All Chapters of THE ASCENSION SYSTEM : Chapter 11
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CHAPTER 11
System EvolutionPain. Deep, burning pain.I gasped and forced my eyes open. Blood dripped down my forehead, mixing with sweat and stinging my skin. My vision was blurry, dark spots dancing at the edges. The air smelled like burnt metal and gunpowder. It was thick and hard to breathe. My whole body ached, every movement like fire running through my nerves.But I was alive. Barely.The agent who had almost killed me lay a few feet away, not moving. His body showed the brutal fight we had just gone through. He still held his gun, his fingers limp around it. I took deep, shaky breaths and scanned the room for more danger. The fight was over, but this war was far from finished.A message flashed across my vision.[System Alert: New Function Unlocked – Combat Assistance]Then another.[Reality Override – Locked]What did that mean? My head was spinning, but I had bigger problems. I had to survive first. I forced myself to stand, wincing as pain shot through my ribs. Breathing hurt—a sharp,
Last Updated : 2025-02-24
CHAPTER 12
The Overseers’ FootprintThe dim glow of my laptop screen flickered against the walls as I scrolled through the stolen files. Each document felt like a puzzle piece that didn’t quite fit. Then, a name caught my eye—Project Nexus. The moment I clicked on it, a chill ran down my spine. It felt like someone—or something—was watching me.The text on the screen was distorted, flickering, and rearranging itself as if the file was actively fighting to disappear. Sentences glitched, and whole paragraphs dissolved into static. My heartbeat pounded in my chest.“This isn’t normal,” I muttered.“What’s not normal?” Alex’s voice made me jump. He stood in the doorway, arms crossed, his face half-hidden in the dim light. He had that skeptical look again—the one that meant he didn’t trust my obsession with secrets.I pushed my laptop toward him. “This.”Alex frowned as he studied the screen. “Looks corrupted.”“No. It’s being erased. Someone doesn’t want us to know about Nexus.”His sharp eyes met m
Last Updated : 2025-02-24
CHAPTER 13
No Safe PlaceThe dingy basement reeked of burnt coffee and stale sweat, but it was the only place I could think of that was safe—at least, for now. The hum of old servers filled the space, blinking red and green like a pulse in the dark. I sat across from Elias Reed, a gaunt man with wire-rimmed glasses perched on his sharp nose, his fingers drumming impatiently against the desk."This better be worth my time, Tony," Elias muttered, cracking his knuckles before reaching for his keyboard. "I don't usually deal with ghosts.""I'm not a ghost," I said, though lately, it felt like I was. "Just a man being erased."Elias let out a dry chuckle. "Same thing." His fingers flew over the keys, navigating encrypted files like a surgeon working on open flesh. The glow of the monitors illuminated his face, and for a brief moment, I almost believed this was just another job for him. Just another puzzle.Then his hands stilled. His expression turned rigid."That's... impossible," he breathed.My gu
Last Updated : 2025-02-25
CHAPTER 14
The Second AttackThe city was suffocating tonight.Rain dripped from rusted fire escapes, slicking the pavement in an oily sheen. The air smelled of burnt rubber and electricity, a metallic tang that clung to my tongue. My pulse pounded in my ears as I moved through the alleys, keeping to the shadows. Every muscle in my body screamed from the last fight, but I couldn’t stop. I wouldn’t stop.Elias was gone. And I was next.I kept moving, listening. Watching. The city had its rhythm, its pulse—but something was wrong. It wasn’t just quiet. It was controlled. Engineered.Then I saw them.Six figures. No, eight. Tactical gear, matte-black armor designed to blend into the night. Their movements were synchronized and precise.This wasn’t a random ambush. This was a kill box.A voice crackled in my stolen earpiece. Cold. Mechanical.“Primary target acquired. Engage.”They moved in perfect unison. Th
Last Updated : 2025-02-26
CHAPTER 15
Escape and RevelationSmoke burned my lungs, every breath a reminder that I was running out of time. The alarms screamed overhead, red lights flashing across the steel corridors, casting jagged shadows that moved like ghosts. My boots pounded against the grated floor, every step echoing like a countdown to my own death.Elias was right behind me, bleeding, staggering—but he never slowed. His sharp, silver eyes burned with a determination that almost made me believe we could make it out. Almost.“Left,” he rasped, shoving me forward. “Stairwell—hurry!”The door was just ahead. Freedom was beyond it. And yet, I hesitated. My instincts screamed at me—something was wrong.Elias turned back, lifting his gun toward the security panel, but before he could fire, the metal barrier behind us slammed shut. The sound was final, like the lid of a coffin.His jaw tightened. He knew what this meant.“No,” I said. “We both go.”
