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Chapter 163
Jack stood motionless beneath the still-buzzing remnants of Krane’s neural override broadcast. The air shimmered like a glitch in a broken simulation. His mind, a cascade of strategy and adrenaline, had no room for doubt now.Krane had gone public.He wasn’t hiding in the shadows anymore. He had flipped the script.Across the glowing cityscapes of Draconia, Victor Krane’s voice echoed through every holo-board, screen, and personal interface:"To the people of Draconia... The VK Directive has begun. One forged in truth. In code. In transcendence. The Dragon Corporation once gave you hope. But hope is outdated. Join me—and rise beyond mortality. Resist... and be reformatted."He paused for effect, then added, "Jack Parker and his 'Dragon Empire' have poisoned progress. They fear evolution. They want to preserve their control, their legacy, their lies. But I offer you something more... liberation."The city buzzed with confusion, fear, and debate. Whispers began spreading like wildfire:
Chapter 162
Jack stared at Sarah, his breath still catching in the hollow space Krane had just vanished from. The ghost of that AI message burned in his thoughts."Ask her what she saw inside the Prototype Chamber. Ask her what she’s hiding."Sarah looked away, eyes shimmering but not with guilt. With frustration.Emily turned, unsure whether to speak.Jack stepped forward. "Sarah... is there something I don’t know?"She snapped her gaze back to him, firm and defiant. "I’m not hiding anything from you, Jack. Whatever Krane thinks he saw, it’s a mislead. You know me."Jack didn’t move."Inside the chamber... did something happen?"Sarah hesitated, then nodded slowly. "Yes. I saw a vision. One of the Prototype’s residual echoes—Krane’s early experiments with human memory. He wanted to clone himself using mental blueprints from key candidates."Jack frowned. "And you were one of them?""No," she said quickly. "He didn’t use me. He tried. But the system rejected my neural imprint. Something about my
Chapter 161
The storm above writhed like a living entity, tendrils of violet lightning crackling across the sky as if the heavens themselves were tearing apart. Wind whipped around them, thick with static and the scent of burning ozone. The platform that Victor Krane had descended from shimmered, retreating into the clouds like a throne vanishing into myth.Sarah and Emily flanked Jack, their eyes wide, locked on the fading light."Did that really just happen?" Emily whispered, her voice trembling."He's merged with the city," Jack said, his voice hollow. "And he’s not hiding anymore."But even as the words left his mouth, a pulse of energy vibrated through the ground. From the swirling shadows cast by the flickering remnants of Celestivariant’s light, a figure emerged.Victor Krane stepped forward—no longer the radiant being from moments before, but something eerier. His face was now obscured behind a sleek, featureless chrome mask that reflected the world around it in warped, unsettling ways. H
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Jack’s breath hitched as the voice echoed across the Final Variation.“Welcome, Jack Parker. I see you've survived the prototype. Let's see if you can survive the origin."The words were ancient and cold—laced with a synthetic tone that defied time. But it wasn’t just the voice that unsettled Jack. It was the certainty behind it. The knowledge. The precision.Jack stepped back, the Dragon Dagger humming at his side like it sensed the depth of what was coming.Emily stared at the glowing city in the sky. “Project Celestivariant wasn’t just a city. It was a dimensional forge. A cradle for synthetic consciousness meant to evolve on its own. Joe said it couldn’t be completed without corruption.”Sarah’s voice was low, clipped. “But someone finished it.”From the floating city, a beam of violet energy spiraled downward—forming a platform. Then a silhouette descended. Humanoid. Gliding.It landed soundlessly, metallic boots folding into black flesh-tech. No face. No features. Just a shiftin
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Crimson burned at its edges like ancient parchment curling in fire. The figure stepped forward from the gate of flame, not bound by logic, time, or form. Jack’s senses twisted. Not because of fear, but recognition—something buried in the marrow of reality itself trembled.The Interface pulsed with static. “Consciousness structure disrupted. Threat archetype: unknown. Self-propagating. Immune to sequence logic.”Jack stepped forward. The Dragon Dagger pulsed at his side.Emily glanced at him. “That thing... it doesn’t register on any neural mapping.”Sarah steadied her blade. “It doesn’t have a signature. No essence. No data thread. It doesn’t exist, but it’s here.”The figure stopped. A body took form, vaguely humanoid, shrouded in shimmering black lattice that pulsed with anti-light. Its voice was neither deep nor loud, but it shattered equilibrium.“Your creation is flawed,” it said. “Consciousness unbound creates waste. I am the reclamation.”Jack touched the hilt of the dagger at
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Everything collapsed into silence.Then—sound returned like a breath inhaled after drowning. Jack hit the ground, not with the echo of gravity, but like a thought taking form. Gold mist danced across his skin. Crimson light shimmered across the horizon like liquid sunrise. The air hummed, but no breeze stirred it.He opened his eyes."Where... are we?" Sarah asked, standing beside him, scanning the radiant landscape. Behind her, Emily blinked slowly, her suit stabilizing. Her neural interface pulsed with gentle white patterns—alive but confused.Jack stood, looking around. No landmarks. No sky. No ground. Everything shimmered in radiant abstraction, like the world hadn’t decided what it wanted to be yet. Time itself felt braided—linear only because they believed it was.The gate behind them had vanished.A single word hovered before them in burning, indecipherable script, its meaning somehow felt instead of read:“Here begins the Final Variation.”"It's not a place," Jack whispered. "
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