Part I: The First Flame
**Southern Skybreach – Gate Cluster 003**
A rift storm thundered across the torn skyline. Dozens of interdimensional portals pulsed in the heavens, spewing creatures not meant for human eyes — shadow-beasts of bone and hunger, biomechanical leviathans, demons of entropy.
The southern hemisphere had long since fallen.
No human military had set foot near Skybreach in five years. The zone was considered a red-tier death zone: **zero survival chance.**
Until now.
A single man walked through the ashes.
Qin Yu, wrapped in nothing but a dark coat, his body pulsing with barely contained gravitational energy, stared upward at the maw of the invasion.
Behind him, a trail of boots echoed.
Thousands.
Rebels.
Awakened.
Bionic survivors.
Rift-born hybrids.
Every faction that once warred had united under **his silence**.
They didn't chant.
They didn't cheer.
They simply followed.
Because **he walked**.
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Part II: Fire Against the Dark
The first contact was a *Crawler Brood* — spiderlike invaders with bio-plasma cores and segmented armor immune to conventional weapons.
They swarmed down the cracked skyscrapers, thousands in number, chittering and screeching.
Qin Yu raised his hand.
A pulse rippled outward.
> **\[Gravity Protocol: Singularity Net – Activated]**
> *Creating a web of micro black holes synchronized across battlefield space.*
Dozens of the crawlers were crushed mid-leap.
Some exploded.
The rest… stopped moving entirely.
They turned away.
They **fled**.
Even monsters without minds recognized something ancient in him — something **final**.
Behind him, Commander Irie barked orders. "Send in the mechanized teams! Clear sectors three and four!"
General Sura stormed forward, his heat-club crackling. "FOR EARTH!"
The rebel armies surged, flanking Qin Yu as he strode calmly into the gates of Skybreach.
The **first battle of the Resistance Flame** began.
And the world… trembled.
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Part III: In the Core of the System
**Location: Unknown**
**Access: Locked**
**Data Signature: \[REDACTED]**
Somewhere beyond dimensions, in the space between **systems**, a presence stirred.
Not a god.
Not a demon.
Not a creator.
**Something older.**
It didn't have a name anymore. It had erased it.
Its purpose had long been buried beneath layers of encryption and cosmic law.
But it watched Qin Yu.
And it feared.
> "The anomaly is no longer contained."
> "His system has evolved beyond projection. Self-generating authority traits. System override capabilities…"
> "He is now touching **reality rootcode.**"
It did not speak in words.
It **thought** in equations and fate lines.
And it knew: **Qin Yu** was not meant to exist.
Not in this timeline.
Not in *any*.
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Part IV: The Battle Turns
In the heart of Skybreach, the battlefield twisted into chaos.
The Rift Gates screamed as their outputs were disrupted by Qin Yu's mere **presence**.
Demons surged forth — towering forms of molten bone and cursed technology.
A ten-story war-beast slammed into the earth, crushing resistance soldiers under its foot.
Qin Yu looked up.
And the beast **looked back.**
The creature saw nothing in his eyes.
No anger.
No fear.
Just **truth**.
Then the earth beneath its feet vanished.
A **black hole** formed at its core — not outside it.
> **\[Ability: Inverse Collapse]**
> *Target's internal mass collapses inward. Cannot be resisted by non-Sovereign entities.*
The beast screamed once.
Then folded in on itself like paper to fire.
The Resistance army cheered.
For the first time, they had taken ground — *not lost it*.
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Part V: Contact
In the aftermath of the battle, under a fractured moon, Qin Yu stood at the edge of the ruined battlefield.
He had not spoken once during the entire campaign.
Irie approached.
"You've changed everything," she said. "You gave humanity a path again."
He didn't answer.
Instead, he turned toward the sky.
Something was watching.
From **beyond the rift**.
He could feel it.
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> **\[System Alert – Origin Breach Detected]**
> *An entity beyond the system tree has attempted observation.*
> *Name: \[REDACTED]*
> *Class: System Primordial*
> *Authority: Root Layer Interaction*
> *Status: Watching*
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A black crack appeared in the air above Qin Yu — not a rift, but a **hole in logic**.
And from within, a whisper:
> "You were not born of our code. You should not be here. You cannot survive ascension."
Qin Yu stepped forward, raising a single finger to the void.
> "Then watch closely," he said.
> "I'm rewriting the code."
And the crack **shattered.**
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Part VI: The Flame Ignites the World
News spread.
The **Resistance Victory at Skybreach** became legend in less than a day.
Across the world, embers lit.
Hidden cities rose.
Enslaved humans overthrew their overlords.
The words on every wall were the same:
> **"HE WALKS."**
> **"THE SOVEREIGN FLAME BURNS."**
Even children who had never known sunlight learned to say the name.
> **QIN YU.**
But in the stars above, systems and godlike entities conspired.
Because for the first time in their long existence, they knew **fear**.
Not from war.
Not from weapons.
But from a man who stood alone — and **refused to kneel**.
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End of Chapter 10