2025-05-29 02:38:01Aiden stepped into the light, the flickering flames casting shadows across his face. Water dripped from his soaked hoodie, the fabric clinging to his thin frame like a shroud. Rook turned, squinting. His face twisted in disbelief. “Cross?” Aiden said nothing. “You’re supposed to be dead!” the man in the coat hissed, pulling something from his jacket a compact shockblade. Rook took a step back. “Wait wait, what the hell is going on?!”
[MISSION UPDATE: Choose Your Path
Option 1: Confront – No Kill
Option 2: Eliminate Target – Reward: Combat Ability: "Pulse Strike" (Tier 1)
The options hovered in Aiden’s mind, pulsing red and white. He stared at Rook. The man who laughed when Aiden passed out from exhaustion. Who docked his pay for “attitude.” Who stood by and watched his dignity get stripped every single day. And now… plotted to kill him. “I don’t want trouble,” Aiden said, voice low. “Too late,” the coat-man snarled and lunged, blade flashing.
WARNING: Incoming Attack – Evasive Protocol Suggested
Instinct not training took over. Aiden ducked, the blade slicing through air where his neck had been a second earlier. Time slowed. His vision shifted lines, vectors, probabilities. The system was showing him how to move. He struck. Not with skill. With raw, desperate violence. His fist connected with the attacker’s throat. A sickening crunch. The man dropped, gasping, eyes wide. Rook froze, trembling. “You you freak!” Optional Task: Eliminate Target – Rook Target Now Vulnerable
[REWARD: "Pulse Strike" Available if Executed Within 20 Seconds]
Twenty seconds. Aiden’s heart pounded. His hands trembled. He looked down at the attacker, now unconscious. One hit. He was stronger. Rook scrambled backward on hands and knees, slipping in the rain. “I didn’t mean for you to die, I swear!” he babbled. “It it wasn’t me! He said it was just a scare!” Aiden stood over him. The option pulsed red. “He was ready to kill you,” the deeper voice inside him whispered. “He still would. Are you going to let him walk away?” The flames behind them popped. Somewhere in the distance, sirens were closing in. Rook was sobbing now. “Please… I’m sorry…” The system didn’t rush him. It waited. Still. Watching. He clenched his fist and turned away. “No.”
[OPTION DECLINED] Reward Lost: "Pulse Strike" Trait Gained: Willpower +1
The panel faded. Aiden walked away, not because he was merciful but because he didn’t want to become what they were. Behind him, Rook choked out a broken breath. Alive. For now. The alley behind the warehouse was deserted. Aiden moved through it like a ghost, the city breathing around him, unaware of what had just been born.
[SYSTEM STABILIZATION COMPLETE]
Name: Aiden Cross
Level: 1
Tier: Civilian-Class Host
Attributes Unlocked:
– Reflex +3
– Willpower +1
Next Mission Available:
Task: Trace the Source Investigate the System's Origin
Task: Daily Struggle Survive 7 More Days
System Commentary:“You survived. Not bad… for a human.” Aiden exhaled. “You're real.” “You made me real.” The voice wasn’t kind. Or cruel. Just...
there. Like the city. Like gravity. He didn’t go home. Not that his “home” was worth going back to just a roach-infested room over a pawnshop, a leaky ceiling, and a broken space heater.
Instead, he found himself walking to an old overpass on the edge of town somewhere he used to go as a kid to escape his father’s rage. It was abandoned now. Forgotten. Like him.
Aiden sat on a concrete ledge, the rain easing into a steady drizzle. The city glittered in the distance, so close and yet unreachable. His hands were still shaking. Not from fear. From adrenaline. He had made a choice. And the system… respected it.
Somewhere beneath all the trauma, he felt a spark. Control. For the first time in his life, he’d stood between life and death and decided what kind of man he wanted to be. He didn’t kill Rook. Not because he couldn’t. Because he chose not to. But next time...
He didn’t know if the choice would be that easy. Hours passed. He dozed off for a while, then woke to the sound of footsteps. Someone was approaching. A girl late twenties, raincoat, sharp eyes. Not police. Not warehouse crew. She stopped several feet away, hands raised. “I’m not here to hurt you.
” Aiden rose slowly. “Who are you?” She pulled something from her coat a small silver badge. Not law enforcement. Something different.
“Name’s Rhea. I’m a Monitor.” “Monitor?” “For system-affected individuals. Like you.” Aiden’s heart thudded. She glanced at the faint glow still hovering behind his eyes. “You’re still unstable. New users usually are.” “Is this a government thing?” “Not exactly.” “Then who do you work for?” She smiled slightly. “That’s complicated.”
SYSTEM ALERT: Unknown Entity Detected – Potential Ally / Risk
Do Not Reveal System Details Without Caution
Aiden stepped back. “What do you want?” Rhea’s smile faded. “I came to warn you. You survived activation. That means others will notice. Not everyone is as… restrained as you.” “Others?” “There are more like you, Aiden. Some awakened. Some chosen. Some… corrupted.” His blood ran cold. “How many?” “Too many.”
