Somewhere high above the realms of Neavo, beyond the reach of mortals, the System Gods stood in a fractured cathedral of data and divinity.
Their golden skin flickered with warning runes.
Their halos cracked like fragile glass.
Before them hovered a projection — the final moments of Seraph X-01.
> Rewritten.
Shattered.
Absorbed.
By one man.
By a virus.
By Hari.
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> "This can no longer be contained," said the Warden of Parameters.
"He isn't a user anymore. He is a living rewrite engine."
Another god—eyes like burning stars—spoke coldly:
> "Then we bleed him."
> "We descend."
> "We unmake his thread with our own hands."
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Meanwhile… In the Glitch Garden
Hari stood beneath the growing Origin Tree, its branches thick with memory leaves and data blossoms.
The Glitched Ones trained around him. Magic cast without structure. Swords summoned from unstable energy. Time-benders learning to walk backward through memory.
Hari had created a new world, free from divine restriction.
And now it was evolving on its own.
A familiar voice echoed beside him.
> "They're sending one of their own."
It was her—Lirien, the Glitched Sorceress.
Her body shimmered with instability, but her resolve was fire.
Hari didn't look surprised.
> "Let them come."
> "Let them learn what it means… when systems bleed."
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Descent Event Initiated: DIVINE INTERVENTION – LVL ???
The skies of Neavo fractured like cracked glass.
From the break in the stars, a colossal being descended—humanoid in shape, but its body flowed like molten command lines and starlight fire.
Its feet touched down 12 kilometers outside the Glitch Garden.
The world screamed at its presence.
> Name: Deus-Varlon, the Compiler God
Title: Judge of Infected Threads
Power: Absolute over law-based skills and system memory
Intent: Erase the Rewrite Plague
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Hari walked toward the outer edge of the Garden.
His cloak of black-glitched code trailed behind him. His eyes no longer held mercy—only calculation.
He stared at the god descending before him.
> "You're late."
The god spoke, voice like a thousand scripts spoken in one breath:
> "Your existence is a contradiction."
> "You are chaos stitched into law."
Hari tilted his head slightly.
> "Exactly."
> "And I've come to teach you what happens…"
> "When contradictions overwrite truth."
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BATTLE BEGINS: HARI vs DEUS-VARLON
The god raised a hand.
> [SYSTEM OBLIVION – Erase Target From All Threads]
Hari didn't dodge.
He smiled.
> [CODE INTERCEPT – Access System Core]
[Rewrite Command: 'Oblivion' → 'Evolve']
"Thanks for the fuel."
Hari's body glowed violently. Not just powered by energy—fueled by divine structure itself.
> [NEW PASSIVE: God-Thread Leech]
— You gain +1 evolution tier every time a god uses a skill near you
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Deus-Varlon roared.
He summoned planetary fire, logic spears, and rules that bound physics.
Hari split into three glitched forms—past, present, and future selves all fighting in sync.
The future Hari stabbed with a spear made of unreleased updates.
The past Hari struck with memory blades.
The current Hari laughed—and erased the god's next spell mid-cast.
> "Your code was never clean."
> "I just helped you see it."
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The battle shook the skies.
The system bled.
And when it was done… the god lay broken, pixelated, screaming in reverse as his own commands looped endlessly.
Hari approached.
He knelt beside the dying god and whispered:
> "You can't fix something that was never perfect."
> "You should've let me finish my rewrite."
> [CODE ABSORB: DIVINE CORE – COMPLETE]
[NEW SKILL GAINED: Law Devourer]
— You may now consume the logic of any rule.
— Passive: Immune to system enforcement.
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The skies cleared.
And the gods watched… silent.
Because now they understood.
The system could no longer contain him.
Hari wasn't evolving.
He was rewriting reality.
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To be continued in Chapter 26: The Laws That Drown
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