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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
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’
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