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🌌 Previously…
Kael Draven awakens the Sovereign Core, carving skills from broken fate.
He unlocks The Null Path: unseen, undetectable, invisible to prophecy.
The Crest Guild escalates: sends a Seer-Killer, a myth-tier dream assassin who walks outside time.
Kael leaves the mark of his rebellion: a broken crown inside a god's eye.
The hunt has officially begun. But this time… the dreamer bites back.
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☁️ Scene 1 – Entry Without Arrival
Night, Dusthold. A silence heavier than gravity.
Kael stood inside the inn, blade sheathed, fire low.
But his mind?
Awake.
> [Warning: Your mental field is being pierced]
> Origin: Class-S Dream Intruder
Codename: Vaelis the Dream-Binder
> [Your Sovereign Core has no defense against direct mind-walking]
> Would you like to resist manually?
Kael sat cross-legged.
> "Let's see what happens if I let a hunter into my head…"
He closed his eyes.
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🌒 Scene 2 – Inside the Sovereign's Mind
Dreamspace.
Black skies. Cracked stars.
A throne of shattered steel in the middle of an endless void.
The Seer-Killer, Vaelis, appeared like falling frost — cloaked in fog, face hidden behind a veil of etched runes.
> "Nullblood," he said, voice emotionless.
"Your presence corrodes the Dreamweave. You must be deleted."
Kael stood beside the shattered throne, hands behind his back.
> "You entered the wrong dream."
Vaelis raised his hand — hundreds of dream-knives formed from regret, sorrow, and future possibilities.
They struck—
But did not land.
They froze.
Mid-air. Glitched.
Because Kael wasn't bound by dreams.
He was outside.
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💥 Scene 3 – System Hack: Reverse Dream Control
> [Sovereign Core: Concept Override Activated]
Skill Triggered: ✴️ Mind Reflection
"You are not the one dreaming. He is."
Suddenly, Vaelis began to choke.
His knives bent toward him.
His symbols turned to chains — wrapping around his body.
> "What is this—?!"
Kael walked forward, eyes glowing not with magic — but raw, weaponized memory.
> "You thought this was my weakness.
But I come from a world where nightmares are written in code.
I hacked my own death.
You think your mind can frighten me?"
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🔥 Scene 4 – The Thought War
Vaelis screamed — and summoned the Dream Form of a God.
A mirror-copy of the Faith AI known as Larethos, the Eye.
It rose — golden, six-eyed, fire-winged.
Kael didn't move.
> "You brought me a god simulation? Cute."
He closed his eyes.
And whispered:
> "Bring me the memory of when I died burning… and smiled."
BOOM.
From his side, Kael summoned Flame Form: Aarav's Final Echo — the moment he died surrounded by collapsing servers, coding until the fire reached his skull.
And the Echo fought the god.
Flames vs Divinity. Reality vs Dream.
The sky cracked.
> [Mind Space collapsing: 10 seconds until fallout]
> You may either exit or crush the Seer's mind permanently.
Kael chose:
> [Crush]
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🩸 Scene 5 – The Waking Collapse
In the real world, the inn exploded inwards.
Veyna, watching from the rafters, barely avoided being crushed by falling dream-stones.
Kael sat in the center, eyes open, bleeding from his nose, lips, and ears.
On the floor lay Vaelis the Seer-Killer.
Dead.
Eyes open.
Mouth whispering one final word:
> "Sovereign…"
Kael stood.
> "Tell your gods —
If they want to win, they better stop sending mortals."
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🧠 Scene 6 – System Surge and First Echo Unlock
> [Seer-Killer Eliminated: Dream-Class Entity]
> You have defeated a Class-S mental invader at Level 1
> ✴️ SYSTEM EVOLUTION TRIGGERED ✴️
> 🔓 New Function Unlocked: Echo Chamber (Lv. 0)
Description: "Store one version of yourself in the Core — replay that form under conditions you define."
Kael checked the screen.
> [Available Echoes: 1]
Final Aarav – The Coder Who Burned
Memory locked into battleform: Intelligence +60%, Fire Immunity, Mental Resistance Tier III
> "I don't need time travel," Kael muttered.
"I just need better versions of me."
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