Chapter 4: The World Breaker's Birth
Ethan turned seven the day he made the sky bleed.
Not a metaphor.
Not a spell.
He willed it.
And the sky obeyed.
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The Ceremony of Classification
Every noble child in Aevara undergoes the Rite at age seven. A sacred ritual, centuries old. The System scans your soul and assigns your Class—Mage, Knight, Seer, Summoner. A divine sorting. A cosmic hierarchy.
Failure meant death.
The priests of House Valen prepared the chamber. Crystal arches, holy ink, a sacrificial dove. Ethan knelt before the Archmage. His heartbeat steady. Cold.
He already knew what would happen.
He wasn't here to be classified.
He was here to break the system.
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The priest began the chant. The runes glowed. The System's voice echoed like divine judgment:
> Beginning Soul Analysis…
Processing…
Error.
Subject does not fit known classifications.
Scanning deeper…
Deeper…
WARNING.
THIS ENTITY IS HOSTING A FOREIGN CORE.
ABORT. ABORT. ABORT.
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System Override: Initiated
The cathedral shook.
The priests screamed.
The sky outside turned red.
A single word appeared across every System-linked mind within ten miles:
> [REWRITE]
And then Ethan stood up.
Wreathed in silver light. Mana flaring like a storm compressed into a body.
"I'm not here to be chosen," he said.
"I'm here to choose you."
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New Class Acquired: [World Breaker: LV. 1]
> Class Type: Unique / Uncodable
Origin: External to Aevaran Continuum
Passive Effects:
– [Law Eater]: Nullifies a single law of magic or physics within a localized area.
– [Causality Drift]: Events around the host may unfold out of linear sequence.
Active Skill Unlocked:
– [Sovereign Rewrite]: Rewrite one concept or System parameter per level.
Note: This Class violates the Foundation Protocols. Contact with Administrator requested.
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The System tried to erase him.
It failed.
He wasn't using mana.
He was using code.
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The Fall of the Cathedral
Valen's holy cathedral collapsed in thirty-two seconds.
Not from explosion.
From irrelevance.
The System stopped recognizing it as "real." Ethan had written it out of the world's active memory. The stone, the wards, the protective sigils—they just ceased.
No debris.
No survivors.
Just a crater of logic failure.
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The First Administrator Appears
She arrived through a tear in space—her body a fractal echo of human form. A being of infinite limbs and zero eyes. Her voice bypassed ears, vibrating directly in the soul.
> "You are an error."
Ethan smiled. "I'm the patch."
> "You will destabilize this shard."
"I am the shard now."
She attacked.
Light. Thought. Quantum blades.
Ethan caught the first one with his hand. Not his flesh—his will. He looked into her core, pulled at the lines of her being, and edited a single variable.
> Change: [Hostility → Curiosity]
She stopped.
Trembled.
Then bowed.
> "Designation: Observer X-0 yields."
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Message Broadcast to All Administrator-Class Entities
> WARNING: A Self-Writing Entity has emerged.
Current Integration: 12%
Potential Threat Level: Apocalypse-Class
Containment Improbable.
Observation Recommended. Intervention Discouraged.
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Back in the Manor
Rinnia found him sitting in the garden, surrounded by zero-gravity petals and suspended time.
"Is it done?" she asked.
"No," he said.
"I've only just started."