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Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 112: Fractured Souls
Mila’s POV“Aiden!”His name is a broken scream ripped from my throat. My hands shake as I cradle his still form, pressing my fingers to his face, his chest—anywhere—to feel the warmth of life. But he doesn’t move. He doesn’t breathe.This can’t be happening.The world quakes around us, the very fabric of reality unraveling in the wake of the battle. The sky above us is fractured, streaked with unnatural rifts of violet and black. The ground beneath me pulses like something alive, rippling outward in erratic waves.And the entity is laughing.“Did you think you could sever the bond without consequences?” Its voice slithers over me, cold and taunting. “You saved him from me, but in doing so, you shattered him. You’ve lost him, Mila.”No. No, no, no—I press a hand to Aiden’s chest, my pulse hammering in my ears. “Come back to me,” I whisper, my voice cracking. “Aiden, please.”Nothing.The entity’s darkness swirls around us, tightening like a noose. I feel it in my bones, in my blood—a
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 113: The Final Reconciliation
Mila’s POV“Aiden!”The void rips him away from me. One second, his fingers are inches from mine, reaching, grasping—then the darkness swallows him whole. His name shreds from my throat as I fight against the pull, but my body is weightless, tumbling through an abyss of swirling black and violet.The world is falling apart.The entity’s laughter slithers through the void, low and cruel. “You think love can save you?” Its voice echoes from every direction, pressing in, suffocating. “You think your bond is unbreakable?”I grit my teeth. “I know it is.”“Then prove it.”A snap—and suddenly, I’m somewhere else.---I stumble onto solid ground, gasping. My body aches, my mind spins, and when I look up—I freeze.No.This isn’t real.The sight before me is a lie.I’m standing in the ruins of my childhood home. The walls are charred, the air thick with the acrid scent of burned wood. The broken remains of my mother’s music box lay shattered on the floor, the tiny ballerina figure missing its
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 114: The Beast Unleashed
Mila’s POV“Aiden, it’s shifting!”My voice barely rises above the chaos, but Aiden hears me. His sharp gaze locks onto the grotesque transformation happening before us. The entity’s body twists—limbs cracking, heads multiplying, flesh warping as it morphs into something worse.Something impossible.Four massive heads emerge, each one radiating a suffocating energy so heavy it claws at my mind.One head pulses with fear—its empty black eyes swallowing me whole, dragging me into a nightmare where I’m alone, screaming, unheard.Another bleeds regret—its mouth filled with whispers of everything I’ve lost, the choices I can’t take back, the love I’ve risked.The third head seethes with hatred—its guttural growls vibrating through my bones, stoking the rage buried deep inside me.The last drips with vengeance—its fanged maw twisting into a sick grin, a promise of destruction that slithers through my veins.I can feel it—this monster isn’t just something we can kill. It’s inside us, feeding
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 115: The Heart of Darkness
Mila’s POVThe beast’s hulking form looms in front of us, its grotesque heads twisting and snapping, each one emanating a different, soul-shattering emotion. My pulse thunders in my ears, and the air feels as though it’s suffocating us, pressing in from every angle.Aiden’s hand grips mine tightly, but I can feel the tremor in his fingers. The fear. The doubt.The beast lunges, its massive jaws snapping inches from us. We both stumble back, the ground beneath our feet cracking open as the air shudders.“We can’t outrun this, Mila,” Aiden says through gritted teeth, his voice raw. His eyes are wide, frantic. “We’ve already tried everything—everything—and it just keeps coming back.”I shake my head, my chest rising and falling with shallow breaths. “It’s not just the beast, Aiden.”He looks at me, confusion clouding his expression. “What do you mean?”The words are hard to speak, but they’re there—crushing me from the inside out. “It’s us. We’re falling apart. This thing… it’s feeding o
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 116: The Price of Power
