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Chapter 187: Echoes Beyond the Thread
Cael drifted, Not floating not falling but something in between, He didn’t know how long it had been since the explosion, since Mira’s eyes found his, since the world dissolved into threads and sparks. All he knew was silence, Then... a pulse.[ SYSTEM INTERFACE DETACHED. ][ ERROR: HOST ENTITY UNRECOGNIZED. ][ INITIATING CORE SCAN... ]A blinding light flashed across his mind and then a voice. Not digital. Not synthetic, But calm. Human. “You don’t belong here. Not yet.”She stood over him again, white robes flowing, her face eerily similar to Mira’s, but... older. Calmer. Timeless. “Who are you?” Cael asked.“You’re not supposed to see me yet,” she replied, ignoring the question.He pushed himself to his knees, noticing the ground underfoot wasn’t solid. It shimmered like memories stitched into fog “Where is this?” he asked.“This is the place in between. Where broken threads are mended... or erased.”“Did I die?”She looked at him, unreadable. “That depends on your answer.”She sh
Chapter 186: When Systems Collide
The impact of Cael’s punch meeting the Impostor’s fist ripped through the layers of Xen-17 like a digital earthquake.[ COLLISION: THREAD-LEVEL INTEGRITY BREACH ][ TIME SEAM TORN — TEMPORAL SPLICE INITIATED ][ UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT DETECTED ]Mira fell to her knees as the very air warped around her. Keiran struggled to stabilize a shield, but bits of reality kept blinking, like pixels deleting and restoring mid-frame, Cael and the Impostor hovered mid-air, trapped in a frozen explosion of light, Then everything crashed.Flint lay unconscious, bleeding from both nostrils. His internal implants were short-circuiting from the system flux. Mira grabbed him, yelling for Keiran “We need to move now!”But Keiran wasn’t listening. His eyes were locked on Cael, “He’s... overpowering the thread. That’s not possible.”Mira looked up, Cael’s body was flickering, between flesh, code, shadow, and fire, Every time he struck the Impostor, he seemed to glitch further “He’s tearing himself apart.”But
Chapter 185: Unforgotten
The golden thread pulsed through Cael’s phantom hands like a living vein of purpose.[ THREAD OF RETURN ACTIVATED ][ INITIATING SYSTEM-BREAK BREACH... ][ SYSTEM DEFENSES ENGAGED. RISK: CRITICAL. ][ IDENTITY RESTORATION: INCOMPLETE ]His mind cracked open, memories flooding in, each one like a hammer pounding into his fractured consciousness. Faces. Names. Blood. Fire. Laughter. Guilt.His body reformed not in flesh but in code, pure essence being stitched together pixel by painful pixel. “I remember... all of it.” And then came the scream, her scream, Mira.In the real world, Mira collapsed, A sudden burst of pain pulsed behind her eyes as she clutched her head, breathing ragged. Keiran rushed to her side. “Are you alright?!”“I... I saw him.”Keiran stiffened. “Saw who?”“I don’t know... but, he was real. A boy. He was burning, and everything was tearing apart, but he was holding onto me. Calling my name.”Keiran’s face drained of color “Cael.”She blinked. “What?”“That was his n
Chapter 184: The Choice That Echoes
[ CHOICE CONFIRMED: YES ][ COMMENCING SYSTEM REBOOT... ][ DELETING PRIMARY HOST IDENTITY: CAEL ELIAS RINN ][ BACKUP UNAVAILABLE. NO RETURN.]The screen dimmed as Cael's trembling fingertip vanished from the holographic prompt, In the instant that followed, the world convulsed, Not metaphorically literally.Buildings folded in on themselves. Time inverted. Air turned crystalline. The ground cracked open to reveal a churning bed of code. People frozen mid-step suddenly unspooled like pixel strings, disassembling and reassembling into their original, true selves.And at the center of it all, Cael hung suspended in golden light, his body already beginning to unravel, his system links being forcibly severed from existence, Mira screamed, her voice lost in the sonic implosion of time-space realignment.Keiran sprinted toward the Memory Cradle, eyes wide in disbelief. “You stupid bastard,” he whispered.The moment Cael vanished, atomized by his choice, the System emitted a sound like a br
Chapter 183: Zero Hour: Countdown to Oblivion
Three minutes That’s all the time Cael had left The countdown blared across the sky like an apocalyptic billboard. The System’s terminal now a monstrous tear in the heavens spat cascading lines of red code, like veins rupturing across reality.[ SYSTEM OVERRIDE SEQUENCE ENGAGED ][ WORLD DELETION IN: 00:02:59 ]Cael struggled to his knees, coughing blood. Sparks flickered from the fragments of his inkblade. Beside him, Keiran groaned, trying to stand despite his scorched armor. Mira clutched her head, blinking furiously as memories clashed against the rewrite inside her brain.Above, the Impostor hovered. Triumphant. Unstable. Eyes like broken mirrors. “I gave you a chance to surrender,” he said, voice echoing with corrupted system files. “You refused. So now I’ll burn your world down word by word.”Cael’s fingers dug into the ground, finding only ash. “You’re not the story,” he muttered. “You’re a glitch.”[ 00:02:43 ]“Think, Cael,” Keiran rasped. “There has to be a failsafe. The co
Chapter 182: The War of Ink and Echoes
It began with a scream, Not from a throat, but from the code itself, Reality buckled. Skylines dissolved into scribbles. Gravity lost its grip. Color drained into grayscale. Even time faltered, moments looping back on themselves like a broken video file.Cael staggered as the street cracked beneath his feet, turning to paragraphs, then single letters, then… nothing “Stop it!” he roared.But the echo only laughed back. From above, the Impostor the Author Residual Entity floated effortlessly, his body a fusion of Cael’s likeness and digital madness. Ink streamed from his fingertips, rewriting existence in crimson code.“You gave them freedom,” he called down mockingly, “but freedom is chaos. Do you see what they’re doing with it?”Cael clenched his fists. The inkblade hummed in his hand. “I gave them choice. You’re the one taking it away.”“I’m restoring order,” the Impostor spat. “One voice. One vision. Mine.”He raised his corrupted quill, and stabbed it into the sky. Thunder split th
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