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🌌 Previously...
Kael Draven, the Nullblood Sovereign, awakened a glitched system outside the control of gods, fate, or aura.
He defeated the Level-42 executioner Goremaw while still Level 0.
Now at Level 1, his Sovereign Core begins unlocking forbidden traits.
He enters Dusthold, a lawless border town.
An informant named Veyna takes interest, suspecting Kael isn't from this world — or even this timeline.
The gods begin execution protocols: Kill the anomaly before it spreads.
Now, the world tightens.
Kael?
He sharpens his mind.
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🧠 Scene 1 – Upgrade in the Shadows
In the back chamber of a ruin-stained inn, Kael stood before a broken mirror.
Not to admire himself — but to test a theory.
> [Sovereign Point: 1]
[System Prompt: "Spend to awaken Passive or Unlock System Function?"]
Kael chose:
> "Function: Skillforge – Sovereign Path"
> [Confirmed. Sovereign Forge unlocked.]
Description: Allows creation of custom skills based on concepts, memories, or raw emotion. No aura or class restrictions.
Limit: One skill per Level unless additional points spent.
The forge UI burned into his mind like code stitched across stars.
[Create New Skill]
> Input: Emotion/Memory/Concept
Tier: ???
Energy Cost: Depends on instability
Kael closed his eyes.
He thought of silence. Of being ignored. Of walking through fire while others stood in light.
He thought of being unseen — not invisible, but unnoticed, like death in disguise.
And whispered:
> "I am the blade that fate overlooks."
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⚔️ Skill Created: "No-Shadow Edge"
> Type: Cognitive Stealth Blade
Effect: Manifest a semi-real weapon that cannot be sensed by aura, detection spells, or prophecy-based combat precognition.
Bonus: +20% critical chance against those stronger than the user
Limitation: Can only be used while alone or in full shadow
Kael opened his hand.
A blade of pure stillness formed. It reflected nothing. Not even light.
> "Let them look.
Let them scan.
They won't see the knife in their own throat."
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🏙️ Scene 2 – First Contract
Veyna returned that night.
She dropped a parchment on his table, stained with blood and sigil-locked with silver thread.
> "Someone in Dusthold offered ten silver marks to anyone who can kill a 'nameless outlander with no aura.' Sounds familiar?"
Kael glanced at it.
He didn't flinch.
> "Let them come."
But Veyna leaned in.
> "This isn't local. The bounty came from inside the Crest Guilds. That means the gods have moved a contract."
Kael's eye twitched.
Crest Guilds weren't bounty hunters. They were state-funded. Temple-blessed. War-trained.
> "The contract name is… 'Ghostroot Protocol.' Ever heard of that?"
He had.
Back on Earth, it meant a total wipeout command — no trace left.
> "They want you erased so hard you never existed."
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🐍 Scene 3 – The Assassin From the Sky
Night.
Rain.
Dusthold slept.
But Kael did not.
He waited. In shadow. Barefoot. Eyes open.
His thoughts humming with logic and threat patterns.
Then — a flicker.
A cloaked man landed silently on the balcony. His breath didn't fog. His body made no sound.
Kael whispered, "Guild?"
> "Shadow-14. Crest Class. Ghostroot. Apologies."
And the man rushed him — aura-cloaked blade shimmering with curse script.
Kael didn't move.
The blade swung. Passed through air. Hit only shadow.
> [No-Shadow Edge Activated]
Cloaked
Invisible to aura sense
> Critical Window: 3 seconds
Kael reappeared behind him.
His own edge — unseen — whispered through the man's spine.
The assassin gasped.
And fell.
No scream. No blood.
Just... silence.
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💀 Scene 4 – The Aftermath and Message to the Gods
Kael picked up the corpse's crest badge.
It shimmered — linked directly to the Guild's divine terminal.
> [Tampering Detected – Would you like to send a response?]
Yes.
Kael leaned in.
And whispered:
> "You sent a shadow to kill me.
So I became one."
"Next time, send a god."
Then crushed the crest under his heel.
Far away, in the inner sanctum of a holy guild-city, six Guild Elders received the transmission.
One of them — blindfolded and ancient — simply said:
> "The Sovereign lives. And he has begun to bite back."
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