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Chapter 103: The Local Physics
The guards didn’t wait for a second invitation. They charged. The weight of the local physics felt like I was wading through waist-deep mud. I lunged at the first man, but my timing was off. In the old world, I would have been a blur. Here, I was just a man with a heavy arm. I swung the plasma blade in a desperate arc. The glowing red edge hissed through the air. The guard tried to raise his pulse-rifle to block, but the blade didn't care about his tech. It bit into the metal and sheared the weapon clean in half. The guard stared at his ruined gun for a fraction of a second before I kicked him in the chest, sending him drifting back into the zero-G void. "Vaxien! Behind you!" Nyxra screamed.I didn't turn. I felt the heat of a pulse-round whistle past my ear. I dropped low, my magnetic boots clattered against the rusted grating as I struggled to find my center.Zeryth was already in the thick of it. He wasn't trying to be a hero. He was fighting like a cornered animal. He dived un
Chapter 102: Bleeding the Code
The collector pulled the trigger.I didn't think, I didn't calculate the odds. My brain just screamed ‘move’. I threw my body forward, dragging my heavy limbs through the air. The world slowed down. I saw the muzzle flash. A sphere of white-hot plasma began to bloom from the end of the barrel. It was an inch from Nyxra’s face.I shoved my hand into the path of the bolt. The heat was unlike anything I had felt in the lower layers. It wasn't just a burn, it was an erasure. The plasma ate through my alloy skin instantly, screaming as it hit the core layers of my hand. I felt the metal liquefy. I felt the sensors in my palm melt into slag.I didn't scream. I didn't have the breath for it. Nyxra shrieked as I shoved her backward. I closed my fist around the dying bolt of heat. It hissed and popped against my raw internal circuitry."Vaxien!" Zeryth yelled. He was on his feet, stumbling forward."Don't move!" The collector shouted, but his voice had lost that bored edge. He stared at my s
Chapter 101: The Bronze Tax
I stared at the blue light. Layer 5.I didn't think about it. I didn't look at Nyxra or Zeryth to ask for their opinion. I just hit the prompt.The throne room didn't fade, it snapped. One second I was sitting on the seat of a god, and the next, my stomach did a violent flip. The air went from the warm, golden hum of the Source to a cold, metallic stink. It smelled like rot.We hit a floor made of rusted grating, hard."Ugh, my head," Zeryth groaned. He scrambled up, his heavy pipe already in his hand. Nyxra stayed low, her eyes darting around. "Vaxien? Where are we?""Not home," I said. I stood up and felt something heavy in my chest. Not power, weight. I tried to flex my Synthesis, but it felt like trying to breathe through a straw.I looked up. We were on a dock. It was a massive, floating slab of junk suspended in a gray void that went on forever. There were no stars here. Just fog and men.Twenty of them, maybe more. They wore thick, tactical vests and helmets with glowing red vi
Chapter 100: The True Reboot
The room didn't turn white and it ceased to exist as anything recognizable. The Investor’s face twisted and the golden mask of his features melted into a mask of pure, unadulterated panic. He saw the command line in my eyes and he knew the System Erase wasn't a bluff. It was a funeral."You think you can just delete the foundation of reality?" The Investor screamed and he threw his arms wide. "I am the light! I am the force that holds the stars in their orbits! If I go down and the galaxy goes dark!""Then we'll learn to see in the dark," I said and I stepped forward. The Investor roared and the golden energy around him surged.He didn't fire a beam or a bolt. He unleashed the raw, unfiltered power of a hundred supernovas. The heat was enough to vaporize entire solar systems and the light was a physical hammer that should have turned my alloy body to steam. The bridge behind me began to liquefy and I heard the metal groan as it turned to slag."Vaxien!" Nyxra yelled and she threw h
Chapter 99: The Throne of Dying Stars
The wreckage of the lead ring was still screaming through the atmosphere of the core as we breached the final layer of the sanctum. I didn't feel the heat or the friction. I only felt the cold and steady pull of the man who thought he owned my soul. The air inside the sanctum was thin and sweet and it tasted like a lie. "Vaxien, look at the floor," Nyxra whispered and she gripped her pulse pistol so hard her knuckles were white. "It’s not a floor. It’s a map."I looked down and my alloy boots were standing on a sea of stars. It was a massive and holographic chessboard that stretched across the entire chamber. Each piece wasn't a carving, it was a miniature sun or a cluster of planets. They hummed with a sick and captive energy and they moved with a slow and silent grace."Is that a joke?" Zeryth growled and he gripped his heavy pipe and he spat on the shimmering stars. "He’s playing a game while we’re burning his house down?""It is not a game," a voice boomed and it came from the
Chapter 98: The Gates of the Investor
The last golden dreadnought of the blockade flickered and died as I pulled my consciousness back into the station. The bridge was thick with the smell of burnt circuitry and hot metal and I felt the hum of the Genesis-Forge cooling in my alloy veins. We had broken them."Admiral, we are through," Nyxra said and she wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead. "The blockade is scattered, we have a clear window to the Galactic Core.""Punch it," I said. The fleet didn't wait. A thousand ships surged forward and the space around us warped and stretched as we jumped. We didn't travel for hours or days. We tore through the fabric of the galaxy until the stars became a solid wall of white light. Then we hit the center."Vaxien, look at that," Zeryth’s voice crackled over the comms and I could hear the awe in his tone. "I’ve seen a lot of corporate greed, but this is something else."I looked out the main viewscreen and I felt a cold knot tighten in my stomach. The Galactic Core wasn't just a
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