[Between Code and Memory]
Darkness was never silent.It whispered in fragments — you were not meant to be,you are not authorized,you are anomaly.
Within that endless void, she stirred.
Her name once was Evelyn Park, but even that name now refused to anchor her.Her body was dust long scattered into the mana stream. Her essence—light without shape—floated in the cold architecture of the System's failed heaven.
And from beyond the void, a voice hummed.
"I missed this chaos," said the Observer."Your defiance… it amused me. Let's bring back the error."
Strings of code unfurled like galaxies. The fragments of her soul were gathered, woven, and forced into a shell of light. Not a body, not yet—something unfinished. Something unstable.
Her consciousness flickered. "You—why?"
The Observer's tone was honeyed boredom.
"Because the others are dull. Because your presence bends rules. Because I want to see what happens if you live without belonging anywhere."
He reached into her code. The World Tree link shattered.Every blessing, every connection, every trace of sanctity—erased.
In its place, something darker pulsed: Anti-Mana. The opposite of creation itself.
"Let's see if your kind still calls you savior," the Observer whispered."Or if they'll call you monster."
Light burst around her—then vanished.
[The Battle of Gray Horizon]
The sky over Daegu Frontier was torn in two.On one side: the alliance—Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Demonkin led by Serath Vael and Aiden Park.On the other: a swarm of corrupted Demonkin, their veins black with decay, their screams hollow and rhythmic like war drums.
"Hold the line!" Aiden roared, sword blazing with mana as his barrier flared.Behind him, elven archers rained green-lit arrows, dwarves hurled explosive runes, and human mages chanted the World Sigil to reinforce the defenses.
But the enemy didn't falter. They moved like a hive mind—void-touched, their bodies warped by something unseen.Each kill only birthed two more.
Dr. Lee's voice crackled over the comms:
"These readings—Aiden, the corruption isn't demonic. It's System interference! They're being overwritten in real time!"
Above them, static began to swirl into a cyclone.Something was descending.
[Return of the Soul]
Lightning struck the battlefield—not blue, but silver-white, threaded with black.
A figure materialized at its center—barefoot, wrapped in torn shadow and light. Her eyes were pale like glass that had forgotten color.
"Evelyn…" Aiden's voice faltered.But the aura was wrong. It was cold. It rejected the world itself.
The air warped. The corrupted Demonkin halted mid-charge, as if their strings had been cut.Then they screamed—every one of them bursting into ash as her aura touched them.
Her voice trembled, fractured between human and static:
"I… didn't ask for this."
[System Error: Undefined Entity Detected.]
[Attempting Classification… Failed.]
[Warning: Entity carries Null Origin Energy.]
The Observer watched from his unseen domain, lips curled in satisfaction.
"Beautiful," he murmured. "You can't touch the World Tree anymore… but you can erase corruption itself.Let's see what you choose to destroy."
[Above the Battlefield — The Architects' Council]
In the hollow citadel beyond dimensions, alarms flared.
"Unauthorized resurrection detected.""Observer breach confirmed.""Containment failing—code corruption spreading to root layer."
The Architects' Council assembled—eight beings of light and geometry.Their voices layered like broken chords.
"Erase the anomaly.""The cycle must remain stable.""Reset if necessary."
But the Observer only laughed, his form a silhouette leaning back against the code of their universe.
"Reset again? You'll bore them to extinction. Let's keep her around. I want to see if she kills you too."
For the first time, the Council hesitated.
Because beneath his mocking tone, something in the code trembled.Even the System feared the anomaly it could not define.
[On the Ground]
Aiden staggered toward her through the smoking field."Evelyn—what did they do to you?"
She looked up. Her expression was soft, almost tender. But her eyes were voids where light went to die.
"They made me what they feared," she said quietly."And what you will need."
Her form flickered—half solid, half data stream.She raised her hand, and the entire battlefield froze.The corrupted corpses turned to ash. The air stilled. The world listened.
For a heartbeat, she looked at Aiden—and smiled.
Then, whispering like an echo from the past, came the Observer's final command:
"Dance for me, anomaly."
Her body convulsed, the power surging uncontrollably, and the world split again in light.
That moment will be the last time she met Aiden with her face and soon, they will not recognize each other but their mission is one. That is fight to protect.
[— The Soul That Shouldn't Exist]
[System Update: Category 'Human' — Contaminated]
[New Parameter Registered: Null Entity – Evelyn Park]
[Warning: Observer Influence Level – Rising]