The wind howls.
Cold. Biting. It tears the dust up, slapping my face like a whip of blades.
Around me, the shadows stretch, writhe, breathe. They watch me. They wait.
I clench my fists.
My breath? A dying engine.
My heart? A live grenade.
Then—
BOOM.
An electric wave pierces me.
My phone vibrates, a beast gone mad.
A brutal heat climbs up my spine, a serpent of fire wrapping itself around my marrow.
Every nerve ignites.
[SYSTEM ALERT]
FORCED UNLOCK PROTOCOL – ACTIVATION OF THE EYE.
My vision glitches.
A pressure tears through my skull, like an internal rupture.
Then Iris's voice.
Cold. Mechanical.
— Installation in progress.
My phone flashes.
In the cracked screen, a reflection.
An eye.
Black as the night.
Slit like a predator's.
And in the center of my forehead…
∞
A shiver cuts down my spine.
— Iris… what have you done to me?!!
Silence.
Deconstruction complete.
Analysis complete.
Infinite Eye integration successful.
Fusion complete – New host identified:
LORD W.
My mind EXPLODES.
The darkness swallows me.
FLASH.
Ruins.
A red moon.
Shadows kneeling before—
Me.
FLASH.
A throne. Chains. A laugh… inhuman.
FLASH.
Eyeless faces, voices whispering my name.
I scream.
The world comes back with a thunderclap.
I'm still here.
I'm still me.
But… something's changed.
The wind seems to await my command.
The shadows bow.
And those monsters in front of me…
They hesitate.
I smile.
A smile too white.
A smile too calm.
A smile infinitely black.
[FUSION MODE ACTIVATED – TIME LEFT: 45 SECONDS]
Four buttons.
Cross, Circle, Square, Triangle.
The first monster lunges.
So does my fist.
— Square, Triangle, Square.
BOOM.
Its skull EXPLODES before my fist even touches it.
The shockwave tears through the next one.
My feet no longer touch the ground.
I don't hit anymore. I decree.
One. Two. Three. Four KO.
A smooth combo like a cheat code unlocked.
They fall before they even understand.
But.
My head buzzes.
My vision glitches.
[Non-compliant Fusion.]
[Overload detected.]
Voices come back.
— "You're useless!"
— "Your brother's still unemployed!"
— "Madam, your son is a lost cause!"
A hammer strike to my skull.
Rusty nails in my memory.
My veins burn like electrical wires ready to snap.
— Iris… disconnect the fusion!
— Disconnection Impossible.
My breath turns to poison.
My skin burns.
The world crumbles.
No, more like I fall.
LITERALLY!!
The air whistles in my ears.
BOOM. First impact.
BAM. A pain that drains me.
THUD. The ground.
Game over.
Silence.
…
On my Hub.
[Minimal damage detected.]
I cough.
Each breath is a blade driven into my ribs.
A nervous laugh escapes my throat.
— MINIMAL?! I felt all the pain!
— Exactly.
I push myself up.
Three massive silhouettes emerge from the darkness.
But this time…
They have faces.
The first has a cyclopean eye.
It blinks. Everything it looks at begins to rot.
The second drools black liquid.
Each drop hisses and burns the ground like acid.
The last… glitches.
Its body changes shape with every blink. An error in reality.
One step. The ground shakes.
Two steps. The air turns sticky.
My HUD flickers.
[Fusion Mode – Time left: 25 seconds.]
Three against one.
They think I'll run.
I raise my head.
A smirk.
— You're ugly, but I've seen worse in my neighborhood.
They don't know…
… they've just opened the wrong door.
TO BE CONTINUED…