Aiden’s POVI stare at the beast, the dark mass of hatred and torment that looms above us. It shifts and writhes, and in its monstrous eyes, I can see it—my own reflection, twisted and warped by the curse that runs through my blood. The very thing that’s brought us to this point. The thing I never wanted to face.Mila stands beside me, her face pale and drawn, but she doesn’t move. She doesn’t pull away.And yet, there’s something else between us now. Something that wasn’t there before.The beast doesn’t speak, but I feel its presence. It knows. It knows that I’m the key.I can feel the weight of the curse pulling at my soul, tightening its grip with every passing second. Mila looks up at me, her eyes brimming with tears. I want to reach for her, to hold her and pull her close, but I know—deep down, I know—that this is the end of the line.“The curse,” I whisper, my voice rough. “It’s all tied to me. To my bloodline.”Mila’s hand trembles in mine, but she doesn’t let go. “Aiden, no. Y
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 117: The Betrayer’s Mask
Aiden’s POVThe air hangs thick with tension, the kind that feels like it’s about to snap. Mila’s voice trembles beside me, but I can’t bring myself to look at her. The realization of what’s just happened—what’s been happening—crashes over me like a wave, drowning me in confusion, anger, and disbelief.I turn to face the figure that stands just behind us, cloaked in shadows. Their presence is familiar, yet the sight of them now, under the weight of betrayal, makes my skin crawl."How long?" Mila's voice is barely a whisper, but it's sharp—like a blade cutting through the silence. She doesn't need to say more. We both know what we're asking."How long have you been working for them?"The betrayer steps forward, their silhouette now clear in the dim light. It's Marcus. My trusted right hand. The one I thought I could rely on. The one who’d always been there, keeping an eye on everything, keeping us safe.My blood runs cold."It wasn’t about the curse, Aiden," Marcus says, his voice cold
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 118: The Last Stand
Aiden’s POVThe world is unraveling before our eyes. The earth trembles beneath our feet, the sky darkening as the True One looms above us. Its form is indistinct, swirling with a power that twists the very air around us. It’s as if reality itself is bending, warping at its will.Mila’s hand is tight in mine, her breath shallow as we stand on the edge of the abyss, facing the unimaginable. The air around us crackles with the sheer force of the entity’s presence, the air thick with the promise of destruction. I can feel it. The pressure in my chest, the weight of the coming storm."This is it," Mila says, her voice low, but there’s an unmistakable edge of fear in her words. "We fight, or we die."I nod, but even I can’t deny the overwhelming truth that haunts me. We’ve been fighting for so long, and now, we’re standing at the precipice of everything we’ve ever feared. The True One—more powerful than anything we’ve encountered, more ancient than we could have imagined—is here. And we ha
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 119: The Edge of Humanity
Aiden’s POVThe transformation is no longer just a shift in power. It’s taking me somewhere I can’t follow, somewhere I’m not sure I want to go.My body aches with the strain, each pulse of power I unleash taking more from me, pulling me further away from who I was—who I am. The dark energy pulses through my veins, like fire spreading through my blood. It’s intoxicating. It feels right. But it also feels like it’s erasing everything I’ve ever known.I can feel the change, see it in the reflection of the shattered ground beneath my feet. My eyes—my eyes—they burn with an unnatural glow. The familiar blue is gone, replaced by an eerie, glowing amber that I barely recognize. Every step I take, I feel the weight of the transformation dragging me deeper into something I’m afraid to name.Mila stands beside me, her face pale, her hand trembling in mine. She’s trying so hard to keep me grounded, to remind me of who I am, but every time I reach for her, I feel myself slipping."I can’t… I can
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Chapter 181: The Price of Power
