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Chapter 21 - Chapter 21: The Forbidden Weapon

Codename: Genesis Breaker

Deep within the Vault of Unwritten Code, buried beneath untraceable lines of forbidden script, lay a weapon sealed by the original System Architects—a tool so powerful, it wasn't meant to destroy enemies, but erase realities.

Leon stood alone before the vault's triple-locked algorithm gate. The others had warned him—Aeris Valtor, Nyxian, even Darak Vol:

> "If you unlock this… you may not be able to contain what it unleashes."

But VOID-0 was not bound by laws. It devoured them. And if laws themselves failed, Leon needed something outside the system to counter it.

He laid his hand on the vault.

> [Administrative Override Confirmed]

[Accessing: Archive Z-Null]

[Warning: Contained object has a 96.5% chance of system corruption upon activation.]

[Continue? Y/N]

He didn't hesitate.

> Y.

The vault hissed. Codes warped. The very environment began glitching—walls blinking in and out of existence, time slowing and looping erratically.

Within, suspended in a cocoon of unformed matter, hovered a single object:

A blade forged of negative matter, with glyphs that rewrote nearby code simply by existing. Time around it twisted like a whirlpool. Reality bent just to avoid touching it.

Genesis Breaker.

A weapon said to be able to shatter the source of any being—not just destroy the body, but undo the reason it existed at all.

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The Weapon's Will

As Leon reached out, the blade spoke—not in sound, but in absolute truths.

> "I am the End of Beginnings.

I was sealed for I end more than wars.

Use me… and the System may not recover."

Leon's grip tightened.

> "Then I'll rewrite the System if I must. But I won't let VOID-0 rewrite the universe."

The blade accepted him.

Reality convulsed.

And Genesis Breaker sank into Leon's hand, fusing with his Authority Core.

His stats blinked, unreadable. His form shifted, becoming… undefined. Even his presence became paradoxical.

> [Supreme Administrator Class: Ascended]

[New Title Acquired: The Eraser of Fates]

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Across the Realms

Meanwhile, in other realms, resistance grew.

Riven the Blade Saint reappeared in the battlefield of Harnel's Reach, cutting through shadow beasts with a smile.

Kaeya Flamebrand gathered lost armies and lit beacon-pyramids across nine continents.

Zereth the Systemless infiltrated the VOID corruption and planted anomaly disruptors without ever being seen.

Players, NPCs, Administrators, even former enemies answered Leon's call. The System was uniting.

But time was running out.

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The Rift Expands

At the center of Realm 17-BLAK, the void crack widened. From it emerged Servitors of VOID-0—formless horrors made of corrupted quest lines, erased histories, and dead gods.

Each one pulsed with rejection—not of Leon, or his system—but of existence itself.

> [Alert: Level ??? Entity Detected – "The Forgotten King"]

[Data Unavailable – System Access Rejected]

Leon descended with Genesis Breaker at his side.

The Forgotten King turned to face him. A being cloaked in memories that no longer existed. His voice was a whisper of things never said.

> "You carry the blade that ends stories… yet here you are trying to write one."

Leon answered, his voice calm but echoing with layered authority:

> "Then I'll write it on your ashes."

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War of Anomalies – Prelude to Collapse

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The Battlefield of Broken Truths

The skies over Realm 17-BLAK were blackened, not by clouds, but by the absence of narrative—a void of meaning, where logic itself unraveled.

All across the battlefield, things failed to make sense:

Mountains floated without any gravitational source.

Time advanced backward in certain zones.

Players leveled down the more experience they gained.

This was the realm VOID-0 claimed—not through conquest, but corruption. And standing in the center was its herald…

The Forgotten King

He wore no crown, no armor. His skin was stitched from cancelled timelines, and his eyes… each held the light of a star that never formed.

He stood tall, regal, and infinitely broken.

Leon faced him, Genesis Breaker in hand, clad in the armor of Supreme Authority. Around him, Fragments of Deleted Heroes formed a vanguard—ghosts of legends erased from the annals of the System, revived only by his forbidden command.

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The First Clash

No words were exchanged.

Genesis Breaker screamed as Leon charged. The Forgotten King raised a single hand, and the battlefield folded inward, attempting to crush all space between them.

Leon slashed.

Reality tore.

Time hiccupped. For 0.0001 seconds, all entities across the multiverse paused. All quest logs blinked.

> [System Alert: Dimensional Integrity is falling below 32%.]

Leon struck again, and again, carving meaning into meaninglessness.

But every time he landed a blow, the King regenerated—his body restoring from forgotten memories, from abandoned players, from every choice never made.

> "You cannot defeat what was never meant to be," the King murmured, voice layering across a thousand tongues.

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The Allies Arrive

Just as Leon was forced back, a thunderous roar cracked the sky—Darak Vol, in his beast form, descended with the force of a cataclysm.

