---
Midnight bells tolled as Kael paced his dorm, sanity a frayed thread at **20/100**. Hallucinations bled into reality:
- Blood dripped from the War God's spectral armor
- Vorlag's laughter echoed in the wind
- The walls pulsed like a Void Nexus
***"Steady,"*** rumbled the War God. ***"They come for your weakness. Show them strength."***
As if summoned, the window shattered. Three **Void-Touched Cultists** slithered in, their eyes leaking purple smoke:
> **[ENEMY: VOID CULTIST (x3)]**
> **• LEVEL:** 15 (Human/Void Hybrid)
> **• AFFINITY:** Void Corruption
> **• ABILITIES:** [Soul Siphon], [Shadow Step]
Lira's daggers pinned the first to the wall before Kael could blink.
**"Darius! Flank left!"**
---
Kael triggered **[Wrath-Surge: AGI]**, becoming a crimson blur. His palm slammed a cultist's chest:
**"ANNIHILATE: HEART!"**
The cultist *disintegrated*. Bronze text flared:
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ **[ENEMY DEFEATED!]** ┃
┃ **• XP GAINED:** +150 ┃
┃ **• WAR POINTS:** +30 ┃
┃ **• CURRENT XP:** 570/500 ┃
┃ **! LEVEL UP !** ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> **[STATUS UPDATE]**
> **LEVEL:** 8 → **9**
> **HEALTH:** 100%
> **SANITY:** 20/100 → **15/100** (Overuse Penalty)
> **STR:** 24 → **25**
> **AGI:** 17 → **20**
> **END:** 16 → **17**
> **PER:** 7 → **8**
> **FREE STAT POINTS:** 3
> **ABILITIES:**
> • [Annihilate] (Tier 2: 5kg Mass Limit)
> • [Void-Bane] (+25% Damage vs. Void)
> **AFFINITY:** War/Destruction (S-Rank)
> **DEBUFFS:**
> • [Void Mark] (Tracked by Void Entities)
> • [Sanity Bleed] (-1 Sanity/Hour)
Darius crushed the last cultist's skull, stone fists glowing ominously.
**"My turn! Seismic St— ARGH!"**
He collapsed as violet cracks spiderwebbed across his stone skin.
> **[DARIUS STATUS]**
> **• VOID CORRUPTION DETECTED IN EARTH AFFINITY**
> **• REACTION: ALLERGY-LIKE PAIN**
Lira hauled him up, eyes narrowed. **"Since when does earth *reject* void?"**
---
While Kael stabilized Darius, Lira vanished into the Academy's forbidden archives. She returned at dawn, face pale.
**"The last War Affinity user,"** she whispered, projecting a hologram:
- **NAME:** Valerius the Bloodlord
- **STATUS:** Ascended to Void King (Year 743 Post-Godswar)
- **FATE:** Devoured 3 continents before vanishing
**"He kept journals,"** Lira said, showing scorched pages:
*"The Void offers salvation from the War God's madness. Embrace the hunger."*
Kael's scars burned. The War God snarled:
***"LIES! He traded honor for false peace!"***
---
As they debated, the air froze. Shadows coalesced into a figure robed in dying starlight:
> **[VOID WHISPER KING - MALAKOR]**
> **• LEVEL:** 50 (Elder Void Entity)
> **• THREAT:** Cataclysmic
> **• ABILITY:** [Reality Fracture]
**"Kael Vance,"** Malakor hissed, voice like shattering glass. **"Valerius sends an offer: Serve the Void, and we will *cure* your crumbling mind."**
A vision flooded Kael's senses:
- Sanity restored to **100/100**
- The War God's voice silenced forever
- Unlimited power without cost
***"BETRAYAL!"*** roared the War God. ***"THE VOID DEVOURS SOULS, NOT SAVES THEM!"***
Kael's fist ignited crimson. **"I've had enough of false gods."**
---
Malakor raised a hand. Reality *splintered*:
- The floor became lava
- Gravity inverted
- Darius' stone skin *melted*
Lira screamed as void-tendrils speared her shadow.
**"KAEL! NOW!"**
Kael allocated his stats mid-fall:
> **FREE STATS SPENT:**
> **• +2 AGI (20 → 22)**
> **• +1 PER (8 → 9)**
DEAD CALM ACTIVATED
(
He annihilated the tendrils holding Lira, then *leaped* through fractal-space toward Malakor.
**"ANNIHILATE: ANCHOR POINT!"**
His palm struck not flesh, but the *concept* of Malakor's form.
The Whisper King shrieked as crimson light tore through his essence:
> **[CRITICAL HIT!]**
> **• VOID INTEGRITY: 100% → 67%**
Malakor fled, reality snapping back. His final whisper echoed:
**"When sanity breaks... we'll be waiting."**
---
Kael collapsed as notifications flooded his vision:
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ **[ENEMY REPELLED!]** ┃
┃ **• XP GAINED:** +300 ┃
┃ **• WAR POINTS:** +100 ┃
┃ **• CURRENT XP:** 870/600 ┃
┃ **! LEVEL UP !** ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> **[STATUS - LEVEL 10]**
> **HEALTH:** 78% (Reality Fracture Burns)
> **SANITY:** 15/100 → **10/100**
> **STR:** 25
> **AGI:** 22
> **END:** 17
> **PER:** 9
> **FREE STAT POINTS:** 5
> **NEW ABILITY:**
> • [Reality Anchor] (Resist Spatial Manipulation)
> **AFFINITY SYNCHRONIZATION:** 80%
> **VOID MARK INTENSITY:** ████████░░ 80%
Thorne found them amidst the ruins.
**"Malakor,"** he breathed. **"He's Valerius' herald. This was a recruitment test."**
Lira showed Valerius' journal entry:
*"The War God's 'gift' is a cage. The Void sets you free."*
Kael extinguished the crimson flame in his palm.
**"Then I'll break the cage."**
Then he woke up was it a dream no it seems to be a vision of the future because he was not yet fully a member of the academy he checked his status yet all the levels he gained in the dream realm were added to his regular stats the systems voice sounded in his ears
***Users soul was transported to an alternate reality while update occurred the alternate world is a world in which you failed in this is the last realm standing try to keep it that way Good Luck***.
---
---