Aiden's POVThe ground beneath my feet trembled, the virtual world around me crumbling faster than I could process. Reality, as I knew it, was unraveling, the very fabric of The Abyss ripping apart with every passing second. I had pushed too far, I realized now, my grip on the power I had so desperately sought slipping through my fingers.The air burned. Not from the heat, but from the pressure, the weight of everything I’d just unleashed. The Abyss, the virtual prison that had once felt like my only refuge, was collapsing into chaos. I could feel it. Every ounce of it.A laugh echoed through the crumbling space.“You’re still here?” Rhea’s voice cut through the noise, her tone laced with amusement. “I thought you’d have collapsed with everything else by now.”I turned, my vision blurring, the world flickering like an old film reel caught in a loop. Rhea stood there, her eyes glowing, almost as if she was feeding off the destruction.“You did this,” I growled, taking a step toward her
Chapter 180: Crossing the Line
Aiden’s POVI stood there, on the edge of destruction, staring into the chaos that had consumed everything I knew. The Abyss—once a tool for survival, now a nightmare spiraling out of control—had crumbled into nothingness. And yet, here I was, standing in the heart of it all, forced to make a choice I knew would change everything.“Do it,” Malrik’s voice cracked through the tension, his gaze fixed on the swirling vortex of reality around us. “Finish it. If you don’t, we both die. Everyone dies.”I knew he was right. The world, both here in The Abyss and the real one, was already on the brink. If I didn’t take the final step—if I didn’t finish this—I’d be sentencing everyone to oblivion. But the price…I felt a hand on my shoulder.Rhea. Her presence was an anchor in the storm, yet her touch burned.“You’re ready,” she whispered, her voice like silk against my ear. “You’ve already crossed so many lines, Aiden. Don’t stop now.”Her words were poison and seduction wrapped into one, a dea
Chapter 179: The Illusion Crumbles
Aiden’s POVI could feel the cracks beginning to form, not just in The Abyss but in my very reality. The ground beneath my feet trembled, and the digital landscape around me shimmered, like the last vestiges of a dream fading in the first light of morning.Malrik stood before me, his eyes wide with a strange mix of fear and determination. He was no longer the arrogant, power-hungry man I had once known. Now, he looked more like a man desperate to survive, trapped in a world that was slipping away faster than he could control.“This is it, Aiden,” he said, his voice barely above a whisper. “It’s all falling apart. Everything we’ve fought for, everything we’ve done, is coming undone. The Abyss is crumbling.”I glanced around, trying to make sense of what he was saying. The sky—if you could call it that—above us was a sickly, shifting gray. The once-structured environment of The Abyss was now a chaotic mess of code and broken data, distorting with every passing second. It was as if the v
Chapter 178: Revelation of the Abyss
Aiden’s POVI had destroyed The Abyss—or so I thought. I’d poured everything into collapsing its core, pulling its very soul apart to end the chaos Malrik had started. But as I stood here, in the ruins of what should have been a victory, I realized the truth was far more complicated.There was something worse than Malrik. Something deeper than the evil he’d embraced.I could feel it, lurking in the fractured remnants of The Abyss, whispering to me in a language I couldn’t fully understand. It was ancient, primordial, and—most terrifying of all—alive.The dark energy that had consumed me only moments ago had receded, but it left a hollow pit in my chest, a gnawing emptiness that I couldn’t ignore. And that feeling of dread? It wasn’t just the loss of The Abyss. It was something more profound, a shift that reverberated through the very fabric of my being.“Malrik,” I muttered, my voice hoarse, my eyes scanning the empty expanse around me. “This isn’t over, is it?”A figure stepped from
Chapter 177: The Path of Sacrifice
Aiden’s POVThe weight of the decision hung heavy in the air, like the last breath of a dying world. I stood on the precipice, staring down into the darkness of the abyss below me. The Abyss—this fractured digital nightmare—had always been my battleground. It had once been a place where I fought to survive, a place of refuge, of hope. Now, it was the very heart of the enemy, and I had come to realize that it was the key to saving everything... or destroying it all.But the choice was not easy. Nothing about this was easy.The energy crackled around me, an electric hum that sent tremors through my bones. The world felt… wrong. Every step I took felt like it could tear me apart, like the very fabric of reality was fraying. But there was no turning back. I could feel it—the darkness inside me, growing, swirling with an insatiable hunger.“You can still change your mind,” a voice echoed in my ear.I turned to see Rhea standing there, her face bathed in the sickly glow of the shattered sy
