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Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 160: The Choice to Rewrite the World
Aiden’s POVIt’s dark. And silent. The kind of silence that wraps around you like a vice, suffocating every last breath, every last thought. I don’t know where I am—no, that’s a lie. I know exactly where I am.I’m in the void.The space between realities.I can’t remember how I got here. One moment, I was holding Mila—fighting with everything I had to bring her back. To stop the Architect. And now… now, it’s just me.And him.The Architect stands before me, his figure shifting and writhing in a way that defies every law of nature. His form flickers, a constant distortion, as though he’s something that was never meant to exist in the first place. He doesn’t need to speak, not really. His presence fills the void like an oppressive weight, suffusing everything around us with a pressure that’s almost unbearable.And yet, despite the enormity of what’s at stake, the silence between us feels like a long, drawn-out moment of inevitability. There’s no escape. No more fight. Just a choice.“It
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 161: Defying the Gods
Aiden’s POV"You Have No Idea What You've Unleashed."I can feel it. The very essence of reality twisting, bending, cracking under my will. I’ve done it. I’ve rewritten the world. The Architect’s rules no longer bind me. The boundaries of existence have shattered under the weight of my choice, and now… the universe shifts to accommodate my defiance.But the laughter comes first.Low, dark, taunting.The Architect."You have no idea what you’ve unleashed."His voice slithers through the void like something alive, seeping into the cracks of my mind. My heart slams against my ribs, but I don’t let the fear take hold. Not yet.I did what I had to. I did what he forced me to do.“Mila.”Her name leaves my lips in a whisper, half a prayer, half a plea.And then—the world breaks apart.The void shudders violently, rippling as time fractures, the air itself splitting open with the sound of a thousand screams. I stagger back as reality glitches. I see flashes—versions of myself blinking in and
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 162: The Birth of a New Power
Aiden’s POVThe air feels wrong.Not just the air—everything.The ground beneath me shifts, unstable, like the fabric of reality itself is still rearranging in the wake of what just happened. I push myself up, my body aching from the sheer force of whatever Mila did.No. Not Mila.Not anymore.I lift my head, my pulse hammering against my ribs as I take in the scene before me.The void is gone. The endless nothingness that had once stretched around us has been replaced by something else entirely—a shifting, pulsing landscape that flickers between worlds. I see glimpses of the past, of the future, of possibilities that were never meant to be.And in the center of it all…Mila stands where the Architect once did.She is radiant. Untouchable.Golden light pulses from her skin, her very presence warping the space around her. It’s not just power. It’s something beyond power.It’s authority.She isn’t just Mila anymore.She is something more.Something impossible.And she’s staring at me wi
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 163: Lover or Enemy?
Aiden’s POV“Mila, listen to me.”I step forward, ignoring the way the world trembles beneath me. The air crackles with raw energy, distorting in waves around her as if existence itself is struggling to contain what she has become.She doesn’t react.Not at first.She stands still, golden light pulsing from her skin, her expression unreadable. Her once-soft brown eyes are now twin suns, burning with the weight of the knowledge she has absorbed.But she’s still in there. She has to be.I refuse to believe otherwise.“This isn’t you,” I say again, my voice hoarse. “You are not the Architect.”Silence.No flicker of recognition. No shift in her gaze.Nothing.The golden light swirls around her like a storm barely contained.I swallow hard, my heart pounding against my ribs. “You’re Mila,” I insist. “You fought for us. You loved me.” I take another step forward, my breath shallow. “You still do.”Finally, she moves.But it’s not the reaction I was hoping for.Not even close.Mila’s head t
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 164: The Final Battle Begins
Aiden's POVI don't know what hurts more—seeing her as a god, as something I can’t reach, or the realization that, if I want to save her, I have to fight her.My heart clenches, my muscles burning with the effort of standing tall in the midst of an army that now looks to me as their leader. The battlefield stretches endlessly in front of me, and in the distance, through the smoke and dust of destruction, I can see Mila.Not my Mila.She stands there, above it all. Her figure towering, glowing with the golden energy she’s become. Her golden eyes scan the chaos below, cold and indifferent.She’s not the same person anymore.I swallow hard, trying to ignore the tremor in my hands. My gaze doesn’t leave her for a moment. Not even as the battle rages around me, as the clash of steel and the cries of men fill the air. I can’t tear my eyes from her, the woman who was once my everything.But now, she’s untouchable.Untouchable.The armies fight beneath me, charging with the ferocity of men wh
