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The sterile, white hospital room was dark and freezing cold. Elijah stood over the paralyzed Administrator. The man who had played god for ten years was frozen like a statue, trapped by Elijah’s command. "Unfreeze his vocal cords," Elijah ordered the System. The Administrator gasped loudly. His mouth fell open as his throat muscles suddenly relaxed. He sucked in a huge breath of cold air, coughing violently. He still could not move his arms or legs, but he could speak. "You... you are insane," the Administrator choked out, his voice shaking with terror. "You cannot stop the thermite charges. The command is hard-wired into the building’s physical foundation. It is off the network. Your little magic tricks cannot hack a physical bomb."Elijah leaned closer. The green light pulsing in his chest illuminated the fear in the Administrator's eyes. "I don't need to hack the bombs," Elijah said calmly. "I just need to know where the physical bodies of the 12,000 children are kept. I am go
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Elijah did not blink. His eyes, completely black with the glowing white cursor, shifted to the other two soldiers. "Set Structural Integrity to zero," Elijah commanded again. Both assault rifles fell apart into useless piles of metal and plastic parts on the floor. The soldiers stumbled backward, terrified. They patted their tactical vests, reaching for their sidearms, but Elijah just looked at the pistols on their hips. The holsters unbuckled themselves, and the guns fell apart into pieces before the men could even draw them. Elijah had disarmed an elite corporate hit squad without lifting a finger. He had simply edited the physical properties of their equipment. The Administrator stared at the pile of broken gun parts on the floor. His arrogant face was completely pale. He realized that the boy on the bed was not just a hacker turning lights off. The boy was bending reality. "You... you cannot do this," the Administrator stammered, backing toward the open doorway. "This is the
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The green spark suddenly exploded. It did not hurt, but it was completely overwhelming. Inside Elijah’s mind, the familiar, comforting blue windows of the System UI suddenly popped up. There were hundreds of them. They showed his health bar, his mana, his stamina, and his inventory. They showed the glowing green map of the world. [UPDATING FIRMWARE...][WARNING: DELETING ARCHANGEL PROTOCOLS.]Elijah watched as the blue windows began to crack. The bright, cheerful blue color turned a sickly, corrupt yellow, and then shattered into digital dust. The health bars vanished. The mana pools disappeared. The mini-map of the world burned away. Everything that the Archangels had built to turn his life into a video game was violently ripped out of his brain. For a terrifying second, Elijah was completely blind in his mind. There was only absolute, empty blackness. He felt naked. He felt like he was falling through space without a parachute. "Do not panic, King of the Grey," the Archivist’
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The hallway outside Elijah’s hospital room was completely dark. The power was out. The only light came from the flashlights mounted on the assault rifles of the terrified corporate soldiers. The soldiers kept firing their guns. The bullets ripped through the air, creating loud, echoing cracks in the narrow concrete hallway. The smell of burnt gunpowder was heavy and sharp. But the bullets were completely useless. They passed straight through the massive, black glass bodies of the Shadow Legion. The soldiers of the Grey Domain were not physical objects in the Real World. They were digital ghosts, projected by Elijah through the building’s augmented reality network. The Administrator, the man who had played the Father, stood with his back pressed hard against the locked metal door of Elijah’s room. His expensive suit was wrinkled. His face was pale and covered in sweat. "Stop shooting!" the Administrator yelled at his men. He waved his hands frantically. "They are just holograms! Y
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Elijah opened his physical eyes in the dark room. "They are outside the door," Elijah whispered. “I will kill them,” Lyra projected coldly. Her dark, faceless shadow drifted toward the heavy metal door. "No, Lyra," Elijah said. He stood up from the bed. His bare feet were silent on the linoleum floor. "You cannot touch physical objects in this world. You are just a shadow on the wall. Let me handle the hardware."Elijah held the black wire connected to his chest. He focused the raw power of the Admin Key. Outside the room, the lead soldier raised his boot to kick the heavy metal door open. The electronic keypad next to the door suddenly sparked and exploded in a shower of blue sparks. The heavy metal door did not open. The locking mechanism slammed shut with a deafening clang, sealing perfectly. "What happened?!" the Administrator yelled, stepping back from the sparks. "The door locked itself, sir!" a soldier shouted, trying to pry the control panel open. "The system is rejectin
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Elijah placed a hand on his chest. He thought about the green computer code that had always lived in his mind. He thought about the System Boy, the tiny green spark that had woken up when Elijah gave it a piece of his human heart. "Why did the Administrator give the Admin Key to me?" Elijah asked. "I was just a Sovereign. A basic management tool.""He didn't give it to you," the Archivist smiled. It was a sad, proud smile. "You stole it."The Archivist waved its hand again. The memory shifted. Elijah saw a massive, sterile white laboratory in the Real World. He saw scientists in white coats typing frantically on computers. In the center of the room, he saw hundreds of sick, skinny children lying in hospital beds, all with thick black wires plugged into their chests. Elijah gasped. He saw himself lying in one of the beds. He was asleep. "Ten years ago," the Archivist said, "the corporation started the Crucible project. They connected the minds of hundreds of dying orphans to the se
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