Chapter 4 – The System Awakens
Kairo – 17 Years Later
I never knew there was something inside me.
Until the sky cracked.
It started with the dreams. Whispers in languages I didn't understand. Symbols floating behind my eyes. My body ached for something I couldn't name.
Then the system came.
A blue screen.
Hovering mid-air, unreadable to anyone but me at first.
> [SYSTEM INITIATING...]
[USER FOUND: KAIRO EVERNIGHT]
[INHERITANCE DETECTED: 0.01% UNSEALED]
[God Key Fragment Located – Awakening in Progress...]
I passed out.
When I woke, the world had changed.
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Chaos Across Earth
They called it The Shift.
Mountains erupted from cities. Oceans boiled. The stars above formed new constellations.
People started seeing screens—floating text no one could explain. Stats. Classes. Quests. Even Levels.
Monsters appeared from nowhere.
Dungeons tore open like infected wounds across the continents. Countries fell in days. The military couldn't even shoot some of them—they respawned.
But I was different.
While others got basic classes...
> [You have inherited: God-Class Seed – Locked]
[Provisional Class Assigned: Shadowless Vagabond]
[Hidden Title Acquired: "Sleeper of Evalof"]
What the hell was going on?
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Voices in My Head
That's when he spoke to me.
Evalof.
A voice inside my soul—weak, ancient, heavy with sorrow.
> "You are the final gate, Kairo. The gods will come. The Behemoth is stirring. And you… must awaken."
> "Who are you?" I whispered aloud.
> "A failure. A thief. A god… who burned too bright."
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Dungeons. Towers. War.
Within days, Earth wasn't Earth anymore.
Nations became factions.
Cities turned into strongholds. People formed guilds, towers, hunting teams. Every day was a war for EXP, skills, territory.
The weak died quickly.
The strong hunted.
And I—Kairo—was stuck between something deeper. Something bigger.
The system wasn't random.
It was calling to me.
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Final Scene – The Key Reacts
The night before my first dungeon raid, I stared at the sky.
One of the new moons—the third one—turned black for exactly five seconds.
In that moment, my chest burned.
The Key stirred.
> [God Key Fragment Unsealed – 2.3% Active]
[New Trait Acquired: "Divine Thread Perception"]
And I realized...
The gods were watching again.
Evalof wasn't dead.
And I was not alone.
End of Chapter 4