2025-11-16 21:30:46The city was quiet in the early hours, but the silence was deceptive. Every puddle, every cracked pavement stone, every distant flicker of neon was alive with threads,
some faint, some screaming with potential. Tom Burro stood on the rooftop of an abandoned warehouse with Snowly at his side and the silver-haired woman,
his Soul Anchor , close behind, trembling but steady. Her eyes reflected the glow of his pulsing blue threads. “Okay,”
Tom muttered, fists clenched. “Tier II. Soul Anchor secured. Now what?”
Snowly’s tail flicked. “Now, you evolve. The System will demand synchronization , your eye, your Threads, and your Anchor must move as one. Only then can you begin countering Gabby’s corruption in real time.”
The woman shivered. “Synchronize with you?”
Tom nodded. “Yes. But it’s not just about me. We’re linking , our energy, our focus. You have to trust it completely, or it fails.”
“I I trust you,” she whispered.
“Soul Anchor Confirmation: Link Accepted. Tier II Evolution Initiating.”
Tom’s eye flared violently. Threads erupted from his body, wrapping around him, the woman, and Snowly. They hummed, resonating in perfect harmony.
Time seemed to slow, the city’s sounds fading into a low, vibrating hum. Snowly growls softly. “Feel it every thread, every probability, every outcome. Control it or it will control you.”
Tom’s vision expanded. He saw the streets below as a web of interlacing threads, red, blue, silver, black. Every human, every object, every potential event was connected.
He could see paths of survival, danger, and opportunity branching infinitely. “Whoa” he breathed. “I I can see everything.”
“Yes,” Snowly said, voice calm but tense.
“And Gabby knows it. He’s watching. Every move you make, every thread you claim, he will counter if you falter.”
A chill ran down Tom’s spine. He focused on the horizon, searching for the faint crimson threads signaling Gabby’s presence. There. Pulsing, slow deliberate. “Gabby’s near,”
Tom said, eye narrowing. “He’s testing me again.”
Snowly’s ears twitched. “Not testing. Hunting. Tier II Threads make you visible to him. And he’s already evolving faster than expected. You need to anticipate his moves.”
The woman’s hand tightened around his arm. “I I feel it too. Like energy is flowing through me.”
“That’s the link,” Tom said.
“Stay steady. Focus on me.”
He reached out with his eye, extending his perception into the city. Threads shifted, weaving around him and his Anchor, forming protective barriers and predictive paths.
He could see Gabby’s phantoms forming ahead, ready to strike. “Threat detected: Counter System Phantom Wave. Probability of survival 60%. Tier II Optimization required.”
Tom’s heart raced. “Then we optimize.”
Threads of blue light erupted from his body, slicing through the phantoms before they could reach the woman. Each strike was precise, guided by Tier II evolution ,
a mixture of instinct, prediction, and synchronized energy with his Soul Anchor. “Spirit Thread Efficiency: 92%. Probability Manipulation Active.”
Gabby’s voice echoed, faint but clear, carried on the wind. “Impressive but evolution is nothing without experience. One mistake and it’s over.”
Tom’s eye flared brighter. “Then I won’t make one.”
“Tier II Evolution Complete: 100%. Ability Unlocked: Probability Manipulation Predictive Strike.”
Suddenly, a phantom lunged from the shadows. Tom extended his hand, and the System calculated every potential trajectory, every vector.
Blue threads shot out, wrapping the phantom in a glowing net. It screamed and dissipated.“See?”
Tom whispered to his Anchor. “We’re ready.”
Snowly barked once. “Not fully. Gabby will escalate. This is just the beginning. But now you can fight on your terms.”
A faint ripple passed through the System. Crimson threads appeared on the horizon, Gabby, more visible than ever.
He was gathering phantoms, preparing a full-scale attack. Tom exhaled, fists glowing with blue light. “Then we take the fight to him.”
The woman’s hand pressed against his chest. “I I can feel your threads and mine, too. Together.”
“Soul Anchor Synchronization: Complete. Tier II Combat Readiness: Achieved.”
Snowly’s gaze hardened. “Good. Because once Gabby moves, you won’t have another chance to prepare. And this time, he won’t hold back.”
Lightning flashed over the skyline, illuminating two figures standing apart in the city , one consumed by corruption, the other awakening to destiny.
Tom’s eye glowed brighter than ever. “Then let him come. I’m ready.”
“Warning: Gabby Corruption Surge Detected Incoming Engagement Probability: 100%.”
The city trembled. Threads pulsed violently. The system hummed, alive with infinite possibilities. And somewhere in the shadows,
Gabby’s crimson eyes burned with anticipation. “The real game begins now.”
