The sword struck the code-thread like a guillotine through silk.
A pulse of corrupted logic rippled out in concentric waves, turning the very laws of this world into scrambled data. The ground beneath Kai melted into runes and error messages. The sky, once empty and gray, now bled syntax.
> [ERROR: CORE LOGIC BREACH]
[ERROR: ERROR: ERROR: Recursive Fault Loop]
The Archivist recoiled, its body flickering between perfect form and raw binary static. Its floating book—once an eternal script—snapped shut.
"You… you're fracturing continuity itself," it stammered, sounding less divine and more human by the second. "You are becoming a null anchor—a virus."
Kai grinned, sword resting on his shoulder like a sledgehammer. "Wrong. I'm not a virus."
He took one step forward. The world cracked.
> "I'm the editor."
---
[Skill: Narrative Override Lv.1 — Evolution in Progress]
[New Trait Acquired: "Null Anchor"]
> You are no longer bound by chronological cause and effect.
Plot corrections cannot apply while anchored.
[Penalty: Temporal Drift Risk – Increasing Anomaly Threat Level to Tier: Divine Hazard]
> "Good," Kai muttered. "Let them come."
---
The Archivist raised both hands, and with them, the sky opened again—not with light, but with pages.
A book unfolded across the heavens: a god-script of all timelines.
Kai could see them—strings of lives, each character dancing in their assigned roles like marionettes. Heroes, villains, sacrifices. Love interests doomed to die. Saviors doomed to fail.
The Archivist shouted: "Return to your role and you may yet die cleanly."
Kai laughed, eyes fixed on the writhing script above.
"No."
He stabbed his sword into the air, again—this time through one of the visible fate-lines.
> A scream echoed across all of reality.
---
Somewhere far away, in a world not yet seen, a priest who was about to receive a prophecy… choked and died mid-ritual.
In another, a destined duel between light and dark… stalled, both swords frozen midair.
A ripple of silence passed through the multiverse.
---
[System Alert: Multi-World Narrative Disruption Detected]
[Universal Order Designates You: Class Ω Threat — The Trialbreaker]
---
Kai raised his hand again. His interface flickered—fighting him—but it obeyed.
[New Skill: World Hack – Lv.0.1]
> Allows temporary access to lower narrative structures. 10-second window. Massive instability.
Use at your own risk.
He didn't hesitate.
Command: OPEN BRANCH: PRIMARY WORLD – "Originverse"
Command: INSERT ENTITY – Trialbreaker Kai
Command Status: UNAUTHORIZED
Result: OVERRIDE
---
A doorway opened.
Not a gate, not a portal—a literal rip in story structure.
Beyond it: a fully intact narrative world. One of the mainline universes, untouched by corruption.
The kind the system actually cares about.
Kai smiled like a man with a gun in a church.
> "Let's see how long their favorite story lasts once I walk in."
He stepped through.