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Chapter 78: The Fall of the Architect
The world erupted into chaos. You hit the ground hard, the blastwave hurling you backward through shattered pillars of memory-steel and fractured code. Sparks rained down. Data filaments whipped through the air like serpents.Above, the Board's soldiers descended in perfect formation faceless, armored, precise Mira dragged you behind a collapsed fragment of the throne as bullets sliced the air “They brought a kill team,” she shouted. “Not for us for him.”You turned your head just in time to see the Architect still half-living, half-coded writhing on the ground. The throne was gone. His form flickered in and out, collapsing into strings of corrupted script.But his voice still echoed: “Don’t let them… rewrite me…”Your father activated his pulse field, shielding the three of you for a brief moment “They’re not here to capture. They’re here to erase everything.”He pulled a device from his belt flat, obsidian, pulsing “Memory bomb,” he muttered. “If they detonate it, every record in th
Chapter 77: The Mirror Beneath the World
The light at the base of the staircase pulsed like a heartbeat, You stood still, heart pounding, staring into the mirror It looked like you. Same eyes. Same face.But it didn't mimic your movements, Instead, it watched you. It waited. And then it beckoned. Your reflection raised its hand, slowly, deliberately. Then turned and walked away, Into the depths of the mirror. And the glass rippled… like water.Your father stepped forward “This was never part of the Forge. That staircase… it’s older than this structure. Older than the Consortium.”Mira ran her fingers along the rail, squinting at the carvings etched into the walls. “They’re not just glyphs. They’re coordinates, dates, decisions. Memories etched into stone.”You turned back to the mirror, Your own reflection had vanished, But another figure stood there now You, again Only this version wore a crown of thorns. Blood on the collar. Eyes glowing gold, And when you blinked he did not.Suddenly the mirror shimmered, And a voice a wh
Chapter 76: Origin vs. Echo
The world blinked away, No sound. No breath. No color. Just a void of shifting code. You stood in a simulation forged from your own neural blueprint a digital arena born from your mind, now hijacked by your clone.He circled you, barefoot over invisible ground, grinning “No distractions. No weapons. Just us. Truth versus version.” You felt your heartbeat, even here.This wasn’t a fight of muscle or reflex, This was a clash of identity, Of purpose. Of who deserved to exist. The clone raised his hand, The void rippled. Suddenly, you were twelve sitting in your childhood home, watching your mother scrub floors while your father argued on the phone. “She cried when you weren’t looking,” the clone whispered. “You remember it.”The scene dissolved, You were sixteen, Bloody. Bruised, A crowd laughing as your girlfriend threw a drink in your face. “They called you trash. She did too. You still think they were wrong?”You turned to him “They were scared of what I could become.”He smiled. “So
Chapter 75: The Other Me
The chamber pulsed crimson as emergency sirens wailed, But none of it mattered, Because he was awake. Your clone your genetic twin stood in the stasis cradle, wires peeling from his skin like strands of a broken web, His eyes opened slowly.And they were exactly like yours. Same irises. Same scar above the brow. Same intensity. But there was no recognition, Only calculation. “Vitals: stabilized,” he muttered, stepping down. “Target proximity: confirmed. Directive: assimilation.”You took a step back. “Who programmed him?”Your father didn’t answer, Mira pulled her gun. The clone moved faster than anyone expected.You dove left as the clone lunged toward your throat. Mira fired, center mass. Nothing. He twisted mid-air, disarmed her in one fluid motion, and slammed her into the wall. She grunted and dropped.You rolled, grabbed a loose data spike from the console, and jammed it into the clone’s forearm. Electricity danced. He spasmed, then smiled. “Pain receptors: disabled.”He grabbed
Chapter 74: Chamber Zero
You stood frozen, the voice still echoing in your mind. “Then come prove it, son.” Not a recording. Not synthetic. Not an echo from a broken past. Your father.Alive. Watching. Calling. And waiting at the place no one dared approach: Chamber Zero The Forge.It wasn’t just a location. It was the first site where the Ascendants shaped the world. A mythical birthplace of leaders, wiped from maps and sealed from time. Now it was calling you.The flight was off-grid. A stealth-class VTOL outfitted with cloaking systems, emergency nanomedics, and only one co-pilot: Mira. She sat beside you, scanning encrypted coordinates through the crystal tablet left in the Ascendants' capsule.“I’ve triangulated the pulse,” she said. “They didn’t just want you to find this place… they wanted you alone.”You checked the suit systems pressure, thermal, pulse response. “Too bad,” you said, buckling in. “You’re coming.”Mira snorted. “Someone has to save you from yourself.”Below, the icy wastelands of the n
Chapter 73: The Board of Ascendants
The sky rained silence. Dozens of matte-black drones hovered overhead, silent predators against a bleeding dawn. Their configuration wasn’t military. It was surgical. Deliberate. Coordinated. Each carried the same sigil: A single golden eye wrapped in ivy.It wasn’t a brand. It was a mark of ownership, The moment Mira read the card again, her lips thinned. “Phase Two Begins Now. The Board of Ascendants.”Your jaw clenched. You whispered the name like a curse: “They’re real.”The Board of Ascendants was a myth. A ghost story whispered among old Consortium intelligence officers. Supposedly, they were the real founders, not of the Consortium, but of the world before it. Not kings. Not rulers. Architects.They didn’t build empires to rule them. They built ecosystems to own the rules. The fall of the Consortium wasn’t a failure, it was a planned obsolescence. A shedding of skin. And now, with the Vault destroyed, They were making their first move.The small metal capsule hissed open in th
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