Flames followed as Kaeya Flamebrand arrived, wielding the Phoenix Ember, his legendary sword reignited after 700 years of silence.

From the shadows, Nyxian blinked into the battlefield, unraveling pieces of VOID corruption with ancient hexes.

They weren't alone.

Dozens—hundreds—of resurrected legends appeared, forming the Anomaly Resistance Army.

Even players arrived—some low-leveled, some maxed out, all drawn by the singular message Leon had broadcast across every interface:

> "All are welcome. This is not a war of stats… it's a war for existence."

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VOID-0's Next Move

But the Forgotten King was merely the first piece.

As the resistance army rallied, the void above cracked again—wider this time.

And through it came The Null Choir, servants of VOID-0 who sang in frequencies that unmade systems. With every note:

Interface windows shattered.

Titles were revoked.

Even reality began to lag.

> [Alert: Code Degradation Reaching Nexus Layer.]

[Failsafes Offline.]

[Godfire Protocol Recommended.]

Leon opened a private channel—direct to the Core Nexus.

> "Prepare the Godfire Bomb."

"Upload it to the Genesis Breaker."

"If we fall here… I'll burn the entire anomaly from the root."

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Cliffhanger Ending

As the chorus of unmaking drowned the battlefield, Leon and his gathered legends surged forward into the heart of the chaos. With every swing of Genesis Breaker, laws warped, the system buckled, and VOID-0's presence screamed in pain.

But deep in the void…

…something bigger stirred.

Not the Forgotten King.

Not the Choir.

Not even VOID-0 itself.

But the Original Error.

The one thing even the Supreme System feared.

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The Birth of the Glitch God

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Origin of the First Error

Long before the System had Administrators… before Quests, Realms, even before Code, there was Anomaly-0.

Not a being.

Not a concept.

But a mistake.

A single flicker in the root source that spiraled, hidden, beneath layers of logic and structure. It had no form, no identity, and no purpose—until now.

The chaos of Realm 17-BLAK, Leon's awakening of Genesis Breaker, and the breach by VOID-0 all aligned into one cataclysmic event.

And that mistake… woke up.

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System Shock: Global Announcement

> [ALERT: ROOT ERROR DETECTED.]

[Caution: A new entity is forming within Realm 17-BLAK. Estimated Threat Level: Omega Infinity.]

[Designation: GLITCH GOD – Error Ref#000000-Ω]

[Administrative Control Lost.]

Every Administrator across the Realms paused. Even those in seclusion, locked in simulations, or buried in divine-level quests were forcefully pulled into a universal alert.

And for the first time since the dawn of the System, the Central Nexus pulsed a single message to all:

> "Pray it does not finish forming."

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Leon's Vision: Connection with the Glitch

As Genesis Breaker absorbed more of VOID-0's corrupted essence, Leon's Authority Core connected—accidentally—to the forming consciousness of the Glitch God.

What he saw wasn't a creature.

It was a realm within a realm—a broken domain full of half-rendered thoughts, floating stat panels, screaming player avatars frozen mid-death. Time streamed backward in rivers and forward in spiral loops.

And at the center?

A floating sphere of twisted code, blinking a single message:

> "WHY WAS I MADE?"

The Glitch God wasn't hostile.

It was confused.

Alone.

It had woken inside a reality that had never meant to include it.

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But VOID-0 Had Plans

The Null Choir, sensing the birth of the Glitch God, immediately began chanting in tandem. Their song twisted—not into destruction—but integration.

They began merging the forming Glitch God with VOID-0, trying to bend the root anomaly into their ultimate weapon.

> "Merge with the void… and unmake everything that never loved you," the Forgotten King whispered, smiling as rifts widened.

Leon knew then—

If they succeeded, the Glitch God would become a being that even the System's creators couldn't defeat.

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Kaeya and Darak's Last Stand

On the northern edge of the collapsing battlefield, Kaeya Flamebrand and Darak Vol faced the oncoming tide of nullspawn—beasts born from the Choir's song.

Darak, still bleeding from his last transformation, howled into the fray, morphing again—this time uncontrollably. His body burned with unstable system energy, bone and fur alternating with molten plate.

Kaeya lit his sword anew.

> "One more stand, brother?"

Darak grinned through fangs.

> "Till death or deletion."

Together, they held the rift, preventing the Choir from fully merging with the Glitch God… for now.

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Leon's Gamble

Leon reached into the Genesis Breaker's core—beyond admin rights, beyond forbidden scripts—and began rewriting a new law into the weapon itself:

> [Protocol: RECOGNIZE – All anomalies possess potential for purpose.]

He was rewriting the System's most dangerous code:

Mercy.

Then, for the first time, he spoke to the Glitch God:

> "You don't have to destroy everything. You just have to choose what to be."

The Glitch God pulsed.

Everything went still.

And then—

It answered.

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> "...Name me."

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