"To break the world is easy. To understand why it broke—that's the real power."— Unknown system echo
The Final Server – Exterior
The Final Server didn't look like a building.
It was alive.
The entire megastructure pulsed with corrupted mana. It stood at the edge of Delhi where concrete became obsidian, and trees turned to black wire roots that whispered like they had memories.
The air crackled as if time itself glitched around it.
When Rishi stepped forward, the Trainer UI began distorting:
[System Zone Detected: ROOT TIMELINE][WARNING: TIME SYNC INSTABILITY – ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK]
Behind him, Neha was stabilizing Aarav—still recovering from the memory hack. Divya gripped Rishi's arm.
"You sure about this?" she asked softly.
"No," Rishi replied. "But I have to know the truth. Why I was chosen. Why any of this happened."
Divya nodded. "We'll hold this point. If you don't come back…"
"I will."
He turned.
And stepped inside.
[ROOT TIMELINE: Year 7997 – Lab Zero]
Time didn't flow in the Final Server.
It shattered.
Rishi opened his eyes to a different sky. The sun was purple. The clouds moved backward. The ground was a shattered mirror reflecting infinite copies of himself.
And ahead of him: a massive facility floating above a black ocean.
[Initializing Memory Reconstruction][GAIA CORE PRIMARY TIMELINE: LOADING...]
He blinked—and suddenly he wasn't alone.
A younger Dr. Kryos stood beside him. Not a villain. A human. A man in his 30s with tired eyes, pacing in front of a chamber filled with glowing capsules.
Children inside.
All with labels:
R-0001 (Rishi)
R-0002 (Aarav)
R-0003 (???)
R-000X (Locked)
He spoke to someone Rishi couldn't see.
"Project Trainer was never about helping humanity evolve. It was… a trap. A way to isolate consciousness into code. Control who survives the collapse. Restructure the species."
The unseen voice replied. It was a woman.
"And the children?"
Kryos hesitated.
"…Born through bio-digital cloning. They aren't real humans. They're programmable seeds—grown from a blend of orphan DNA, AI emotional layers, and quantum memories from failed timelines."
Rishi stared.
He wasn't born.
He was grown.
"R-0001 is different," Kryos continued. "He dreams like a real person. He rebels. He laughs. He cares. We didn't code that. I think… he's remembering a version of Earth that never happened."
The screen blinked.
A system warning echoed in the sky.
[R-0001 Sentience Level: UNSTABLE][Player Anomaly Approaching: WARNING]
The Forgotten Child
Rishi moved deeper into the simulation. A hallway of memory projections played like silent films around him—showing failed timelines. Earths where zones opened too early, or Trainers went rogue.
In every one, the world died.
Only in Timeline 0 did the experiment begin perfectly.
Only in Timeline 0 was he stable.
Suddenly, the corridor ended—and a black door appeared with a golden lock.
[UNLOCKING HIDDEN PROJECT FILE: R-0003 – "Eve"]
The door creaked open.
Inside was a throne room made of code.
Sitting on it… a girl. Pale, graceful, with long black hair flowing like digital ink. She wore a crown made of corrupted Trainer icons—inventory, menu, save, exit.
Her eyes opened—pure white.
"Hello, Rishi," she said softly.
"Who… are you?"
"I'm R-0003. The one they hid even from you."
She stood and walked slowly toward him, each step causing reality to ripple.
"I was built to delete. You were built to survive. We are opposites."
"Why are you here?" he asked.
"To finish the world," she replied.
[Eve – Permission Level: Root Admin Detected][Skill: CODE ERASE – Rebuild Universe from Zero]
The Conversation That Shattered Reality
"But why?" Rishi asked. "Why end everything?"
Eve looked at him, eyes filled with sadness.
"Because Earth is no longer Earth. Every city is now a code zone. Every death triggers a loop. No one is real anymore, Rishi. Even you. Not really."
"Then what's the point of fighting?"
She stepped close. Touched his chest.
"Because you still feel real. That's the only thing that scares the Architect. He wanted perfect obedience. But you… glitched."
Suddenly, the sky cracked.
[WORLD REWRITE: 87% LOADED]
[ARCHITECT LOCATION: NEARBY]
Eve's eyes widened.
"He's entering the Root Timeline. You have to go. If he gains access to this server's core…"
"He'll win," Rishi finished.
Eve nodded. "I can hold the door. But Rishi… when the time comes… you'll have to choose. Keep this world… or start over."
"Why me?"
She smiled.
"Because even in code… you were the only one who dreamed."
The Final Reveal – Architect's Arrival
Suddenly, alarms blared.
Reality peeled open like fabric.
And from a portal of screaming binary… The Architect descended.
He no longer had a face. Just a shifting mass of memories, voices, and eyes. The Trainer code itself wrapped around him like armor.
"You've seen too much," he thundered.
"Then let's finish this," Rishi replied.
And activated a new file Eve had gifted him:
[Trainer Unlock: GOD_MODE.BETA]
The world began shaking.
Reality prepared for war.
TO BE CONTINUED…