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Chapter 173: The Man with the Broken Quill
The air split with a thunderous crack. Time paused, if only for a moment as the cloaked figure descended from the sky, his body shimmering with fractured pixels, his presence like a tear in the very narrative thread holding the world together.Cael blinked. The man stood tall, face obscured by a shifting hood, hands crackling with violet system code. One hand gripped a jagged object half a quill, its edge chipped, still dripping with ink that glowed like starlight.The System screamed. [ ALERT: SYSTEM-KILLER_001 CONFIRMED ][ WARNING: ENTITY HAS DESTROYED THREE SYSTEM REALITIES ][ INITIATING ANNIHILATION PROTOCOL… FAILED. OVERRIDE DETECTED. ]Cael’s alternate selves Laughing, Crying, and Dying backed away. Even they knew what this was. Something that didn’t belong. Something the System feared.The man’s voice was a whisper soaked in thunder. “You’re late,” he said.Cael stepped forward cautiously. “Who… are you?”The man didn’t answer right away. Instead, he tilted his head, analyzin
Chapter 172: Convergence of the Broken
The dimensional rift howled like a wounded beast. Three versions of Cael stepped through the portals, each one a different outcome of the same origin. The Laughing Cael wore royal armor, his smile wild and eyes empty, insanity masked as confidence. The Crying Cael was in tatters, kneeling, eyes hollow from loss too great to bear.The Dying Cael walked hunched, riddled with glowing cracks along his skin, coughing every few seconds, each breath closer to silence. Cael, the original, stood frozen. “What... are you?” he whispered.A single answer echoed from all three: “You, but rewritten.”The system interface buzzed violently above them:[ MULTI-DRAFT CONVERGENCE: 7% COMPLETE ][ PRIMARY IDENTITY UNDER EVALUATION… ][ ERROR: PARADOX DETECTED ]The Laughing Cael stepped forward, his boots clicking on invisible glass. His grin was infectious, sickening. “I killed them all, you know. Mira. Vale. Even that stubborn General. One by one. Just to see if I could.”Cael’s stomach turned. “You’re
Chapter 171: Versus the Shadow Author
Cael stared at the doppelgänger, his face, his build, his voice, twisted by arrogance and cruelty. Dark Cael smirked, stretching his fingers, each glowing with script-runes from the corrupted system. “Let’s skip the monologues,” the double said. “You know exactly who I am.”Cael braced himself. “I know who you’re not.” With a slash of his Sovereign Quill, he launched the first attack, golden glyphs roaring through the air like comet-tipped chains.But the Shadow Cael laughed. With a flick, he rewrote the laws of inertia Cael’s attacks spun away harmlessly. “I’m not bound by rules. I am the rules.”They clashed in midair, above a fragmented dimension of raw narrative. The battlefield bent with every swing. Each impact between them carved new arcs into the void: Cael’s quill burst with Will of the Witnessed, drawing strength from those who believed in him.Shadow Cael wielded Entropy of Forgotten Drafts, turning every lost hope into fuel. They fought with metaphors sharpened into blades
Chapter 170: When the Past Fights Back
The battlefield was silent. Ash from collapsed ideas floated like snow. Broken logic shards crunched underfoot. The Readers were gone, but the man standing before Cael wasn’t a remnant.He was the Original Author. Not a cosmic entity. Not an abstract force. Just a man. Wearing Cael’s face. Holding a pen that pulsed with paradox. “You think this story belongs to you?” he asked quietly.“You think power gives you authorship?”Cael gritted his teeth. “I earned every rewrite. Every change. Every survival. I became the story.”The Author nodded. “And now you’ll face the cost.” He struck the air with his pen no grand movement, no flashy gesture. Just a flick. Reality warped.Cael blinked, and he was ten years old, standing in a dingy apartment with peeling wallpaper, the smell of mildew thick in his nose. His mother sobbed in the kitchen. His father… gone. “What the hell is this?” Cael hissed, spinning.The Author appeared beside him unchanged, still adult, still smirking. “You rewrote the
Chapter 169: Echoes That Read Back
Cael stood at the edge of a rewritten battlefield. But something felt… off. The air buzzed not with electricity but with intent. As if the world was now conscious of him, observing him, reading him back. “The story’s looking at us,” Mira whispered.Nara’s hand tightened around her sword. “That’s impossible. It’s fiction.”Vale shook his head. “Not anymore. Cael broke the authorial seal.”Every breath Cael took triggered ripple effects, text bending around him like heat waves. Trees whispered plot points. The sky scrolled with half-finished subtext. Every step left behind a shadow of speculation.In a cavern far from the battlefield, ancient stone tablets cracked open. From them rose ethereal beings formed from curiosity, bias, and expectation, collectively known as The Readers. Not audience. Not fans.Critics. Observers. Speculators. Entitled minds who believed they knew how the story should go. “He diverged,” hissed one.“Unacceptable,” murmured another.“Rewrite him.”They moved ind
Chapter 168: Off-Script Sovereign
Cael opened his eyes. There was no sky. No ground. No air. Only narrative threads, billions of glowing lines twisting and unfurling into the void. They hummed with possibilities, some still forming, others long forgotten.He stood atop a moving sentence, literally. A phrase floated beneath his feet, bending to support him: "He refused to be erased."A voice surrounded him. “You are in the Draft Sea,” it said. “Where all untold stories drift.”It had no speaker. No gender. Just... Presence. Cael looked around and saw fragments of himself from discarded versions, brutal tyrants, broken heroes, hopeful fools. “What is this place?” he asked.The voice responded: “You are between revisions. Here, you are free.”Cael walked. Every step rearranged plot threads. He passed ghost characters who bowed in reverence. Some were villains given redemption arcs. Some were side characters who had never even received names. They whispered: “He’s the One Who Broke the Pen…”A glowing anvil appeared befor
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