The Graveyard of the Forgotten
MC stood frozen, taking in the sight before them.
A battlefield of erased existence.
The ground was littered with thousands of bodies, each one caught in some strange state of half-existence—flickering between reality and nothingness. The ruins of buildings loomed in the distance, half-formed, glitching in and out of view like corrupted data.
It was as if this place had been deleted, yet some fragment of it remained, refusing to disappear completely.
"This isn't just a battlefield," MC murmured. "It's a graveyard."
Nova stepped forward, her expression unreadable. "Not just any graveyard."
She turned to face them, violet eyes sharp as a blade.
"This is what happens when you defy the Eye."
MC swallowed hard. Kain shifted uneasily beside them, looking far less confident than usual.
"This was the last rebellion, wasn't it?" MC asked.
Nova nodded. "Hundreds of years ago. They thought they could challenge the Eye, break free of its control. They had powerful warriors, strategists, people who had rewritten their own code to resist the System itself."
She glanced around at the ruins.
"They were erased. Not killed. Not defeated. Erased. Their names, their pasts, their very existence—wiped from memory."
MC shuddered. It wasn't just death. It was obliteration.
Yet…
"If they were erased, then how do you know about them?" MC asked.
Nova smirked. "Because I was one of them."
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Nova's Past: A Survivor of the Unwritten
MC and Kain both stared at Nova.
"You—what?" Kain asked, disbelief in his voice.
Nova crossed her arms. "I was there. I fought in that rebellion. I watched my people get erased one by one."
She looked down at her own hands, flexing them as if making sure they were still real. "I should have been erased too. But somehow, I wasn't. I woke up here, in the Fractured Realm, with only fragments of my past still intact."
MC narrowed their eyes. "Fragments?"
Nova exhaled. "The Eye didn't erase me, but it took something from me. My real name. My past. Who I was before the war. All I know is that I was part of it—and I lost everything."
MC felt a strange chill at her words. The System had been trying to erase them too. Had it been planning to do the same thing?
Erase their identity?
Nova continued, "If you want to go after the Eye, then you need to understand one thing." She gestured at the battlefield.
"This is what happens to those who fail."
She let the silence sink in before adding, "So tell me, MC—do you really think you'll succeed where we didn't?"
MC clenched their fists. "I don't have a choice."
Nova studied them for a long moment, then smirked. "Then let's see if you're as stubborn as you think."
She turned and started walking.
"Follow me."
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A Key to the Past
Nova led them deeper into the ruins, past the shifting corpses and shattered buildings. The further they went, the stranger things became. The air felt heavier, reality itself seeming to resist their presence.
Eventually, they reached a massive stone obelisk, covered in inscriptions that flickered like corrupted text.
Kain frowned. "What is this?"
Nova placed a hand on the obelisk. "The last record of the rebellion. The only piece of history the Eye couldn't erase."
MC stepped closer. As they did, something clicked in their mind.
> SYSTEM LOG: LOST DATA DETECTED.
DO YOU WISH TO RECOVER?
Another memory.
MC hesitated—then reached out and selected YES.
The world fractured.
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The Memory of the First War
MC was no longer in the ruins.
They stood in a different time, a different war.
The battlefield was alive. Soldiers in strange armor fought against an invisible enemy, their weapons glitching, struggling to remain in reality.
A voice rang out through the chaos—strong, commanding.
A woman stood at the front of the rebellion, wielding a blade of pure Rewrite energy. She moved like a force of nature, cutting through the System's forces with precision.
MC's breath caught.
That woman—
It was Nova.
But not as she was now. She looked younger, different—more alive. Her violet eyes burned with defiance as she led the charge.
MC watched as she raised her weapon and shouted, "For the Unwritten! We take back our existence today!"
The soldiers roared in response.
For a brief moment, it seemed like they would win.
Then, the sky split open.
A massive eye, filled with shifting, unreadable symbols, appeared in the sky.
Reality broke.
The soldiers vanished, one by one, as if they had never existed. Nova turned, horror in her gaze as her army was erased around her.
She fought to resist—tried to use Rewrite to stop the process—
But even she wasn't strong enough.
The last thing MC saw before the vision shattered—
Was Nova, reaching out for someone, screaming a name—
Before she, too, disappeared.
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Back to the Present
MC gasped, staggering backward. They were back at the ruins.
Kain looked at them, alarmed. "What the hell just happened?"
MC turned to Nova.
"I saw it," they whispered. "The war. You leading the rebellion. The Eye erasing everything."
Nova's expression froze. For a split second, something flickered in her gaze—shock, pain, something deeper.
Then she smirked. "Guess you really do have access to the System's buried memories."
MC took a shaky breath. "But there's more, isn't there? The memory cut off before I saw what happened to you."
Nova's smirk faded slightly. She turned away, staring at the ruined battlefield.
"There's a lot more," she admitted. "But if you really want to uncover the truth…"
She glanced back at MC.
"Then we need to find someone else who survived."
MC's eyes widened. "There was another survivor?"
Nova nodded.
"The only one who ever got close to the Eye."
She clenched her fists.
"But if they're still alive… they won't be easy to find."
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End of Chapter 5
This chapter introduces:
The Forgotten Rebellion – A war against the Eye that ended in total erasure.
Nova's Past – She was the leader of that rebellion… but something is missing from her memory.
The Eye's Power – It doesn't just erase people; it erases history itself.
A New Lead – Someone else survived the war. Someone who might know how to stop the Eye.