… something else.A crawling figure, broken and twisted, was dragging itself out from the Vault’s shattered door. It wasn’t human. It was an echo, a failed remnant of some player long gone.And
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The Vault wasn’t hidden. It dared to be seen. Massive black pillars jutted from the red soil like broken teeth. Dark energy spiraled up into the cracked sky, forming a cyclone of screaming whispers.At the center, an obsidian gate pulsed, chained shut with sigils that looked like they bled sound. “Devourants,” Brael said, raising his halberd. “Guardians bred to feed on chords.”Four of them emerged, hulking, armor-bound monsters with glowing mouths where eyes should be. They moved on all fours, their movements disturbingly smooth.Oliver stepped forward.System Alert: Divine Combat Zone InitiatedEnemies: Devourant Guardians (Tier 3.5)Zone Modifier: Chord Suppression -25% / Devour +15%Strategy: Overwhelm with Burst Phase DamageHe didn’t wait. With a yell, he activated both his Flamebound Key and Breaker’s Verse.Blue fire and jagged red light collided, spiraling around his blade. He surged forward, leaping straight into the chest of the first Devourant. His blade sunk deep, but t
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