[Null Awakening]
Who are you?
The voice echoed through endless static.Every time she tried to remember, the answer broke apart like glass in her hands.
Her name—Her face—Her voice—
All of it dissolved into flickers of data, unstable and incomplete.
She woke beneath a dead sky, the stars glitched like broken screens. The soil under her feet was white and soft, as if it had never been touched by human life.
Her reflection in the fractured lake stared back with eyes she didn't recognize—a pale gray with a ring of void at the center, a color that didn't exist before light was born.
[System Identification Failed.]
[Reconstruction Successful — Placeholder Name: "Null."]
[Class: Undefined.]
[Origin: Unknown.]
[Autonomy Level: Restricted.]
"Null?" she whispered, the word unfamiliar, hollow.It didn't sound like her. It didn't feel like anyone.
Then the laughter came—low, intimate, almost kind.
"You always had a talent for breaking things," said the Observer, his voice stretching across the air like a ripple through reality. "Including yourself."
Her hands clenched. "What did you do to me?"
"I gave you a second chance," he said. "You should thank me.""A second chance to live?""No. A second chance to be watched."
[The Fractured Mind]
She tried to move, but her body didn't obey like before.Each step flickered with delay—like the world had to render her existence in real time.
Every tree, every shadow, every ripple of wind—paused whenever she blinked.
"You're slowing the simulation," the Observer said cheerfully."You don't belong in this version of the world. You're a ghost in the root code. A shadow between updates."
Her fists trembled.She remembered something—a field, sunlight, laughter. A boy's voice calling her name—Evelyn.
But when she tried to grasp the memory, pain lanced through her skull. A system message replaced her thoughts.
[Memory File: Locked by Administrator.]
[Attempting Access — Denied.]
[Penalty: Cognitive feedback loop initiated.]
She fell to her knees, gasping, clutching her head as phantom screams filled her ears—her own voice, echoing from a thousand pasts.
"Why… why keep me alive like this?"
"Alive?" the Observer chuckled. "You're not alive. You're performance art.""I am—""—Not Evelyn. Not anymore."
[Birth of the Null]
Days—or minutes, or eternities—passed. Time didn't flow right here.Sometimes she saw pieces of the outside world like flickers through fog—Aiden's face, screaming her name through smoke.The World Tree, now hollow.The Council's citadel collapsing under its own paradoxes.
But she couldn't reach them.The Observer had locked her inside a fragment of corrupted code: Sector 0, a realm between worlds, meant for deletion.
Still, something was wrong. The Observer's control wasn't absolute.
Whenever she dreamed, she saw a faint pulse of light under her ribs—a seed-shaped mark glowing faintly green.
The World Tree seed… it's still inside me.
And for the first time, she smiled.
Because that meant she still had something the System couldn't erase.
[The Observer's Interference]
He appeared again, wearing a human shape this time—a tall figure with obsidian hair and eyes of static, walking beside her through the still forest.
"You're adapting," he said, almost admiringly. "Most anomalies collapse within hours.""Why am I still here?""Because you're entertaining."
She glared. "You could end all of this."
"I could. But then who would I talk to?"
She looked away."You want me to fight."
"No," he smiled. "I want you to remember."
And with that, he disappeared—leaving her alone as a vision surged behind her eyes:
A battlefield. Children crying. A man with crimson eyes—Aiden—screaming her name.Then blood. Hers.
Her heart convulsed.She fell again, whispering her forgotten name, her voice trembling.
"Evel—"
The System interrupted, cold and absolute:
[Unauthorized Identity Detected.]
[Evelyn Park — Erased.]
[Entity "Null" — Confirmed.]
Her scream tore through the void—but it made no sound.Not even the air acknowledged her name anymore.
[Rebellion Begins]
When the static cleared, she stood once more—expression blank, eyes lifeless.
"Fine," she said softly. "If you want Null… I'll show you what Null can do."
The green pulse beneath her skin spread through her veins, mixing with the black static the Observer had planted.
The fusion—Anti-Mana and World Seed energy—wasn't supposed to exist.
Reality rippled.Space twisted.And for the first time, the System faltered.
[Warning: Entity "Null" is rewriting base law.]
[Containment Failed.]
[Root Layer Breach — 0.02%]
In the Architects' citadel, panic erupted.The Observer watched from afar, his grin sharpening.
"Yes," he whispered, "break the world for me again, little mistake."
[The One Who Wasn't Evelyn]
[System Update: Entity "Null" — Status Unknown]
[Observation Priority: Critical][Architect Verdict Pending…]
[Warning: Reality Sync Error Detected — Multiple Worlds Overlapping]