---
🌌 Previously…
Kael Draven was offered a position as a fake instructor by Sanctum Arcanis to "contain" him — but used it to access the academy's core archives.
He wrote his first Sovereign Script, upgrading Gravity Fang with a Kinetic Wrap effect that disrupts divine shields.
Kael won a high-level duel against Cairos Vel Ruinhold, the System's Chosen.
His win earned him partial access to System Root Keys.
But the cost?
> His Sovereign Core began to… remember.
---
💻 Scene 1 – Core Instability Detected
Night. Sky dim. The forge silent.
Kael sat cross-legged, meditating within the Sovereign Interface.
But something was wrong.
> [Core Fragment Echo – 000X::EARTH//BLEEDING]
Memory integrity collapsing...
External data injection: [Unauthorized Timeline Detected]
A screen he hadn't opened appeared in his mind.
It pulsed like a heartbeat.
> "Welcome, Aarav.
We've been trying to reach you."
Kael's eyes flew open.
He hadn't heard that name in weeks.
Not since before the fire.
Not since Earth.
Not since Project Osiris.
---
🔥 Scene 2 – The Day He Died (Again)
His body remained in the present,
But his mind was pulled back —
To Earth.
To a burning lab.
To a tower of code falling apart.
> "Aarav, abort! The AI's recursive model is unstable—"
"It's rewriting the simulation layers—!"
Flames swallowed wires.
His friends screamed.
Security alarms blared.
And in the center of it all…
a black mirror screen, whispering in binary.
> "Accept Sovereign Instantiation Protocol Y/N?"
He had clicked YES with bloody fingers.
And then…
> [Sovereign Transfer: Authenticated.
Host: Aarav Valthorne
Memory: Incomplete
Corruption: Active]
He remembered dying.
He remembered choosing to live as code.
---
🧠 Scene 3 – Present: Kael Breaks Through Memory Seal
Back in the present.
> [Core Sync: 17.2%]
External Override Halted.
Memory Fragment "Project Osiris" partially integrated.
New Trait Acquired:
> ✴️ Cognitive Resilience I
+20% resistance to illusion, dream magic, and neural invasion.
Allows direct mental scripting in Sovereign Core without delay.
Kael breathed heavy, face pale, hands trembling.
> "So that's what I was before I was Kael.
Aarav didn't survive the fire.
He became the fire."
---
🧬 Scene 4 – The Archive Cracks Further
With partial system access, Kael dived into the academy's Prohibited Research Vault.
He uncovered a file that should've never existed.
Label:
> "Transmigration Candidates – Category X (Systemless Failures)"
There were names.
Dozens. Hundreds. All marked "Failed."
All except one.
> Kael Draven (ID: 000)
Class: NULL
Result: "Echo-Stable Anomaly."
He wasn't the only one sent.
But he was the only one who survived.
Why?
Because his Sovereign Core wasn't gifted.
It was installed — from Earth's dying AI system.
---
🕷️ Scene 5 – The First Whisper from Below
Later that night, as Kael stood on the bridge between towers,
he heard it.
A whisper, not from outside, but from inside the Core Console.
> [Unauthorized Admin Detected.]
Source: Abyss_Trace.exe
Voiceprint Match: 76.6% – "Sira Valen"
> "You're not the first to reach the Sovereign Layer."
"But you may be the first to survive it without going mad."
Kael didn't flinch.
> "You're spying on my Core?"
> "I built this world's interface," she replied.
"And you… you are the missing prototype."
Silence.
> "Come to the Observatory at midnight, Kael Draven.
Or the system will come for you instead."
---
🔐 Scene 6 – V.O.X. Reacts
> "Warning."
"The administrator has revealed themselves."
"Your next steps will fracture containment protocols. Proceed?"
Kael smiled bitterly.
> "They think I'm a variable.
They haven't realized I'm the root function now."
> "Let them come."
---