ZONE: 999 – BLACK MOUNTAIN OF GODS
BOSS ENTITY: [OPHIAN, THE ASCENDED – GOD OF VOID LAYER]
CLASSIFICATION: GOD -TIER
CODE NAME: ONE ABOVE ALL}
Zayn's holographic display flickered in static.
"…Is that rain?" he muttered to himself.
Droplets slithered down his scarred face as he tilted his head toward the weeping sky. His fingers tightened around his weapon.
But it hadn't rained in 999th Zone for days. Not real rain. Not anymore.
The clouds over the Black Mountain bled static,broken code trickling like ash from the heavens, falling onto a dying world. The ground split with charred roots clawing up like skeletal hands, reaching for salvation.
Zayn stood at the mountain's edge
…body bloodied, breaths shallow.
Before him stretched an endless void, alive with rage, glitch, and silence.
He sighed.
White light flickered beneath his cracked visor. Ghost-like energy swirled around him, pulsing with a mysterious power he barely understood.
The wind howled through the mountain, carrying fractured echoes of voices long gone:
Do it…
Win…
Ascend…
So many variables had climbed this mountain. None had returned.
Stepping forward,the stone crumbled beneath his boot. The world twisted unnaturally. Reality here was unstable;time repeated, sound looped, rules bent. Life and death blurred.
And then ,his presence became vivid.
{FINAL BOSS…
NAME: OPHIAN, THE ASCENDED
LEVEL: ∞
SANITY LEVEL: ???}
He emerged from the highest altar like a whisper made of shadow and shattered light. His form was divine,wrapped in refracted space and armored in god-tier void plating.
Six wings unfurled behind him as the light gave way to his build. Crimson and blue eyes stared at Zayn… not just this Zayn, but every version of him that ever dared challenged him.
"You...again," Ophian said, voice hollow and eternal. "Does no mortal exist who can defeat me?"
Zayn raised his blade.
"I am Player One. I finish what others can't. I tear wings off gods. I'm not leaving until your head hits the floor."
The mountain cracked.
Zayn launched forward like lightning. His sword {Final Requiem} ignited with soul fire, trailing a streak of chaos through the air.
Ophian moved to meet him midair, fingertips glowing with divine distortion. The impact silenced the world, wiping the altar behind them into nothing.
The battle began.
Zayn dashed against bent reality…slamming into invisible shields, slicing through echo timelines, dodging traps encoded to delete him. Every strike was calculated. Every move predicted.
He unleashed Drive Pulse X,an elite technique reserved for those beyond Level 666. Energy beams tore through space. One grazed Ophian's shoulder. Another clipped a wing into burnt flesh.
"Progress," Ophian whispered. "But flawed."
Zayn gritted his teeth. He focused, inhaled silence, and moved on instinct alone.
Ophian released a Void Spiral. The realm flipped. Zayn fell into an abyss of collapsing spiral,his body got torn, rebuilt, torn again… in endless glitch loops.
With a final scream, he stabbed upward through his own deletion, bursting back into the sky.
Blood ran from his eyes. His armor hissed and cracked.
He threw his blade mid air.
Ophian dodged but one of his wings got pierced,his eyes lit up in pain.
Zayn crashed below, body barely holding together. But then….his fingers twitched. Something stirred.
"You hurt me," the entity said, curious. "How... fascinating."
He descended,feet first with faulty wings but unshaken pride.
[TRAIT UNLOCKED: CORE OF ECHO MEMORY]
Zayn gasped. A foreign energy surged through him. Memories that weren't his.
Versions of himself.
Timelines lost.
Deaths forgotten.
Attempts made… and failed.
He had been part of the cycle all along.
"You're still human," Ophian said, sitting upon his throne of obsidian light. "Even with invisibility, you're still… less."
Zayn laughed. Bloody and broken but still standing.
"Guess I'm not the version you expected."
Ophian, now irritated, raised his palm.
"Let me correct the glitch."
"No matter how many times you kill me… I'll come back. I won't give up."
"No version of you can defeat me.Ill be here,waiting for you…Player One."
The sky turned white. The visuals shattered into micro like dust.
Zayn collapsed into nothingness. Consciousness fading. Another failure. Another end.
{PLAYER ONE… YOU HAVE BEEN DEFEATED}
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[SYSTEM GLITCH DETECTED…
REBOOTING PLAYER VERSION: ZAYN EVERHART…
OBTAINED PROGRESS PRESERVED: CORE OF ECHO MEMORY…}
{WARNING!!!!! MEMORY UPDATE FAILURE]
NEW TIMELINE INITIATING...}
A bench.
A hoodie.
A city humming with life.
Zayn blinked into another world…heart racing, breath caught. He didn't know who he was.
But somewhere, deep in his code…
A whisper remained.
"You've been here before. So… NEVER GIVE UP."
{….. SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETE…Welcome,Player One.}