CHAPTER 6 —
THE DAY EVERYTHING BROKE It happened without warning.
No prophecy.
No countdown.
No sign in the sky.
At the same moment, across the world, every sixteen-year-old froze.
Then a voice—cold, neutral—echoed in their minds:
[SYSTEM INITIALIZING]
Phones dropped.
Cars crashed.
Classrooms erupted.
No one knew what a "System" was.
No one had prepared.
Humanity learned the truth in a single second:
The world had changed.