It had been two days since Kael "accepted" Lirieth as his system companion, and one day since the golden-haired girl, now revealed as Serenya, saved him from a system executor.
Since then, his life went from "boring and depressing" to "weird and mildly fatal."
And today...
he would leave his home planet — Myrevalis — for the first time.
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> "We're heading to the old system's archive world," Serenya said that morning, casually, like naming a vacation spot.
Kael, still wearing curtain gloves: "Are we flying, portaling, or getting launched out of a giant slingshot?"
> "Dimensional portal," Lirieth answered. "Uncomfortable, but efficient."
Kael sighed. "Sure. I've never even ridden a horse, now I'm riding a dimensional vortex."
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Kael's Power Progression:
Before departure, Lirieth forced Kael to open a hidden system layer normally locked to high-tier users.
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📜 [System Access – Forbidden Subclass]
Subclass Offered:
> Fragment Bearer
Bearer of fragments unrecognized by the system. Can accidentally damage or heal dimensional gaps.
Initial Skills Unlocked:
[Minor Distortion Lv.1]: Slight space tear when emotionally unstable.
[Flicker Step Lv.1]: Short-range step through unstable space (sometimes fails).
[Gap Vision]: Occasionally sees what shouldn't be seen.
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> "So my power is... broken?" Kael asked.
> "Not broken," Lirieth replied. "Just... irregular. Like you."
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Meanwhile on Myrevalis...
Kael's sisters — Meliora, Ilyne, and Sireen — started noticing strange events.
> Meliora sees non-physical injuries appearing on villagers.
Ilyne receives visions of a world split in half.
Sireen picks up signals from beyond the stars, from unlisted creatures.
They don't yet know it…
But their fates are tangled with Kael's.
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Dimensional Portal Journey
Going through the portal wasn't like floating in glowing light.
> It was like falling through screaming fog, wrapped in barbed silence.
Kael saw something in that fog...
> Eyes.
Not one. Millions.
All looking at him.
All laughing without sound.
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> [Warning: Minor Cosmic Entity Detected]
[Connection: Fragment in Kael Virdane drawing attention...]
> "LIRIETH! WHAT IS THAT ABOVE ME?!"
"Ignore it! Do not respond to voices without origin!"
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They landed on Arxen Rho, once the system's archive world, now ruined.
The only thing left standing: The Black Glass Tower — where every forgotten fate is locked.
And where Kael would discover...
> Who he really was.
> And who deleted his original fate.