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Chapter 144 - EP.144 – Flame Against Code

The sky was bleeding light.

Jiwoon hovered midair — his wings of black flame cutting through corrupted space like divine blades. Below him, The Overdue bled static and screamed with a thousand stolen voices.

"You are the flaw! You were never supposed to wake the Avatar form!"

Jiwoon didn't respond with words.

He dived.

The first strike landed like a comet — sending shockwaves through the glass-layered world. Each flap of his wings erased corrupted code. Each breath carried truth: this was his system now.

Vera and Kaelya fought to hold the borders, fending off split-code monsters crawling from the cracks.

Kaelya: "He's burning through the system like it's paper…"

Vera: "But he's alone up there."

Kaelya looked up.

"Then maybe it's time we stop just watching."

Meanwhile – Internal System Core

The Overdue began collapsing into tendrils of corrupted code, twisting toward the obsidian heart.

"If I die… I take the origin with me!"

Jiwoon landed before it — eyes glowing red-gold.

He gritted his teeth. "Then I'll rewrite both."

He raised his hands.

[New Skill Unlocked: Sin Rewrite – Domain Break]

Black sigils exploded outward — not as destruction, but as clarity.

Every broken line of code, every distorted scream, every cursed loop was rewritten in Jiwoon's voice.

"You don't decide what's justice anymore."

"I do."

The final strike wasn't loud. It was clean.

A single black flame entered The Overdue's chest, and the entity… simply stopped existing.

[System Update]

Final Purge Completed

Corruption Level: 0%

Sin Points Reset

New System State: "Manus Dei" – User-Controlled Balance Protocol

Jiwoon is now recognized as System Host.

He fell to one knee — wings fading.

Kaelya rushed forward. "You did it. You… won."

Jiwoon looked at his hands.

"No. I reclaimed what was mine."

From the shattered obsidian heart, a new core began to form — smaller, quieter, and pulsing in rhythm with Jiwoon's breath.

Vera approached, looking at the horizon.

"So… what now?"

Jiwoon closed his eyes.

"We build. A system that forgives."

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