Chapter One-Hundred-and-One
“How the hell does that even happen?” Adam asked, still reeling from the revelation that he was alone in this universe. “How many people entered Stage One??”
[1 Player entered and survived Stage One.]
That makes no sense!
Or did I replace myself in a universe where I was the time-looper??
But how would that lead to only me being alive?? Thousands, maybe millions, of Players had to have been sacrificed to achieve something this devastating.
Around him, the houses were melted like candles, barely even coherent. The ground lacked texture and definition. Without Players dying, the System didn’t have the power to give the island much structure.
He looked up into the clouds, but Luvicidix didn’t fly down to meet him.
Is this what she was warning me about? he wondered.
Or maybe this is what happens when I go to a universe where nobody looped the ‘layer’ before.