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Chapter 123: The World Without Jace
The light went out, And with it, the sound, Jace opened his eyes to find himself lying on a polished marble floor beneath an ornate crystal chandelier.For a dizzying moment, he thought he was back in one of the consortium’s penthouse suites. But the air was wrong, too still, too clean, like no one had breathed here for years.He sat up. The hall stretched on endlessly in both directions, the walls lined with portraits, Every single portrait was of the same man, sharp jawline, narrow eyes, immaculate suit, but Jace had never seen him before in his life.He staggered to his feet, his voice hoarse. “Chancellor? Aide?”Only his own echo answered, A door appeared in the wall ahead. Not opened, appeared, as if it had been painted into the world by an unseen hand, The moment he touched the handle, the marble under his feet vanished. He stumbled forward, onto a bustling city sidewalk.The air smelled of hot pretzels and car exhaust. Neon signs blazed overhead, strangers hurried past him, tal
Chapter 122: The Page That Shouldn’t Exist
There was no floor. There was no sky, Only an endless ocean of ink, stretching out in all directions, roiling and folding as though it were alive.Glyphs the size of buildings floated on its surface, some whole, others fractured into drifting shards of light.Jace’s boots didn’t sink, they didn’t even make ripples. He was standing on nothing, and yet the nothing held him. The Chancellor and the aide materialized beside him, pale and silent.The aide knelt, brushing his fingers through the air as though feeling for an invisible seam. “We’re inside it. The missing page.”The Chancellor’s gaze swept the horizon. “You shouldn’t have brought us here.”“I didn’t bring us” Jace started, but his voice was swallowed, muffled by the strange, heavy silence that lay over the place.Something broke the surface of the ink. At first, he thought it was a hand. Then he realized it was a quill, longer than a man’s arm, black as a starless night, its tip dripping liquid light. It wrote in mid-air, the g
Chapter 121: Erase
The first masked figure lunged. It didn’t move like a person. It moved like a shadow given purpose, bending, slipping through space, folding reality in on itself until the distance between them vanished.Jace barely had time to twist aside. The figure’s blade whistled past his ear, slicing through the marble column behind him like butter.The Chancellor’s blackened steel sword met another masked attacker mid-swing. Sparks sprayed across the air as the two forces collided, the impact ringing like a cracked bell.The silver-haired aide was already shouting orders, his voice almost drowned out by the thundering footfalls of armored guards rushing into the chamber.But the intruders weren’t fighting the guards, They were ignoring everyone but him.Jace ducked as another attacker’s blade passed overhead, felt the rush of air pull at his hair. Instinctively, his hand went to where the System quill used to be, but it wasn’t there. Instead, his fingers brushed against the smooth surface of th
Chapter 120: The World That Knew His Name
Not the damp, clinging heat of the jungle he remembered from one of his past “system tests,” but a clean, dry warmth, like sunlight spilling across silk sheets. His eyes opened to see a ceiling he didn’t recognize, gold-leaf trim curling into intricate spirals, each one inlaid with tiny emerald chips that caught the light.He sat up too fast, The bed beneath him was massive, its canopy stitched with threads of platinum. Around the room, walls of white marble glistened faintly, carved with a mural of his own face. Jace froze. His own face.Not the rough sketch you’d find in some corporate brochure, either, this was a detailed, almost reverent portrayal. He looked… older, but sharper. “Good morning, Mr. Halden,” a voice said smoothly.Jace whipped his head toward the sound. A man in a tailored crimson suit stood at the foot of the bed, bowing slightly. His hair was silver, his posture military-perfect. “Where am I?” Jace demanded.The man smiled politely. “In your capital residence, sir
Chapter 119: The Word That Shouldn’t Exist
The void had no bottom. Jace’s body spun slowly as he fell, weightless but gripped by a gravity that pulled at more than just flesh, it pulled at meaning. Every thought he had seemed to unravel into drifting letters, pulled away into the darkness.The quill was the only thing that stayed solid in his hand, its glow cutting a thin ribbon of light through the absence. Above him, Evelyn’s voice was fading. Older-Jace’s was getting louder.“Write it,” Older-Jace commanded. “Begin. That’s all it takes. One word, and the Source becomes yours.”Jace clenched the quill tighter. “And if I do?”Older-Jace drifted closer through the void, his smile sharp. “You stop being a pawn. The system stops controlling you, you control it. You think all this wealth and power is real? It’s leased. Write into the Source, and you own it forever.”From above, Evelyn’s silhouette dropped lower, her hair streaming out around her. “Don’t! That word isn’t a beginning, it’s a reset. You’ll erase everything. Yourself
Chapter 118: Inkfall
The quill stabbed downward, Jace didn’t think, he reacted. The ink leapt from the pen’s tip, forming a jagged streak across the disk.For a heartbeat, nothing happened. Then the entire engraving ripped in half, the stone shrieking as it gave way. Ink swallowed them all.It wasn’t water. It was thicker, alive. The moment it closed over his head, it filled his mouth, nose, ears, yet he didn’t drown. Instead, it pressed words into his mind, thousands at once, as if every sentence ever written was trying to brand itself into him.Through the blackness, shapes moved. Faceless figures swam effortlessly, darting around him like predators. Some had quills for fingers; others bled ink from the seams of their bodies.One swam close. Its face stretched open, not a mouth, but a page, covered in lines of text written in a language Jace had never seen. The words slid off the page and wrapped around his throat like chains.He slashed the quill through the water. The ink obeyed instantly, tearing the
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