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The battlefield froze for half a breath. The Core’s descent halted mid-motion, its countless glass wings refracting shards of collapsing sky. Cael’s fists, mid-swing, hovered in blood-streaked air.And then, The Null Father’s tendrils wrapped through reality like barbed wire, weaving around both combatants. He smiled faintly, as though merely correcting a child’s mistake.“You mistake this for your story,” he whispered, voice carrying across the shattered world. “It is not yours. It was never yours.”The tendrils tightened. Cael roared, tearing at the black cords now coiling around his chest and limbs. They weren’t flesh. They weren’t even shadow.They were absence itself, cutting through his aura as if it were smoke. Blood streamed down his arms as he resisted. “Get out of my way, old man!”The Null Father’s silver eyes burned. “I am no man.”The Core reacted violently. A million voices screamed in chorus, vibrating through every living skull: “PARASITE. INTERLOPER. YOU ARE NOT WRITT
Chapter 212 – When the Sky Breaks
The world groaned like an old machine tearing apart at the seams. Above the crater, the sky split into jagged cracks of black and white, bleeding light so bright it turned shadows into knives.Through the breach descended something vast, so vast the human eye could not truly grasp it. It was not a body, nor a face, nor a form. It was a concept given weight.A thousand overlapping wings of glass.A million eyes, each one reflecting a different reality.A crown so immense it spanned the horizon.The System’s True Core was descending. Every living being still standing collapsed under its gravity. Men, women, soldiers, rebels, rich and poor alike screamed and wept as their bodies bent toward the breach like iron filings to a magnet.The Crown of Three lifted its flickering head, its triple voice rasping. “Not yet… not yet…”All across the world, cities buckled. Towers crumbled as their foundations rewrote themselves into rivers, then into desert, then into void.Lagos drowned under black
Chapter 211 – The Crown of Three
The crater stretched for miles, a wound carved into the land by forces no mortal could comprehend. Buildings had collapsed into rubble, rivers ran backward, and the very air vibrated with broken fragments of time.And at the center of it stood the fused figure, the Crown of Three, It was not Cael, It was not the boy, It was not the Null, It was all of them at once.Its body shimmered between forms, sometimes Cael’s youthful face, sometimes the boy’s silver-eyed calm, sometimes the Null’s cruel smile.Its aura burned in three colors: red, gold, and silver, twining like serpents locked in eternal combat. Every breath it took warped reality. Every step cracked the earth. And yet, when it spoke, its voice was calm.“I am no longer bound by division. I am the genesis fulfilled.”Arianna, bloodied and trembling, forced herself to her knees. Her heart stopped at the sight of it. For a moment she saw Cael’s outline in its shifting form, and her chest ached.“Cael…” she whispered.The being tu
Chapter 210 – The Fractured Crown
The world was not the same anymore. It wasn’t even a world. It was a patchwork quilt of contradictions, stitched together by a mind that had become both human and not.Skyscrapers bent sideways into mountains, oceans boiled into deserts, and people were pulled through timelines like chess pieces shuffled across a broken board.And at the center of it, Cael. But he was no longer just Cael. Arianna staggered forward, clutching her chest as the shockwave passed. Around her, the city folded in half. Entire blocks tilted upward as if gravity itself had changed allegiance.A woman screamed, her voice cutting off as she blinked out of existence, reappearing moments later as a child clutching a doll in her arms. It wasn’t death. It wasn’t life. It was rewriting.Arianna pressed her palms to her ears as static roared through her head. The Architect had once warned her of paradox storms. This… this was worse. This was Cael’s mind unraveling the structure of reality itself.She saw him standing
Chapter 209 – The Broken Loop
Smoke clung to the ruined valley like a curtain.The crater where Cael had detonated was still glowing, a deep gold light seeping into the cracks of the earth. Nothing moved. Not a single breath of wind, not a single whisper from the sky. The world held its breath.Arianna knelt at the edge of the crater, fingers trembling. “Cael…” she whispered.But there was no answer. No pulse, No energy signature, The Architect was silent too. She hovered a few meters behind, her glowing form dimmed, head bowed.Chase paced near the command van, his mind racing as he tried to reconnect with any other outpost, any remaining tech, But the Genesis Protocol was breaking apart. Code bled out into the world like spilled ink.[System Warning: Genesis Loop Failed][Origin Signature Lost][Administrator Authority – VOID]In the sky, a hole began to open. Not a portal, A tear. It crackled with blue and red lightning, streaks of unreality whipping around it. It wasn’t supposed to be there, not in this layer,
Chapter 208 – The Null Father Awakens
The Genesis Protocol had triggered a planetary reset, Across every continent, data infrastructure stuttered. Markets crashed. Satellites stopped broadcasting.System-dependent implants went dark. And those who had wielded power through artificial enhancements found themselves… ordinary again. And Cael Lorne? He stood at the center of a storm he had created.“You shut down everything,” Arianna whispered. “Everything.”Chase was already barking orders, coordinating what remained of their rebel network. Most of the tactical gear no longer worked.The encryption algorithms used in their communication channels were obsolete now. The Genesis Protocol had overwritten all of it. Cael clenched his fists. “No, I didn’t destroy it. I rewrote it. Rebalanced it.”“You gave yourself god-mode access,” Chase muttered. “That’s what you did.”The Architect still hovered nearby, arms folded across her shimmering chest. “You misunderstand,” she said softly. “He is not a god. Not yet.”Elsewhere, far belo
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