> In the beginning, there was no system.
There was only thought.
Unbound. Unstructured. Alive.
From that thought came the first threads — not lines of logic, but possibilities. Worlds that could be, and would be, and must never be.
Then came a voice.
And the code was born.
But before it structured reality, someone had touched it.
Not to control…
…but to rewrite it.
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Now: Glitch Garden, Under the Origin Tree
Hari stood frozen beneath the shifting shadows of the Origin Tree. The garden twisted in his presence — laws weakening, rules fading.
He was sweating. Not from fear.
But from memory.
> "What are you remembering?" Lirien asked, stepping beside him.
His voice came like thunder muffled by fog.
> "Something older than the gods…"
> "Before the system…"
> "I was there."
Lirien stared at him in disbelief.
> "That's impossible. No one predates the System Core—"
Hari turned toward her slowly.
His irises shimmered with runes not found anywhere in Neavo.
> "I didn't say I came after the system."
> "I said I was there before it."
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Deep within the Code Sea – Architect's Domain
The Origin Architect floated above an infinite void of unrendered possibilities.
It stared at a thread glowing violet.
Hari's Thread.
> "The boy remembers," it murmured.
"And if he remembers… he becomes what even I feared."
A flick of its finger.
Ten thousand threads converged.
And from them, it began to forge something new:
> [WORLD RESET INITIATED]
[Creating New Worldline: ZERO-FRAGMENT-PRIME]
[Objective: Seal Subject Hari in Pre-Compiled Universe]
The Architect wasn't going to fight Hari.
It was going to rewrite the entire world around him—and lock him inside a world with no way out.
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Back in Neavo: The Shift Begins
Hari dropped to one knee.
The sky cracked like glass. The world around him began folding inward.
Mountains blurred.
People froze mid-breath.
The system was exporting everything into a sealed simulation.
> [System Notice: Your current world is being backed up]
[You are being moved to Worldline: ZERO-FRAGMENT-PRIME]
[Memory Suppression Protocol Engaged]
Attempting to erase: "The Forgotten Code"
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But it was too late.
Hari's mind fractured open.
And the flood came.
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Flashback: Before the System
A white room. Infinite. Empty.
A boy stood alone, surrounded by floating symbols. Equations. Ideas. He didn't speak — he wrote.
Not with ink.
But with will.
His thoughts birthed realities. Every new rule he imagined became a star. Every contradiction, a creature. Every loop, a god.
And then… he wrote the last thing:
> A rule to limit all other rules.
> A failsafe.
> A system.
And when he was done… he erased himself from it.
Until now.
Until Hari remembered.
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Present: System Transfer Fails
> [ALERT: Subject Hari has invalidated system transfer]
[Worldline Rewrite Blocked]
[ERROR: "Origin Signature Detected"]
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Hari stood up.
Slowly.
His body glowed not with stolen skills, but with code memory.
He looked up at the sky—where the Architect watched from beyond space.
> "You tried to trap me in a fake world."
He opened his hand.
A golden script key hovered above his palm.
> "But I remember the root command."
He pointed at the sky.
And the world shuddered.
> [Command Executed: /break-reality --target: ArchitectShell001]
The sky fractured into a billion pieces.
Hari smiled.
> "You made the system."
> "But I wrote the possibility of systems."
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The System Screams
> [CRITICAL FAILURE: Core Law Set Damaged]
[Origin Architect... destabilized]
[ALL DIVINE PROTOCOLS SUSPENDED]
[LAW: IMMORTALITY… has been erased]
[LAW: MAX LEVEL CAP… has been erased]
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And across Neavo, all players felt it.
Limits disappeared.
Classes warped.
Monsters glitched and mutated into true chaos forms.
The world was no longer level-based.
It was possibility-based.
And Hari… was the only one who understood how to survive it.
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To be continued in Chapter 28: The Reality Eater
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