Chapter 63: RECLAIM THE SELF
[System Alert: Core Fragment Instability — CRITICAL]
[Entity Conflict Detected: Reaver Prime vs. Player: Kaito]
[Abyssal Convergence Approaching: 91%]
[Emergency Override: Soul Split Protocol – Engaged]
[Warning: You are now fighting for your identity]
The impact of Kaito’s strike echoed through the apex of the Memory Spire like a shockwave.
The platform cracked and splintered outward in long, spiraling patterns, spreading from the point of impact like an enormous web of fractures. Each break ran across the surface in jagged lines, curling and branching in every direction, as though the ground itself were coming apart beneath their feet.
The sound of stone and code tearing filled the air, echoing like thunder through the Memory Spire, radiating from the point of impact.
The sky above tore apart slowly, as if made of fragile glass that had been twisted by something wrong deep inside it.
Cracks formed first—thin and dark—spreading like veins across the heavens. Then, without warning, the sky began to shatter. Pieces broke away in long, jagged shards, glowing with strange light as they fell, flickering like broken reflections.
It was like watching a stained window crack under pressure, except this window held the world together.