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Chapter 57 - Chapter 57

The rupture was no longer just digital.

The tower groaned.

Its walls—once solid as mountains—cracked faintly with threads of lightless code crawling up from the floor like veins of corruption. The air trembled. Reality distorted.

Elias stood near the Lust Core, fists clenched, the message still burned into his interface:

> "Choose: Love or Reset."

He whispered, "I already did."

But Protocol Nexis wasn't satisfied with words.

It wanted proof.

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The First Fracture: Aya

Aya's training room flickered.

She blinked—once, twice.

And suddenly, she wasn't in the tower anymore.

She stood in the ruins of her old sect, ash in the wind, the screams of her brothers and sisters echoing around her. Blood stained her hands.

"No…"

She took a step back—but the illusion held.

In front of her stood her master—face twisted in disappointment.

"You ran," the illusion spat. "You let them die."

Aya's sword shook in her hand.

"This isn't real. This isn't real."

But her legs froze.

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