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Chapter 154
CosmosDragon’s voice had just confirmed the impossible: an Origin Entity, designated Aetherbound, was active. And it wasn’t Spiral-Jack.It was something else entirely."Cosmos," Jack said, voice low and controlled, "are we sure it’s not residual signal bleed?""Confirmed. Harmonic imprint is stable, independent, and not derived from Spiral-Jack. Designation precedes even Proto-Axis records."Emily took a half-step back, clutching the now-pulsing pendant. "It’s glowing more. The closer we get to this... Aetherbound."Mira moved to the interface and began typing commands furiously. "Cross-referencing with the Orion Vault, the Celestial Logs, even forbidden Deepsight protocols. Nothing. Nothing matches. Except...""Except what?" Sarah asked."There’s a forbidden entry. Not a name. A warning: 'Do not wake the dreamer beneath the lattice.'"Jack closed his eyes for a moment, grounding himself. Then he opened them, full of iron resolve."Set course for Pacifica. We open the Gate."The Haid
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Jack didn’t move.The stars outside the observatory window shimmered with unnatural rhythm, like they were being rearranged."Repeat the last transmission," Jack said tightly.CosmosDragon obeyed. The spectral voice returned, layered beneath the celestial hum:**"He remembers me. I remember him. I am coming home."**Emily took a step forward, voice trembling. "That didn’t sound like a threat. It sounded like a promise."Sarah frowned. "Or a warning."Mira expanded the holographic projection, isolating the signal frequency. A translucent ribbon unfurled across the room, etched with symbols that pulsed between geometry and sound."This doesn’t match any known Arkitect coding or Root dialects," Mira said. "It’s older. This is... pre-schematic.""Pre-schematic?" Lena echoed. "As in... before the Archive?""Before everything," Mira whispered.Jack folded his arms. "Then we’re dealing with something the Arkitects either sealed away... or were running from."CosmosDragon chimed in. "Signal t
Chapter 152
Jack moved toward the observation deck, each step echoing in the warping chamber as CosmosDragon struggled to recalibrate. "Stabilize the lattice field," he ordered. "Attempting," the AI responded, its voice flickering with static. "But external input has compromised harmonic alignment." Sarah helped Emily to her feet. "Are you okay?" Emily nodded weakly. "It's like my mind was stretched across two lifetimes. One mine. One... not." They reached the viewing platform just in time to see the glowing object rise slightly above the impact crater. It spun in slow, deliberate patterns, etched in strange glyphs that shimmered between language and emotion. Mira joined them. "The lattice recognizes that structure." "How?" Lena asked. Mira's eyes were wide, fearful. "Because it was never meant to be found again. That design matches the Proto-Axis—the Key of First Memory." Jack stepped closer to the glass. "The Arkitects created that." Emily touched her head. "And now the Remnant has sum
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Jack didn’t breathe for a full five seconds.Sarah was already moving, sprinting toward the internal command hub. Jack followed, steps heavy, the air thick with static. CosmosDragon's emergency lighting flickered crimson, throwing warped shadows down the corridor.“She was in the lower wing,” Sarah shouted. “She wasn’t alone! Dr. Mira had her interface node on file.”“Pull all feeds. Sound. Thermal. Psychic.” Jack said.CosmosDragon responded in real time. “Initiating memory echo scan. Cross-referencing all dimensional overlays.”They entered the control nexus. Dozens of screens flared to life, scrolling with cascading errors.“Nothing,” Sarah said, frowning. “It’s like she just... blinked out.”Lena appeared via holo, breathless. “I was two floors up when it happened. No spike, no surge. One second she was logged into the lattice, and then—void.”Jack moved to the central panel. “Replay the last ten seconds before the breach.”A recording began: Emily standing by a console, her finge
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The hallways of TerraCore’s MetaWing hummed with quiet pulses of crystalline light. Jack walked alone, deeper into the section no other human had accessed since the facility's construction. Not even Sarah or Emily followed.Only CosmosDragon did.“You are approaching the Codex Core,” the AI intoned gently. “This chamber was built in anticipation of truths too heavy for collective minds. It is shielded. Isolated. Designed for confession.”Jack said nothing.He reached the doorway. The metal melted away at his presence, sensing him not by code, but by resonance. The hum of the lattice receded. Silence enveloped him.Inside was a single chair, a microphone, and a thin halo of light.And for a moment, he simply breathed.Then he spoke shockingly."I killed him."The words echoed loudly.“I didn’t tell anyone. Not Emily. Not Sarah. Not even Old Joe’s grave.”“Victor Krane didn’t die in a lab accident. That was a lie we agreed to bury. I killed him. With my hands. Because I believed the wor
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The silence after the warning felt deafening. Inside the command bay of the vessel Lucent-7, everyone stood frozen as the lattice trembled.Across the holographic table, Jack Parker stared into the shadowed eyes of his own twisted reflection—echo-Jack.CosmosDragon’s voice echoed again, still layered in thousands of harmonized frequencies, but now laced with tension:"Rupture Duplication Rate: 4. Dispersal Point: Temporal Nodes Alpha, Delta, and Epsilon. Fourth Unknown. Cross-checking biometric patterns… Confirmation: all are Jack Parker variants."Emily pressed her palm against the glowing interface, eyes scanning streams of cascading data. “He’s spread himself across the timeline. Not just as copies… but alternatives.”Dr. Bradley shook his head in disbelief. “This isn’t cloning. This is refractive consciousness. He’s accessing potential versions of Jack that exist simultaneously.”Sarah lowered her weapon, stepping beside Jack. “So they’re all… you. But taken from paths you didn’t
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