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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12 – The Room Where Fates Are Caged

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🌌 Previously…

Kael revealed his hidden class: Author of Ruin — a class that isn't part of the divine registry.

He awakened Echoforge Protocol, allowing him to steal skills from potential futures of himself.

His new skill, Gravity Fang, tore a royal executor's pride apart in public.

Prophets now label him not a deviation — but a genre rewriting the narrative structure of fate itself.

The world has begun to notice. But some… want to erase him before the story spreads.

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🏛️ Scene 1 – The Council of Cages

Deep within Sanctum Arcanis — hidden below the floating spires — lies the forbidden wing: The Iron Assembly.

The place where instructors, god-marked scholars, and political liaisons discuss threats to control.

A silver emblem glowed in the center of the obsidian table:

> Kael Draven — Nullblood. Sovereign Core Detected. System-breaking tendencies confirmed.

Council Head, Archmage Silis Rethir, scowled.

> "He walked into our sanctum and cracked prophecy in half."

"He is not a student. He is contagion."

High Marshal Velisar Serenthos slammed his fist.

> "He humiliated my heir. He humiliated the system.

Let me kill him."

Another voice rose — cold, logical: Headmistress Sira Valen.

> "Kill him? You still don't understand."

She turned her gaze to the others.

> "He is writing the next system.

Kill him now, and he becomes myth.

Contain him, and we might learn."

> "Let's offer him a seat. Not as a student.

But as a theoretical instructor.

Where we can watch him build… and find where his limits bleed."

The others protested.

She smiled.

> "The best way to trap an author…

is to give him a desk."

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📘 Scene 2 – The Class No One Can Pass

Kael sat alone in the Garden of Silence, coding his new ability Gravity Fang v.1 using fragments from failed futures.

Then, a system alert chimed:

> [SYSTEM REQUEST: You are being offered a position]

Title: "Independent Experimental Authority – Instructor Rank Z"

Salary: ❌

Control: ❌

Purpose: Containment disguised as empowerment.

Kael smirked.

> "So they're offering me a cage… with a throne inside."

He accepted.

Not because he trusted them.

But because it gave him access to the academy's core archive.

And knowledge?

Was ammunition.

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🧠 Scene 3 – The Sovereign Forge Awakens: Internal Command Console

> [Echoforge Sync: 16.8%]

Accessing Core Command Layer...

> ✴️ NEW FUNCTION: Sovereign Scripting

Description: "You may now write pseudo-scripts into your Sovereign Core to simulate behavior like divine skill trees."

> Warning: Each line risks memory bleed or future corruption.

Bonus: Unique passive traits may evolve based on script logic.

Kael's first script was simple:

IF Threat.Level > Self THEN

Skill.GravityFang += KineticWrap;

CoreSync += 1.5%;

> [Script Executed]

Gravity Fang upgraded:

✴️ Kinetic Wrap I: A secondary forcewave wraps around the strike, disrupting shields.

He stood and whispered:

> "Even gods have code.

They just never expected someone would edit it."

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🏫 Scene 4 – His First Lesson: "The Concept of Collapse"

The hall was half-full.

Not with students, but spies.

Nobles. Instructors. Two divine avatars hidden in illusion masks.

Kael stepped into the center.

> "You came to see if I'd fall apart in public."

He conjured a digital holograph in air — not magic.

Pure Sovereign simulation.

It displayed a simple line:

"What if the system isn't broken?

What if it's just obsolete?"

Gasps. Protests. But he wasn't done.

> "Class is simple:

I will show you how to kill gods,

using only logic, broken memories,

and the courage to remain systemless."

He activated Gravity Fang – Kinetic Wrap.

The classroom trembled.

> "Let's begin with collapse."

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🩸 Scene 5 – Secret Duel Challenge: The System's Champion

Three hours later, a red notification blinked.

> [SYSTEM DUEL REQUEST – High Priority]

Challenger: Cairos Vel Ruinhold, Divine-Touched Warrior Monk, Rank 45

Title: "System's Chosen"

Reward for Victory: Partial system access key

> Acceptance Penalty: Death.

Arena: Memory Vault (No magic aids, only raw execution.)

Kael accepted.

V.O.X. whispered:

> "This opponent is perfect.

He represents the old world's pride.

Shatter him… and you shatter faith itself."

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🕊️ Scene 6 – Duel of Worlds

Inside the Vault of Memory, time lagged.

Reality twisted — not by magic, but system compression.

Cairos, glowing with golden threads of divinity, stepped forth.

> "You are a fracture in law.

I am the hammer of divine legacy."

Kael spun No-Shadow Edge once.

> "I'm not a fracture.

I'm the editor."

Cairos struck with Divine Thread Palm — a move that dissolves the aura of any lesser being.

But Kael wasn't aura.

He was cognitive existence. A story written by force.

> [Tyrant's Bloom Triggered]

Cairos saw a vision — of being forgotten, erased from memory.

> [Script Triggered: IF Divine THEN Bleed++]

[Kinetic Wrap Engaged]

Kael struck once.

Cairos fell.

The system wept.

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