[Location: System Core — Beyond Human Perception]
The void was alive with soundless vibrations — cascading lines of light forming codes that pulsed like heartbeats. This was the System Core, a dimension beyond both reality and mana. Here, the architects of evolution observed worlds as if watching glass globes filled with crawling, glowing creatures.
[Alert: Core synchronization disrupted.]
[Warning: Unauthorized resonance detected in Human World — Subject: Aiden Park.]
[Classification: Hybrid Root — anomaly.]
A figure formed from fractured light — tall, faceless, wearing a mantle of digital static.They leaned forward, examining the floating sphere marked EARTH.
"Another Root anomaly," they said, their voice layered with hundreds of tones.
"How many times must we reset this timeline before they learn to die properly?"
Another voice answered from the darkness — softer, feminine, yet colder.
"The moment we reset, the system will recall her. Evelyn Park. The Glitched Entity. The one we buried in Null Space."
The faceless one turned their head. "Then don't reset. We adapt. The humans have adapted faster than expected — they're consuming the algorithm faster than monsters evolve."
A third figure stepped forward, their form like molten glass.
"Then we change the equation. If they want gods…"
Their hand extended, and a red flame coiled within the void.
"…we'll give them demons."
[Protocol Override: DEMONKIN RELEASED.]
[Cross-World Connection: Parallel World — Gate of Dethra Opened.]
[New Race Integration: Demonkin, Fae, Beastfolk, Dragonblood.]
[World Stability: Critical.]
The void rippled.Across the stars, reality screamed — two worlds beginning to intertwine.
[Location: Seoul Sanctuary — Three Days After the Fracture]
Aiden stumbled out from the Portal of Roots. His clothes were scorched, his veins faintly glowing red and green beneath his skin. Soldiers rushed to his side, but none dared touch him.
Dr. Lee ran forward. "He's alive!"
Commander Yura frowned. "Alive, yes — but what is he now?"
As Aiden lifted his gaze, the air itself trembled.Above the sanctuary, a new notification burned across the sky.
[SYSTEM BROADCAST]
[Version 2.0 Update Initializing…]
[Warning: External Interference Detected — Source: Parallel World 'Dethra'.]
[New Entities Incoming.]
A tear split the sky open.From it fell fire — and shapes that moved within it. Wings. Horns. Blackened blades.
The ground shook. Screams erupted as hundreds of monsters poured from the red rift, unlike anything they'd fought before. Their mana signature — cold and intelligent.
[Species: Demonkin — Rank: SSS+]
[Note: Higher intelligence detected. Capable of speech.]
Aiden looked up. His pupils flickered between human brown and emerald light. "They're not monsters," he whispered. "They're… people."
[Scene Shift — Inside the Rift, Parallel World: Dethra]
The world of Dethra was a wasteland of obsidian skies and glowing ruins. Its inhabitants — tall, ethereal, marked with horns or luminous markings — gazed toward the new breach that connected their dying realm to another world.
A woman with obsidian wings stood before an altar of broken stars.Her crimson eyes glowed faintly as she spoke.
"The Architects said this new world was pure. Full of mana. Full of life."She smiled — though her fangs glimmered like blades."Then we shall take it."
Behind her, legions of Demonkin, Fae warriors, and Dragonblood knights knelt.Their armor was marked with the same crest: The Sigil of Nine Gates.
[Back on Earth — Seoul Safe Zone, Control Room]
The air reeked of ozone and fear.Guild leaders from all across Korea gathered around the tactical map.
Commander Yura slammed her palm down. "The sky's collapsing in three sectors! The safe zone barrier is holding but shrinking fast. Where the hell is the System backup?"
Dr. Lee paled. "There is no backup. The System is… rebooting itself. It's losing control."
[Error: Administrative Override Denied.]
[Authority Lost.]
[Root Administrator — DISCONNECTED.]
Aiden gripped the table. "Disconnected? Then who's controlling the update?"
Dr. Lee's monitor flickered.Static. Then — a brief, haunting image: a woman's silhouette, gold eyes, and the faint voice of Evelyn Park.
"Don't let them rewrite us."
The screen shattered.
[Aiden's Private Quarters — Later That Night]
He sat by the window, staring at the growing cracks in the barrier sky.His hands trembled again, the red and green glow fighting under his skin.
"Evelyn…" he whispered. "Did you really see this coming?"
He looked toward the horizon where the World Tree towered. The roots had begun to stir — not in rebellion, but in anticipation.
He felt it — the same pulse Evelyn used to feel before disaster.Something ancient, older than the System itself, was waking beneath the soil.
And deep within the Core Realm, the faceless architect smiled again.
"The experiment evolves. The humans adapt. The anomaly returns."
"Let's see if they can survive against themselves."
[SYSTEM ALERT — ]
[New Era: The Age of Integration]
[Two Worlds Intertwined. Power Rebalanced.]
[Unknown Entity Detected — ID: ??? Evelyn Park ???]
[Status: Reconstructing Soul Data… 0.01%]
The void flickered. Somewhere in the fractured data, Evelyn's consciousness stirred — buried, broken, but still alive.