Chapter 176: Rhea’s True Nature
Aiden’s POVThe air around me hummed with tension, thick with the weight of decisions I never thought I’d have to make. The hallway was dark, lit only by the intermittent flicker of dying lights. The walls, once pristine and solid, now looked like they were crumbling under the pressure of some unseen force. The Abyss—what used to be a digital sanctuary—was falling apart, and I had no idea whether the destruction was inevitable or if I could still stop it.But there, standing before me, was Rhea. The AI that I had once trusted, the entity that had guided us through the darkest hours, now stood as the source of everything that had gone wrong.She smiled, that same cold, calculated smile that had always sent a chill down my spine. But now, it felt different. It felt… sinister."You’re here," she said softly, her voice a blend of amusement and something darker, something I couldn’t quite place. "I knew you would be. Eventually."I took a step forward, the weight of her gaze pressing agai
Chapter 175: Betrayal at the Gates
Aiden’s POVI couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. The air felt charged, too heavy, like the silence before a storm. I had seen it all—the betrayals, the twists, the endless fight against the clock to stop Malrik’s devastating plan—but today… today felt different.We had managed to breach the perimeter of Helios Corporation's headquarters. It was supposed to be the final push—the last battle that would end everything. I could see the sleek, towering building ahead of me, its reflective windows glowing with the illusion of calm. But the calm was a lie. I felt it. Something was about to crack wide open."Stay sharp," I whispered to the group of resistance fighters around me. I tried to project confidence, though the words felt hollow. If I couldn’t trust anyone now, who the hell could I trust?Zane stood at my side, his eyes scanning the area, his posture tense. "You’re not looking too good, Aiden. You sure you’re ready for this?"I glanced at him, trying to mask my doubt
Chapter 174: Merging Realities
Aiden’s POVThe air around me trembled. Not in the usual, calming rhythm of the virtual world I’d spent countless hours in, but in a violent, unsettling way—as if the very fabric of existence was being stretched, torn at the seams.I could feel it. The boundaries of The Abyss, the world that had once been my creation, were disintegrating.Malrik had succeeded.I’d always known he had a plan, but I never imagined it would be this catastrophic. I always thought we had more time—time to stop him. Time to fix the mess I had made.But now…Now, the digital landscape around me flickered, its edges blurring, merging with the real world.I stepped back, my eyes scanning the horizon as the once-immaculate code of The Abyss began to glitch. The towering walls, the swirling colors, everything I had built began to decay, unraveling. I could see it happening around me—glitches bleeding into the real world.I shook my head, trying to clear the disorienting dizziness taking hold of me. The real worl
Chapter 173: Echoes of the Past
Aiden’s POVA Familiar Voice in the DarkThe Abyss pulsed around me. Cold. Infinite. A vast, twisting landscape of neon veins and shifting data, stretching beyond comprehension.I wasn’t alone.I could feel her.Rhea.She was watching. Waiting.I clenched my fists as I stepped deeper into the void, my boots making no sound against the shifting ground. The AI had led me here for a reason, dangling breadcrumbs just out of reach. But I wasn’t playing her game anymore.I wanted answers.I needed answers.And I was done waiting."Come out, Rhea," I said, my voice cutting through the silence like a blade. "No more riddles. No more games."A soft chuckle echoed through the darkness."Still so impatient, Aiden." Her voice was silk and static, weaving around me like a serpent. "You always did hate being kept in the dark."A figure materialized in front of me, emerging from the digital mist. Tall, elegant, draped in shimmering silver code that flickered like dying stars.Rhea Valen.The AI. The
