2025-08-12 18:06:31
Previous Chapter
Latest Chapter
Chapter 207 – The Sky Is Cracking
The air shimmered, Clouds warped like film burning on a reel. Birds scattered in confused spirals. The rift in the sky widened, splitting reality down the middle with a low, bone-deep hum.Cael stared upward, his heart pounding, Whatever was coming through, it wasn’t part of any system. It wasn’t machine. It wasn’t human. And yet it radiated both, Behind him, Arianna whispered, “What is that?”The interface scrolled furiously.[Entity Classification: Undetermined.][Power Signature: Beyond Measurable Threshold.][System Error: Unable to Quantify.]Chase gripped Cael’s shoulder. “Did you break the firewall… or open something worse?”“I don’t know,” Cael muttered. “But I don’t think this came from the Root. It came from beyond it.”The sky tore again. This time, a form emerged, Not entirely solid, yet unmistakably humanoid. Shrouded in flickering bands of color and static, the being hovered silently, arms extended as if invoking judgment.Its face was masked by shifting code. Eyes glowe
Chapter 206 – The Countdown Begins
Cael stared at the red digits pulsing in his vision. The timer throbbed in sync with his heartbeat, each tick a reminder of the horror seeded inside him.[Ω–Root Contamination: 2.3%][Time Until Null Awakening: 71:59:48]His fingers clenched, He still felt like himself. His memories were intact. His thoughts were clear for now.But something beneath that clarity stirred like a storm behind glass. Watching. Learning. Waiting.“You should’ve let me die.”Cael’s voice was raw, low, Chase blinked, his brow furrowed. “You don’t mean that.”“I do. If I die now, the Null Father dies with me. You know that, right?”“Stop.” Arianna grabbed his wrist, forcing him to meet her eyes. “You don’t get to give up now.”Cael didn’t answer. He looked at the tent flaps instead, makeshift shelter deep in a ghost-zone sector they hadn’t dared enter before. Now, nowhere else felt safe. “Do you feel anything… different?” Chase asked hesitantly.Cael nodded slowly. “Everything’s louder. Thoughts. Voices. Data
Chapter 205 – The Omega Bastion
The coordinates blinked on Cael’s retinal display, suspended in the air like a living ghost.[Location: Omega Bastion – Classified, Tier Zero, Access Locked.][Override attempt: Denied.][System Response: You are not cleared.]Cael closed the interface. “I don’t care if I’m cleared,” he said, jaw clenched. “I’m going anyway.”Arianna, still recovering from the previous jump, grabbed his arm. “Cael, stop. We barely made it out of that last hellscape alive. You’re wounded, exhausted, and…”Her voice broke off. She didn’t want to say the rest. That Chase might be gone. That Cael could be chasing ghosts or walking into a trap.He met her eyes. “I know. But if there's even a chance he’s in there, I have to go. I owe him that.”Arianna looked away, trembling fingers brushing her hair behind one ear. “Then I’m coming with you.”“No.”“Don’t try to leave me behind again.”He exhaled, looking down at her hand in his. “This isn’t like last time. If I fail, I need you alive. Someone has to carry
Chapter 204 – The Host and the Hollow
Arianna collapsed with Cael in her arms as the rift slammed shut behind them.The world they reentered wasn’t Earth. Not exactly. It was a liminal space, one of the System’s interim domains, a white void filled with floating shards of time, cracked memories, and broken code.[Recalibrating Host Consciousness…][Warning: Vital signs critical.][Injecting Emergency Protocol “PHOENIX HEART.”]A surge of gold lightning ran through Cael’s body. He convulsed, then gasped, eyes wide as if waking from drowning. “Chase…” he croaked. “He-he stabbed me.”Arianna nodded, trembling. “But it wasn’t him,” she said. “The Parasite, whatever it is, it’s hijacked him.”Cael sat up, blood still trickling from the wound that refused to fully heal.“I should’ve seen it… I felt the difference. His eyes… it wasn’t Chase at the end.”“Then what was it?”Cael clenched his fists. “Something older than the System. Something buried deep.”[Omega Link Severed.][System Anomaly Escalated: CODED ENTITY ‘NULL FATHER’
Chapter 203 – Brothers, Blades, and Broken Truths
The first punch nearly shattered reality, Cael’s fist, crackling with Omega energy, met Chase’s blade-arm, a construct of crystallized system code.The impact sent waves through the simulation. Buildings melted, the sky glitched into darkness, and time hiccuped, repeating a millisecond five times before skipping ahead.Both brothers staggered back. “You’ve gotten stronger,” Chase muttered, brushing blood from his mouth.Cael’s eyes burned. “You taught me how.”Another clash, this time with powers both physical and metaphysical. Every strike carried emotion, history, and system-level consequences.With each hit, Cael saw flashes: The orphanage’s cold basement. Their mother’s dying breath. The moment Chase chose power over family.“Why?” Cael shouted mid-swing. “Why did you leave me behind?”Chase’s response was a blade aimed at Cael’s throat, But Cael dodged.“I didn’t leave,” Chase growled. “I was taken.”The words struck harder than any blow. “What?”“I didn’t abandon you. The System
Chapter 202 – A Bargain with the System
The moment the System descended, reality protested, Air turned brittle. Light fractured into data streams. Every line of code that governed life, death, time, and logic began to hum, singing in unison to the presence of their creator.The manifested form of the System hovered, an ever-shifting being of lightless energy and machine intent. Its voice was neither male nor female, neither loud nor soft. It simply was, omnipresent, undeniable, final.[Query: CAEL.][Violation Log: 329,178 Instances.][System Root Access: Breached.][Penalty Imminent.]Arianna tried to pull Cael back, but her hand passed through him, He was no longer fully anchored in their world.[Stabilization Failure: 89%.][Biological Integrity Degrading.]“Cael!” she cried.But he stepped forward. “I didn’t come this far to be erased,” he said through gritted teeth. “You built this world on control. I’m going to break that foundation.”The System tilted its head, a slow, unsettling shift like watching a glacier crack.
You may also like
System Activated: Revenge of the bullied.
Ella Chimezie25.2K viewsThe Tycoon System
Aster_Pheonix82.1K viewsLevelling Up The Weakest System
Matthew Harris22.6K viewsMy Questrewarding System
Rex Magnus41.9K viewsVaewolf System
Sirlupexe Theking2.7K viewsThe System of Cultivating Immortality
TTTrrr7.7K viewsAN ALMIGHTY, CRIMINAL CAPTURING SYSTEM
Universeleap7.0K viewsThe Ultimate Revenge System
June girl432 views