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CHAPTER 16 — THE FACE OF THE FIRST VESSEL
Tom could barely breathe.The armored man stood at the end of the Sanctum hall, silver flames reflecting off his mirror like eyes, the same eyes Tom saw every time he looked into water. His own eyes. His future eyes.Except this man’s spirit felt ancient. Heavy. Worn.Gabby whispered, “Tom, that guy looks like you.”Snowly stepped in front of Tom, fur bristling. “Vessel ,. Identify yourself,” he commanded, voice trembling with something close to reverence and fear.The armored man slowly removed the last clasp of his helmet.His hair fell forward long, silver white, perfectly matching Tom’s mother.His expression remained eerily calm.“I am not your enemy,” he said. “Not yet.”Tom forced himself to step forward. “Who are you?”The man tilted his head slightly. “I am the first successful Vessel of the Spirit Thread. The prototype. The beginning.”His gaze sharpened. “And you are the last.”Gabby muttered, “Great. Just great. So he’s like Tom but evil?”The man’s eyes flicked to Gabby. “I
CHAPTER 15 — THE WOMAN IN SILVER
The wind went still.Snow froze mid air, suspended like shards of white glass. Even the hunters stopped, rigid and unmoving, as if an invisible force had wrapped around the entire clearing.Tom stared at the hooded woman who looked exactly like his mother,only older, alive, and glowing with the same silver radiance as his bad eye.Snowly was the first to speak.His voice trembled,not in fear, but disbelief. “Liora?”Gabby blinked. “Liora? Wait,Tom’s mother? But she’s,”“Dead?” the woman finished, lowering her hood fully. Her hair spilled out,long, silver white, untouched by time. Her eyes glowed like polished moonstone. “I was supposed to be.”Tom couldn’t breathe. His chest tightened painfully. His voice cracked. “M-Mom?”The woman’s expression softened with both pride and sorrow. “Tom. My son.”The words hit him like a punch.Tom stepped forward, legs shaking.“You,but you died. I saw your grave. They told me,Father told me,Snowly said,”Snowly bowed his head. “Tom, I never lied. I tr
CHAPTER 14 — THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO BREAK
Snow covered the abandoned field like a thin white shroud .Tom Burro’s breathing came in ragged bursts as he pushed himself up from the frozen dirt.Bruises darkened his ribs.Blood trickled from his lip.But he stood.He always stood.Snowly, his white guardian dog, paced in front of him, fur bristling and glowing faintly. “Tom,” the dog warned, voice low and ancient, “we must leave. Now.”Tom wiped the blood from his mouth. “No. I’m done running.”Because the person walking toward them calm and amused was Gabby Miles Burro.His adopted brother and tormentor.The same boy who once tried to drown him in the well behind their old home and the very boy who believed he deserved everything Tom didn’t.Gabby stopped a few paces away and smiled. “Look at you. Still breathing. Still pretending you’re something more than a broken eyed freak.”Tom didn’t react. “If you are here to kill me, do it. Otherwise, stop wasting breath.”Gabby chuckled. “You think I came here just for that little ple
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Heart Thread Collapse
White light consumed everything, Sound and Air vanished while Time paused.Tom felt weightless ,like his body had separated from the world,floating between existence and nothingness. His heart thread pulsed erratically inside his chestlike a broken drum.“Corruption Saturation: 97%, 98%, WARNING,HEART THREAD UNSTABLE”Tom tried to breathe, but air wouldn’t come. “Tom!”A distant voice, a woman's voice Frantic, Breaking.The Soul Anchor.He forced his eyes to open.It was Blurry, too much Light and Pain as reality rushed back.He collapsed onto shattered concrete, clutching his chest. Blue threads around his body flickered like dying sparks.Snowly’s white fur bristled, teeth bared. “TOM, MOVE!”Gabby was still midstrike ,a crimson spear of condensed corruption inches from Tom’s heart.The city trembled beneath the force of it.The Soul Anchor threw herself in front of Tom,“NO,!” Tom managed to choke out,but Gabby’s spear was already descending ,Crimson, Sharp and Unstoppable. As Tim
CHAPTER TWELVE – The Breaking Point
The city was no longer a city but a battlefield made of threads as Blue lines hummed across rooftops.Silver threads pulsed like living veins.Crimson cracks tore through the ground like a wounded beast bleeding rage into the night.Tom Burro stood at the center of it,chest rising with each slow, heavy breath, Snowly snarling beside him, and the Soul Anchor gripping his arm, her silver thread wrapped around his like a lifeline,stitched by destiny itself. A cold wind swept through the ruins. Silence followed, it was too quiet but Snowly’s ears twitched. “He’s here.”The air suddenly tore open when Gabby stepped out of a rupture of crimson energy, threads swarming him like parasites. His smile was sharp,a predator satisfied with the terror he brought. “Well,”Gabby whispered, “look at you, little brother standing tall now.”Tom’s eye blazed white blue. “This ends tonight, Gabby.”Gabby’s laughter burst across the sky, shaking broken buildings. “Ends?"No!, not yet cause "tonight is w
CHAPTER ELEVEN – Tier III Threshold
The city groaned under the aftermath of Gabby’s previous assault. Smoke and debris coated the streets, neon lights flickering through the haze.Every puddle reflected threads of energy,blue, silver, crimson ,weaving a chaotic tapestry across the ruined skyline.Tom Burro crouched atop a shattered overpass, Snowly at his side, and the Soul Anchor gripping his arm. Threads of blue and silver hummed around him, pulsing with Tier II+mastery, yet something deeper stirred within the System. “Gabby’s close,”Snowly growled, nose twitching. “I can feel his crimson threads and they’re stronger, denser. He’s converging on your position. Full engagement imminent.”Tom’s eye narrowed. “Then we confront him. No more waiting.”The Soul Anchor’s silver thread pulsed in tandem with his blue. “I, I’m ready. Whatever comes, I’ll stay with you.”“Soul Anchor Synchronization: 100%. Tier II+ Fully Operational. Tier III Potential Detected , Preliminary Activation Available.”From the misty streets below, G
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