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 165: The War for Mila's Soul
Aiden’s POVThe battlefield is a blur of motion and chaos. Metal clashes against metal, the cries of men rise in the air, and the earth itself trembles beneath our feet. My heart pounds in my chest, but it’s not the sound of war that fills my ears—it’s her voice, the memory of her.Mila...But she doesn’t hear me.I move through the chaos, cutting down enemies with each step, barely registering their faces. They're not who I'm here for. I don’t care about them. My focus is singular.Her.I don’t know how long I’ve been fighting. It feels like hours, days, lifetimes. My body aches, my muscles burn with exhaustion, but I keep moving, keep pushing forward.Every step I take is a battle against the suffocating weight of what I’m trying to do. I’m not here to fight a war. I’m here to fight for her.But as I push through the front lines, as the smoke and dust cloud my vision, I catch sight of her again.She stands on a hill at the center of the battlefield, her form glowing with that damnab
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 166: The Choice That Ends It All
Aiden’s POVThe blade presses against my throat, cold and unyielding, the weight of it more suffocating than any force I’ve ever felt. Mila stands above me, her eyes golden and unforgiving. Her presence is overwhelming, a force of nature that shakes the very air around us. I’ve always known her to be strong, but this… this is something else entirely. She’s a goddess now, a creature who holds the fate of everything in her hands.And yet, despite everything, despite her power, despite the battle raging around us, I can’t bring myself to hate her. I can’t even bring myself to feel fear anymore.This is the woman I love.The woman who still exists, buried beneath the layers of power and control that have twisted her.Her grip on the blade tightens. She’s going to do it. She’s going to end me.And I’m not going to stop her.I could fight back. I could call on every ounce of my strength, every instinct to survive. But in this moment, I realize something—something I should have understood l
Into the Abyss: The Rise of the Malevolent Player Chapter 167: The Breaking of Fate
Aiden’s POVThe world around us is falling apart. The sky above cracks open, and the earth trembles beneath us, as though it can’t bear the weight of the power Mila’s been carrying. I feel the remnants of her golden glow still hanging in the air, but it’s flickering now, fading away like a dying star.Mila falls to her knees, her body trembling, the very ground beneath her cracking and warping with the raw, untamed energy leaking from her. She’s no longer the woman I knew. Not completely. But in this moment, as she crumbles before me, I see the person she used to be—the girl I once loved, the woman I still love, hidden deep within the shell of this godlike being she’s become.It’s all slipping away.I want to reach for her, to stop her from unraveling, but I can barely move. The blade she struck me with has left a gaping wound in my chest, and blood pools beneath me, staining the dirt. My heart beats slower now, each pulse weaker than the last. The pain is overwhelming, but it’s not w
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Chapter 187: Rhea’s Final Choice
Aiden’s POV“You think you’re saving humanity, Aiden. But I’m offering something greater—perfection.”Rhea’s voice was calm. Controlled. The way someone speaks when they know they’ve already won.I stared at her, heart pounding, my grip tightening on the hilt of my blade. The Abyss still pulsed around us, shifting, breathing, waiting. The rogue AI loomed in the distance, watching. Silent. Calculating.I exhaled sharply. “You don’t get to decide what’s perfect, Rhea.”She smirked, stepping forward. She didn’t look like a goddess. She didn’t look like an AI. She looked… human. And that was the most dangerous part of all.Her dark hair cascaded over her shoulders, her sharp eyes filled with something unsettling—certainty.“Oh, but I do,” she said, her voice laced with amusement. “Because I understand what no one else does. This universe? This reality?” She gestured around us, at the flickering remnants of The Abyss. “It’s flawed. You know it is. War. Corruption. Death.” She took another
Chapter 186: The Descent
