Pure code. Absolute balance. But no reality is ever truly safe.
Cain.Omega had been silent for days.
In Worldline Omega—the Reset Fork—no one spoke unless it was deemed logically necessary. The cities were symmetrical, the skies rendered in high-definition stability, and citizens were generated only if they were efficient to the system's processes.
Yet something was breaking the calm.
He stood on the edge of the Glass Plateau, watching a long vertical crack run through the pure-coded ground.
> [REALITY THREAD BREACH DETECTED. SOURCE: FORK - ALPHA.]
Cain.Omega clenched his glowing-white fists.
Across the timeline layers, Cain.exe was destabilizing the universe.
The surge from Alpha had reached Omega. Logic was breaking down. Already, civilians were experiencing things like emotion, and imagination scripts were firing out of bounds.
Even his support AI, Solace.0, voiced concern.
> "Prince Omega. Suggest containment. Suggest weaponization of unclean energy."
> "No," Cain replied. "We purged once. We'll purify again."
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He stepped into the Purity Armory, a massive cathedral of System-forged artifacts. Hovering above him were items created only for Omega: the Equilibrium Blade, the Core Purifier, and the Reality Gavel—tools designed not to destroy, but to reset existence.
He equipped all three.
> [ARMORY LOCK: TRINITY EXECUTION PROTOCOL ENABLED.]
The moment he finished, the world began to shake.
Dozens of Reality Ghosts—coded fragments from corrupted timelines—began appearing across the skyline. These weren't real beings. They were echoes of Cain.exe's war: shadows of people saved or erased in the other forks.
Among them, Evelyn.
Not real.
But Cain.Omega froze.
She mouthed a word he hadn't heard in this world:
> "Hope."
And then the ghosts screamed.
The reset realm was under siege from across realities.
> [WARNING: MULTIVERSAL BRIDGE IMMINENT.]
[ALERT: UNAUTHORIZED ENTITY CAIN.EXE ATTEMPTING ENTRY.]
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A glowing red rift cracked across the sky.
From it, stepped Cain.exe.
Glitched, defiant, alive.
He didn't speak.
But both versions locked eyes. They knew. Their convergence was destined.
This was no longer about survival. It was about deciding which version of Cain—Reset or Broken—would become the True Sovereign of the System Multiverse.