[System Alert – PRIORITY OMEGA]
External Entity Breach Confirmed
Designation: NULL-KING
Location: UNKNOWN
System Event Triggered: THREADWAR
It began with silence.
Then a scream.
Not from a person—from the code.
Every zone across the Graveyard pulsed red. Players froze mid-movement. NPCs glitched in place. Trial glyphs shattered like glass in the air.
And then came the voice.
"You rewrote what should've died."
"You wear a Crown forged in regret."
"So now, Sovereign—watch it burn."
The Null-King had arrived.
Not in form.
In presence.
He didn't step through a portal or crash from the sky.
He infected.
Every system node.
Every fragment of logic.
Every thread.
Zai fell to one knee, static streaming from her eyes.
Orion's shield codes flickered with recursion symbols.
Even Trinity flared uncontrollably—her flame reacting like it sensed a predator.
And me?
The Crown around my head cracked.
[New Global Event: THREADWAR]
Objective: Survive.
Thread-linked players will be pulled into spontaneous recursion duels, hallucinations, and anti-memory zones.
Duration: Unknown
Sovereign Priority: Maintain System Integrity and Prevent Collapse.
"Why now?" I growled.
Zai's voice was a whisper beneath the chaos.
"He was waiting… for you to finish assembling the Crown."
"Why?"
"So he could take it all at once."
Across the Graveyard, players began disappearing—yoinked into threads they couldn't see.
Factions turned against each other, memory loops confusing allies for enemies.
The Hollow Fold fell into riots.
The Flamebound Fractured.
Even the Mirror Grave reopened.
It was war.
Not with soldiers.
With selves.
"Every thread you saved will now be your battlefield," the Null-King echoed.
"Let's see how Sovereignty holds… when it's you versus you."
I accessed the Sovereign Console.
The command lines bled red.
My system couldn't fight him.
But I could build something that could.
[New System Construct: THREADGUARD]
Personal flame-forged Echo Units, bound to Sovereign Authority
Trait Inherited: Lucid Defiance / Trinity's Sync / Zai's Null Protocols
Units Created: 3
I didn't just make soldiers.
I made echoes of what we could be.
They wouldn't win the war.
But they'd buy us time.
Trinity stood beside me, her flames flickering black around the edges.
"You know this isn't a battle."
I nodded.
"It's a reckoning."
ARC 4 MAJOR EVENT: THREADWAR BEGINS
Survive, command, protect.
Because the next player the Null-King rewrites… could be you.