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Chapter 178: The Timeline Where I Never Was
Cael stood in the empty street of a rewritten Sector One, the sky above colored in greyscale, like the world had lost its saturation without him. “System…” he whispered. “Where the hell am I?”A prompt buzzed across his vision: [ VARIANT-06: “MIRA’S REIGN” ] [ NOTE: SUBJECT CAEL MERCER — NEVER BORN. ]His hands trembled. There were no markers. No signs. No hints of the allies he’d made. His influence, fame, infamy it was all wiped clean.This was a reality where he had never existed. And yet, he was the only anomaly now walking its streets. “Guess this is what erasure feels like.”He passed through neighborhoods that should have remembered him, children he’d protected, merchants he’d saved, but their gazes passed through him like he was a shadow.At the edge of the square, a massive statue stood, an obsidian monolith, the figure unmistakable. Mira. Clad in system-forged armor, red cloak billowing, Spire raised to the sky.Inscribed beneath: THE FIRST ARCHITECT — ORDER THROUGH SACRIFIC
Chapter 177: Echoes and Errors
“Mira…” Cael whispered her name like a prayer as he stood over her. Her eyes once filled with that fierce defiance, now held only glassy confusion.She looked right through him “Who… are you?”The Echo of Mira stepped forward, face grim. “The rewrite worked. She’s alive. But her memories are fragmented, scattered like deleted files. It wasn’t a full resurrection. More like… a hard reset.”Cael’s knuckles turned white on the Spire. “So how do we get them back?”The Echo didn’t answer Instead, she handed him a Memory Shard, shimmering with crimson ink. “One by one. But every shard you give back will cost you, more of your own memories, your influence, your status. The system doesn’t allow two souls to remember what’s already been erased.”Cael didn’t hesitate. “Then let’s pay.”Far above, in the Central Control Hall of Rewrite HQ, Joran leaned back as he watched Cael’s desperate gamble unfold on a dozen screens. “He really thinks this is a redemption arc.”The advisors stood behind him
Chapter 176: Author of War
The inkstorm howled In the center of it stood Cael. No longer a glitch. No longer a pawn. Not quite a man. He was a paradox now, a rewritten soul dragged back into existence by the sacrifice of someone who no longer existed in the world’s memory.Mira was gone. But her blood soaked the Author’s Spire. Cael held it tight, and something within him burned.[ NEW USER RECOGNIZED ][ ACCESS LEVEL: CREATOR MODE- LOCKED PARTIALLY ][ WARNING: UNSTABLE INTEGRATION. SIDE EFFECTS UNKNOWN. ]He could feel the world pressing against him, every page, every decision, every weight Mira carried. And now, he would carry it.A voice rose from the ink. Cold. Commanding. “Unauthorized resurrection detected. Protagonist slot already filled. Prepare for deletion.”Three figures stepped forward. The Inquisitors of Canon. Clad in obsidian armor etched with gold narrative lines, they looked like sculptures carved from story itself. Each wielded a “Red Pen” a blade that erased memory on contact.“Cael Mercer.
Chapter 175: The Ink Rebellion
Mira stood alone in the collapsing Rewrite Layer. The quill-The Author’s Spire-trembled in her palm, still warm from Cael’s fading touch. The white void had gone silent, but its silence was not peaceful. It was the hush before a scream, the breath before a universe unraveling.She wasn’t ready. But the story no longer cared.[ SYSTEM STABILITY: 5% ][ ANCHOR ASCENSION PROTOCOL: INCOMPLETE ][ THREAT DETECTED: USER “MIRA ELEN” HOLDS RESTRICTED OBJECT ]Above her, the sky began bleeding ink black words raining like a storm of meaning and memory. And then… The system retaliated. A new figure descended.Tall. Robed in obsidian. A face hidden behind a mask shaped like an hourglass. Lines of code etched across his chest like scars. “Return the pen,” he said. “You are unfit to wield it.”Mira raised her chin. “I rewrote myself. I remember everything.”“Then you also remember what happens to failed authors.”He struck without warning. A single flick of his hand, and Mira was blasted back by a
Chapter 174: The Rewrite War
There was no ground. No sky. Only endless white, as if the universe had exhaled its last breath and left them standing in the blank page that remained.Cael stood at the center, broken quill in hand, his heart thundering. Beside him was the other Cael, the smiling one. But this Cael was… different.No scars. No pain behind the eyes. Dressed not in battle gear but in a long coat made of written paragraphs and fading metaphors. He looked at Cael like a proud older brother, one who had read every chapter of his life and still believed in him.“Welcome to the Rewrite Layer,” he said. “This is where all failing stories come to be reforged or erased.”Behind them, Mira's voice echoed, fragmented, fading. “Cael… help…”Cael gritted his teeth. “Where is she?”The other Cael nodded toward a distant spire of light, barely visible in the void. “Inside that. She’s become the Anchor Fragment. The System plans to wipe her to stabilize itself.”“And I suppose there's a twist?”“Of course.”He turned
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
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