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Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 124: The Cost of Victory
Aiden's POV I stumbled over the uneven ground, my boots crunching against the remnants of what had once been the battlefield. The air was thick with smoke, the remnants of destruction lingering like a bad dream that refused to dissipate. The world felt... hollow. Silent. The roar of the fight had faded, and all that was left were echoes of what had happened, what I had done.Power. I had power. I was more than I’d ever been. I could feel it thrumming beneath my skin, every cell alive with it. But it came with a price. A price I hadn’t fully understood until now.Without Mila... everything felt wrong. The entity was gone. The battle was over. But what did victory matter if I had nothing left to fight for? I should have been grateful, relieved. But instead, I felt nothing but a gnawing emptiness that stretched deep inside me."Aiden?"I didn’t look up. I didn’t need to. I knew the voice—Tess, one of the few who had survived the chaos. She’d been by my side throughout this whole night
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 125: A New Threat Awakens
Aiden's POV I couldn't feel her anymore.It was as if the last thread that connected us had snapped, leaving me suspended in the void. No matter how hard I reached for her, no matter how deep into the abyss of my mind I ventured, Mila's presence was gone. I had power—more power than I ever thought I could wield—but without her, it felt like a curse, like a hollowed-out shell. The war had ended, but it hadn't been won. Not for me."You will find her, Aiden." The voice of my ally, Thorne, broke through my thoughts. He stood beside me, a towering figure draped in the remnants of the battle, his eyes heavy with the weight of what had happened. His words were meant to comfort, but they only deepened the emptiness gnawing at my chest.I turned to him, the strain of the days catching up to me. "I will. No matter what it takes."But deep down, I wasn't sure anymore. The world had changed, and so had I. The survivors were scattered, some in awe of me, others afraid. They whispered behind my b
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 126: The Abyss-Touched
Aiden's POV I freeze. The figure before me, emerging from the rift, is like a twisted echo of everything I’ve ever loved. The shape is unmistakably Mila, her long dark hair flowing like a shadow, her face pale, lips parted as though she wants to speak, but her eyes—those eyes—are wrong.I can see it now, the corruption in her gaze. Gone is the warmth, the familiar spark that used to draw me in. Instead, there’s a cold emptiness, a chilling intelligence that isn’t hers. Something in her has shifted, something has… changed.My heart hammers in my chest. This isn’t her.“Mila?” The name barely escapes my lips, thick with desperation. I want to believe, so desperately, that this is still the woman I would risk everything for. But something inside me, something primal, tells me to take a step back.I can hear the murmurs of the Shadowborn behind me, their voices trembling with fear. Their words are a blur, but the meaning is clear. They know exactly what this is.“She’s Abyss-Touched,” on
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 127: The Sacrifice Gambit
Aiden's POV The Abyss rages before me, its dark tendrils stretching like hungry fingers reaching for my soul. The air is thick with the scent of decay, of something ancient and malevolent that twists at the very fabric of reality. The rift pulsates, its energy crackling with a power I can barely comprehend, let alone control. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s not the rift I’m focused on.It’s her.Mila stands at the edge of the void, her eyes a cold reflection of the nightmare she’s become. Her once warm gaze is now empty, void of anything that makes her the woman I loved. A part of me dies every time I look at her, but another part of me—the part that refuses to give up—clings to the flicker of light that still lingers beneath the surface of her corrupted form.“Mila,” I say, my voice raw, desperate, but steady. “I know you’re in there. I know it.”She doesn’t respond. Her face is frozen in an eerie, vacant expression, her mouth slightly parted, like she's trying to speak but is
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 128: The Collapse of Reality
Aiden's POV The world is gone.It’s a simple thought, yet it feels like the foundation beneath my feet is shattering in slow motion, stretching and warping like some cosmic rubber band about to snap. I feel the nothingness stretching, a cold, endless expanse where time should be but isn’t, where nothing makes sense. There’s no sky, no ground. No direction at all. Just an all-consuming void.Mila’s hand slips into mine, her touch warm against the overwhelming chill that gnaws at my very soul. Her fingers are trembling, and I know she’s as afraid as I am.“Aiden…” she whispers, her voice small, swallowed by the vast emptiness. “Where are we?”I swallow hard, the taste of salt and fear lingering in my throat. “I don’t know,” I admit, my voice echoing in the void, swallowed by the darkness around us. “I think… I think we’re caught somewhere between worlds. Between reality and nothingness.”She doesn’t respond, but I feel the weight of her worry, a quiet understanding passing between us.
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 129: A World Rewritten
Aiden's POV I wake up to the faint sound of birds chirping. Birds. It’s the first thing that strikes me as odd because I can’t remember the last time I heard birds in the middle of the city, not in the war-torn streets we once knew. I blink, my mind struggling to catch up with the reality unfolding around me.“Mila,” I murmur, rolling onto my side, only to find… nothing.She’s gone.My heart pounds in my chest as I sit up, looking around. The room feels… foreign, yet strangely familiar. The pale curtains sway gently in the morning breeze, and sunlight filters through the cracks in the blinds, casting long shadows across the hardwood floor. The scent of freshly brewed coffee wafts from the kitchen, and I can hear the hum of traffic just outside the window.This isn’t the world I left behind. It’s not even close.“Mila?” I call out again, a sense of panic crawling under my skin.The bed beside me is empty. Her side, once warm, is now cold.I scramble out of bed, my legs unsteady, and r
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 130 : The Imposter King
Aiden's POV I freeze, my breath caught in my throat. The man standing before me—before us—looks exactly like me. Same eyes, same features, same stature. The only difference is the expression on his face.Confidence. Power. Unyielding control.A smirk curls at the corners of his lips, and he takes a step closer, his eyes never leaving mine. I want to move, but my body refuses to obey. My skin tingles with the oppressive weight of his presence, a force that feels so wrong yet so familiar.Aiden Prime.“Mila,” I whisper, but my voice cracks. She’s standing beside me, her fingers wrapped tightly around my arm. She’s trembling. I can feel it, the faint vibration of fear running through her fingertips.“He’s not you,” she murmurs, her voice barely audible, but the words are sharp, a blade of realization. Her eyes flicker between the two of us. She doesn’t understand it, but I do.This man—this thing—is me. But not me.“Stay close,” I tell her, my voice strained. My heart is hammering in my
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 131: A Battle Between Selves
Aiden's POV AidenI can barely breathe. The air feels thick, oppressive, pressing in on my chest like the weight of a thousand storm clouds. I stare at Aiden Prime, my doppelgänger, the twisted version of myself who embraces the Abyss and wields its power as though it’s a natural extension of his very being. His smile—cold, cruel—cuts into me like a blade.“You’re an anomaly, Aiden. This world doesn’t need two of us.”His voice, so much like mine yet so foreign, sends a chill down my spine. I can feel the weight of his words sinking into me, each syllable a reminder of how far I’ve fallen from the person I used to be. How far he’s fallen, too, but in a different direction—one I can’t follow.Mila grips my arm, her fingers tight around my bicep. I can feel her pulse, frantic against my skin, as her breath hitches in fear. I want to reassure her, tell her we’ll find a way out of this, but the words die in my throat. I don’t know if I can.I glance at her, meeting her gaze. There’s terr
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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
