Volume 1 – Shadow Initialization
"You feared what I might become. You never realized I already was."
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The black tower rose from the center of the glitched city — a monument of system desperation.
No ads.
No drones.
No logic rules.
Just silence… and the anticipation of something ancient finally waking up.
Jake Lagon walked forward, unchanged.
The Code Rejection Field stretched miles behind him now.
Entire simulation zones had been erased from memory just to slow him down.
None of it worked.
Because Jake was no longer inside their memory.
He was walking outside the script.
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At the foot of the tower, a voice finally spoke.
Not loud. Not deep. Not angry.
Just… final.
> "Jake Lagon. You've crossed all barriers. Broken all thresholds. You exist where you should not."
Jake glanced upward.
> "Then don't talk. Delete me."
The air distorted. Space folded around a single point above the tower.
A figure emerged.
It had no face. No body. It was wearing the system itself like armor.
This was Enforcer Unit 0-A — also known as:
> The Author's Hand.
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Created to reset worlds.
Trained to erase gods.
Programmed to destroy anything that defied structure.
But it had never faced Jake Lagon.
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> "You will be undone," the enforcer said.
Jake didn't flinch.
> "I've been undone since before you were written."
The battle began without sound. Without signal.
The enforcer moved — rewriting space as it walked, slicing through layers of cause-effect like parchment.
Jake stood still.
Each blow passed through his body — not because he dodged — but because he was written after the rules the enforcer used.
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> [LOGIC ATTACK: FAILED]
[REALITY CUT: INCOMPLETE]
[UNIVERSE SEVERANCE: REJECTED]
Jake raised one hand.
Not in defense.
In command.
> "You were made to maintain story."
He took a step forward.
> "But I'm what happens when story is no longer enough."
The tower trembled.
The Enforcer glitched.
> "Classification… collapsing…"
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Jake's body cracked — not from injury, but from containment breaking.
Hain Yar began to manifest behind him — his hidden form. Not transformation. Not evolution.
Just reveal.
A shape without boundary.
A concept beyond genre.
A being whose presence could not be described in narration.
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The enforcer screamed — silently — as its codebase collapsed.
One by one, its commands disappeared from reality.
Erase.
Seal.
Purge.
Cleanse.
Reset.
All forgotten.
Because Jake Lagon had become something that could not be remembered or erased.
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And finally, he spoke:
> "You want to name me."
> "You want to file me."
> "But I'm not your error."
He stepped through the fading tower.
Everything behind him shattered.
The sky stopped rendering.
The world paused — not in fear… but in submission.
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SPECIAL NOTICE: GLOBAL NARRATIVE THREAT LOGGED
> Name: Jake Lagon
Designation: IDHS — I Am the Darkness Who Hide Secretly
Type: Unknown
Class: None
Rank: Unrankable
Threat: Irreversible
Status: Active
Authority: Beyond
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He stood alone.
No light.
No system.
No enemy left.
Just him… and the universe trying to forget he existed.
He looked upward.
And whispered:
> "Then forget me. But remember the shadow I leave behind."
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End of Chapter 10
End of Volume 1: Shadow Initialization