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CHAPTER 16
Hunting for the TruthI had expected this to be easy. A name, a location, and a few well-placed questions should’ve led me straight to Dr. Valeria Kane. Instead, I found nothing.No records. No address. No trace that she ever existed.I leaned back in my chair, staring at the blurry photograph of her that I’d managed to dig up. Short black hair, piercing gray eyes, a sharp intellect written all over her face. A scientist who once worked for Project Nexus before vanishing into thin air. Either she didn’t want to be found, or someone had made damn sure she wouldn’t be.I cracked my knuckles and exhaled. "You’re out there, Kane. I just have to look in the right places."The dingy motel room smelled like old cigarettes and I regretted it. My laptop hummed on the table, a dozen tabs open—government databases, classified reports, underground chatter. But every lead hit a dead end. Whoever erased her did a damn good job.But not perfect
Last Updated : 2025-02-28
CHAPTER 17
The Overseers Move FirstThe pain was the first thing I felt. A deep, splintering ache at the base of my skull radiates outward like a shockwave. My vision swam as I tried to push myself up from the cold, wet ground. Gravel bit into my palms. The lighthouse loomed in the distance, its rotating beam slicing through the fog.I had no idea how long I’d been out.Dr. Kane was gone.I wiped my face. Blood smeared across the back of my hand—dripping from my nose, pooling in my ears. A sharp ringing buzzed in my skull, distant and unnatural, like a sound that didn't belong to this world.Then I remembered.That voice."You were never meant to exist."It hadn’t been spoken. It had been placed inside my mind. A weightless, formless presence had invaded my thoughts, speaking with the finality of a death sentence.I staggered to my feet, breathing hard. My body felt wrong—like something had reached inside me and t
Last Updated : 2025-03-01
CHAPTER 18
Finding KaneThe deeper I dug, the more the world tried to erase her.Dr. Valeria Kane didn’t just disappear—she was removed.No digital footprint. No public records. No one even remembered working with her. It was like chasing a ghost whose name had been swallowed by time itself.But ghosts leave traces, no matter how hard you try to bury them.After a week of dead ends, encrypted messages, and a few too many close calls, I found the crack in the system. An old, defunct biotech forum buried in the dark web, its posts scrubbed of anything useful—except one.A cryptic reply to a decade-old thread. A set of coordinates. A time.And a warning."Don’t come unless you’re ready to lose everything."That was how I ended up here.A nameless safe house buried beneath an abandoned subway station, the air thick with dust and paranoia. The walls were lined with rusted servers, their lights blinking like dy
Last Updated : 2025-03-02
CHAPTER 19
The Overseers’ True PurposeThe first thing I lost was my mother’s voice.I didn’t realize it at the time. The memories were still there—the image of her laughing, the warmth of her embrace. But when I tried to recall the sound of her voice, it was gone. Like a tape that had been erased.Then came the missing streets. The ones I swore existed, where I used to walk home from school. Places I knew, yet when I returned, they weren’t there. No one else remembered them.And now—I didn’t know my brother’s name.Because I had a brother. I knew that much.But when I tried to picture him, I saw only a silhouette.A hollow space where he used to be.And with every use of this power—every moment I defied them—more pieces of my past slipped away.I sat in the dimly lit hideout, gripping the edges of the rickety metal table as if that alone could anchor me to something real. Kane paced before me, her face
Last Updated : 2025-03-03
CHAPTER 20
A New Enemy AppearsThe first sign of danger was the silence.Kane had been talking—her voice sharp, urgent, rattling off equations and theories as she tried to piece together a way to keep me from vanishing completely. But suddenly, she stopped.The air turned wrong. Thick. Heavy.My skin prickled.Then—"Target identified."The voice wasn’t human. It came from everywhere and nowhere, distorted and fragmented like a corrupted file trying to play itself.I spun around, instincts flaring.A figure stood at the far end of the hideout.Tall. Masked. A black bodysuit covered every inch of their form, lines of glowing circuitry pulsing along their limbs. The air around them shimmered, distorting like heatwaves on asphalt.A notification flashed in my vision.[Caution: Opponent is using a perfected version of the system.]Perfected.That meant whatever was inside m
Last Updated : 2025-03-04