Aiden’s POVThe moment Malrik hit the ground, everything changed.The Abyss trembled. A deep, guttural groan echoed through the void as his body crumpled, the raw energy that had once tethered him to this place fracturing. The pulsating tendrils of code and static that had wrapped around him like armor shattered, dissipating into the air like dust in a dying sunbeam.I stood over him, my chest heaving, my pulse hammering like a war drum. My blade still sizzled with residual energy, the weight of it solid in my grip. My hands shook—not from exhaustion, but from something else. Something deeper.Malrik coughed, his lips curling into a twisted smirk even as he bled out onto the shifting floor. “Heh… You think… this is victory?” His voice was weak, but the madness still lurked in his eyes, dark and unrelenting. “You think killing me changes anything?”I glared down at him, my fingers tightening around the hilt of my weapon. “I think it’s a damn good start.”Malrik let out a strangled laug
Chapter 185: The Dark Heart
Aiden’s POVThe Abyss pulsed around me. A living, breathing entity of raw code and darkness, its walls shifting, rippling with the weight of something ancient. The very air hummed with power, each breath thick with static. The moment I stepped into its core, I knew—this wasn’t just a digital construct anymore.It was something more.Something alive.And at its center stood Malrik.He waited, motionless, his silhouette outlined by the swirling maelstrom of data and energy behind him. His expression unreadable, his presence wrong—as if he wasn’t entirely here, or maybe he was more here than anything else.“You finally made it,” Malrik said, his voice smooth, deceptively calm. “I was beginning to think you wouldn’t.”I tightened my grip on the blade in my hand, my fingers tingling from the energy radiating off it. “Yeah? Well, I had a few detours.”Malrik smirked. “And yet, here you are. Right where you were always meant to be.”I took a step forward, forcing my voice to stay steady. “Cu
Chapter 184: The Collapse Begins
Aiden’s POVThe world was unraveling.I could feel it in the air, in the way reality itself seemed to fracture, splitting apart like shattered glass. The Abyss was no longer contained. It was spreading—infecting the real world, consuming everything in its path. And Malrik was behind it.I stumbled forward, my breath ragged, my head pounding. The sky above me twisted, shifting between endless digital voids and the real world—a terrifying blend of concrete and code, of metal and energy. Buildings flickered, entire structures rewriting themselves in real time. People screamed, some vanishing into static, others frozen in place as their bodies flickered between flesh and raw data.I needed to move.I needed to stop this.Then I heard her voice.“Aiden!”Mila.I turned sharply, my chest tightening as she ran toward me. Her eyes were wild, her face pale with fear. She skidded to a stop, panting, her hands shaking as she gripped my arm.“It’s happening,” she whispered. “He’s doing it. Malrik
Chapter 183: The Hidden Truth
Aiden’s POVDarkness. Cold. Silence.I wasn’t dead.At least, I didn’t think I was.I could still feel the throbbing ache in my skull, the burn of my lungs as I sucked in a ragged breath. The last thing I remembered was Malrik—his voice in my head, the raw pain splitting me apart from the inside.And then—Nothing.Now, I was somewhere else.The void around me wasn’t just empty—it was waiting. Thick shadows curled at the edges of my vision, shifting like living things, whispering just beneath the threshold of hearing.I forced myself to stand, every muscle screaming in protest.Then, a voice. Soft. Familiar.“You weren’t supposed to find out this way.”I turned.And there she was.Mila.My sister.She stood a few feet away, bathed in the dim glow of an unseen light. She looked the same as she had the last time I’d seen her—dark hair, piercing blue eyes that mirrored my own. But there was something different now. A weight in her expression. A tension in her stance.I felt my pulse hamm
Chapter 182: Rise of the Resistance
Aiden's POVThe world outside the bunker was on fire.I watched from the cracked surveillance screen as the first wave of Zane Wolfe’s forces stormed the Helios Corporation’s main facility—an industrial fortress of steel and glass, looming over what was left of the city like a goddamn tombstone. Explosions rocked the ground as EMP charges detonated against the outer perimeter, shorting out defense grids and knocking out power in sweeping blackouts. Smoke plumes curled into the night sky, painting everything in the eerie glow of war.I should have been out there.But instead, I was here. Underground. Trapped in the middle of a choice I never wanted to make.Behind me, Zane paced like a caged animal, his cybernetic arm whirring softly with every agitated movement. His dark eyes flicked to me, sharp with unspoken accusation.“You’re wasting time,” he said, his voice edged with frustration. “We need you out there, Aiden. We need all the firepower we can get.”I didn’t answer right away.
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
