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Chapter 87 - Reconstruction Protocol
The silence after the storm was deeper than any Kael had known. Not the eerie stillness of pre-battle, but a sacred, waiting quiet. The kind that comes after endings—and just before beginnings. He stood alone in the remains of the Rift Core, now flickering gently like the embers of a long-fought war. The digital heart had dimmed to a soft pulse, no longer threatening, no longer manipulated. It was part of him now. Sarah’s voice buzzed in through the comms. “Kael? You still with us?” Kael opened his eyes. “Yeah. I’m here.” He stepped back from the Core, now stabilized and humming in resonance with his neural signature. Lines of code moved around him like flowing water, awaiting his decision. Lucio approached, favoring one leg, armor cracked, yet still burning with the blue energy of his strike cores. “You did it,” he said. “But what is this now? Peace? Or just a different kind of control?” Kael didn’t answer right away. He accessed the global grid. The whole world was watching. He
Chapter 86: The Rift Core
The digital storm above the arena had quieted, but tension rippled through the code like a virus waiting to activate. Kael stood at the center of it all, his mind a live wire of emotion, calculation, and legacy. For the first time, he wasn’t fighting to survive he was commanding the battlefield. The neural grid around St. Aldric’s was synced to him, still unstable, but momentarily his. “Status?” he asked. Sarah adjusted her visor. “Tokyo squads are retreating into Rift Zones. But there’s chatter they’re not done Yurei’s opened a new gate.” Lucio paced, his blade still humming. “He’s trying to provoke us into following into their world. Their home ground.” Kael’s eyes flared. “Then we do the unexpected. We don’t chase them. We collapse the source.” A holographic map flared to life in front of them, projected from Sarah’s arm rig. At the center glowed a pulsating black shape. “The Rift Core,” she said. “A hidden sub layer between simulation levels. Think of it as the operat
Chapter 85: Ghost Protocol
The silence after Kael’s transformation was suffocating. His body pulsed with strange energy a fusion of Rootflare’s code and the broken, ancient data left behind by the Architects every breath buzzed like electricity. His vision flickered, shifting between physical reality and digital overlays. The school pitch around him had transformed it no longer looked like St. Aldric’s. Glowing glyphs hovered midair neural threads danced in the sky. It was no longer a school it was a battleground. Sarah reached him first. “Kael! You’re bleeding data are you okay?” “I didn’t choose this,” Kael said, gripping his chest. “It chose me.” Behind them, students stirred, their memories erased or jumbled. Most didn’t know they had just been used as pawns in a living simulation. But Lucio stood apart, leaning against the goalpost where he recovered from the gunshot. With a smirk like he’d been waiting for this moment. “Looks like our Prime Host is finally online,” Lucio said. “Took you long eno
Chapter 84: The Player They Feared
The underground chamber pulsed with cold blue light. Screens lined every wall showing neural maps, digital student profiles, and a live feed of St. Aldric’s. Students marched like ghosts through the hallways, their minds hijacked by Phase Two. Kael stepped inside Isabel stood in the center, cloak gone, now wearing a sleek neural rig laced with glowing lines. A blade hung at her side real, not digital but old school tech it was deadly. She didn’t flinch as he approached. “I was wondering when you’d come,” Isabel said. “You shot Lucio,” Kael growled. “He could’ve come back. He remembered his name.” She raised an eyebrow. “Too risky. He was corrupted. You know what corruption does.” “He was human.” “So was I. Once.” They stood in silence. Kael’s fists tightened. “End it. Shut Rootflare down.” Isabel laughed. “Why would I kill the only system that’s actually working? Look at them, Kael. No bullying. No fear. No weakness. Everyone has a purpose.” “A purpose you programmed
Chapter 83: The Student Rebellion
The chapel doors slammed shut behind Kael and Sarah, locking them in. Stained glass flickered with glitching light symbols of old saints replaced with corrupted Architect glyphs. The air smelled like ozone and fire. Across the chapel stood Aaron or whatever had taken his place. Around him, ten students emerged from the shadows. Their eyes shimmered faintly with neural code not mind controlled, but enhanced. Echo linked each one trained to fight not just physically but mentally. Kael didn’t flinch. “You’re not getting in my head.” Aaron tilted his head, smiling like a machine wearing skin. “Too late. You left the door open years ago.” Sarah stepped forward. “I thought he was one of us.” “He was,” Kael whispered. “Until my father activated him.” He scanned the room every face had once been part of the student body. Quiet kids, overachievers, football players and gamers. Now, soldiers in a war no one even knew had started. “You built a secret army,” Kael said, raising his
Chapter 82: Echo Nexus
The sky above St. Aldric’s was calm, but inside Kael’s mind, a storm was rising. He stood by the tall window in his dorm room, staring at the moonlit field where the football match had ended just hours ago. Lucio had smiled when he left. Smiled like someone who hadn’t truly lost.[Phase Two: Initiated. Echo Nexus Online.]That message still pulsed on Kael’s screen.“What is Echo Nexus?” Sarah asked from behind him, her voice low.Kael turned slowly. “It’s the next step. I thought Rootfire was the peak, but this… this is different. Bigger. And I think Lucio was just the opening move.”Sarah crossed her arms. “Then we need to be ready.”“We need help,” Kael said. “I can’t do this alone anymore.”Later That NightKael called a secret meeting in the abandoned east wing of campus. Only five students were invited. All of them had experienced digital glitches or strange dreams over the past few weeks. All of them had seen too much.Among them was Ronan, the top robotics coder; James, who onc
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