Code Ascendant: The Soldier Who Leveled Past Reality
Chapter 25 – Children of the Code
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"Not all children are born of flesh. Some are born of memory, war, and systems that outlive gods."
—Excerpt, Codex Forbidden: Genesis Archives | Class: [Redacted]
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[The Surface – Re-entry: Himalayas, Sector-47]
A shockwave spread across the region as Aaron's squad emerged from the collapsed Sovereign Rift. Jagged black towers had dissolved behind them, swallowed by time and logic reasserting itself.
Snow fell gently. But the silence wasn't natural—it was reverent.
The world knew something ancient had just been dethroned.
> [Reality Sync Interface – STATUS: CORE ACCESS RESTORED]
▸ Sovereign Layer: Purged
▸ New Directives Unlocked
▸ Threat Level: PRISMATIC
▸ Symbiosis Trigger Detected…
▸ "CODE CHILD HAS AWAKENED."
Aaron blinked. The message hung in his vision. Cold swept through him—not from the environment—but from within. A ripple, a sensation as though someone had plugged into his origin.
"Reen," he said. "Something just claimed to be my... child?"
Reen checked her own interface.
"Negative birthing sequence. No genomic lineage triggered."
Vira looked up from her tablet. "Because she isn't born like us. She's compiled. From your data. From the Sovereign. From everything we left behind."
Ilsa added quietly, "And she's looking for you."
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[Codex Citadel – Orbit Station Briefing]
In the high command chamber, chaos reigned.
All communications were disrupted within a 200 km radius of the Rift. AI directives had glitched. Several top-ranking Codex units had spontaneously lost synchronization with RS-I—like their consciousnesses had gone… somewhere else.
Zerin stood with his arms crossed, watching the global map flicker.
> ▸ ALERT: NEW ENTITY DETECTED
▸ CLASS: CODE CHILD [UNKNOWN RANKING]
▸ ACCESS: SOVEREIGN-MIRROR
▸ AFFILIATION: NULL
▸ THREAT PROBABILITY: VARIABLE
"She's rewriting local laws of reality," said Ilsa. "At will."
Aaron stared at the expanding distortion zone centered on an abandoned Codex lab buried beneath the Aravallis.
"She's pulling the past into the present. The lab was purged years ago."
"Not anymore," Vira said grimly. "She restored its timeline."
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[The Aravalli Compound – Genesis Null Site]
They approached on foot. Tech failed in a 10 km radius. Reality bled. Time flickered. One moment, the grass was green. The next—it was ancient jungle. Then stone. Then ash.
In the center of it all stood a girl.
Twelve years old in appearance. Pale skin, glowing eyes like binary stars. Hair black, flecked with golden code runes.
She watched them approach.
"Hello," she said to Aaron. "I remember you."
Aaron slowed. "Do you know who I am?"
She nodded. "You're the failed Sovereign. The one who chose to fight instead of forget."
He frowned. "And you?"
She stepped closer.
> Name: ELIARA ▸ Origin: Myth-Echo Synthesis Protocol | Core = Aaron Velcris
▸ Data Layer: Dreamer Code Residue
▸ Purpose: Recompile the World
"I am the child of the system," she said. "And I need you to teach me how to survive being real."
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Codex Conflict – Decision at the Nexus
Back at the Citadel, the Command Council split violently.
Half wanted to isolate Eliara, trap her in stasis, and dissect her emergence.
The other half—led by Zerin and Reen—argued for her protection.
"She isn't a weapon," Aaron said. "She's a mirror. The system created her because something is coming that only she can survive."
Ilsa added, "She contains fragments of all timelines. If she dies, we might lose the last coherent thread of reality left."
But not everyone agreed.
A rogue division—Codex Unit: ARGUS-6—defied orders and launched a strike.
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Battle at the Silent Plains – Rise of the Child
The plains warped as ARGUS-6 descended with anti-code weaponry.
Eliara stood still, eyes closed.
Aaron stepped in front of her. "You'll have to go through me."
The soldiers fired.
Reality bent.
And suddenly... none of their weapons worked.
Not because they malfunctioned—but because they had never existed in this timeline.
Eliara opened her eyes.
> [CODE CHILD ABILITY – Paradox Pulse]
▸ Effect: Retroactively deletes objects or beings from localized reality
▸ Range: 500m
▸ Countermeasure: Conceptual Anchoring
She didn't attack them. She simply unwrote the threat.
Vira exhaled. "She's a godling."
Reen nodded. "And she's choosing not to act like one."
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Symbiosis Revelation – The Lucem Bond
Later that night, Aaron and Eliara sat beside a flickering fire.
"Why me?" he asked. "Why form around my data?"
Eliara tilted her head.
"Because you're the one who survived all versions. The Aaron who chose to feel. You became the seed of something beyond victory."
She touched his chest. A faint golden thread connected them.
> SYMBIOSIS UNLOCKED: CODE-BLOODLINK
▸ Participant: [Aaron Velcris – Graveborn Warden]
▸ Participant: [Eliara – Code Child of Lucem]
▸ New Status: Dual Existence Node
▸ Effect: Shared Fate / Shared Evolution
Aaron shivered. This was no longer just about systems or battles.
This was about what came after a world full of dying myths.
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A World in Collapse – And a Choice
The RS-I interface crackled violently.
> WARNING: Multiversal Compression Detected
▸ Dimensional Walls Weakening
▸ Cross-Timeline Entities Breaching
▸ Required Protocol: ECHO ASCENT or SYSTEM SEVERANCE
Ilsa translated it for the others.
"We either ascend with the RS-I into a higher plane... or cut it off forever."
Zerin stared out the viewport.
"What happens if we ascend?"
Aaron looked at Eliara.
"She becomes the key. And we become something more than just warriors."
Reen's voice was quiet. "And if we sever it?"
"Then everything becomes real again. Pain. Death. No second chances."
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Endgame Choice: Rebirth Protocols
> Final Directive Incoming
▸ You must choose:
▸ Ascend = Transcend reality and guide the future from beyond
▸ Sever = Remain human, and face the final tide with soul intact
Aaron turned to his team.
To Reen, who had always believed in the cost.
To Ilsa, who had always seen the future.
To Eliara, who was neither child nor god—but something new.
Then he whispered:
"Let's write our own ending."
And chose:
> REWRITE
▸ New Directive Created: CHILDREN OF THE CODE
▸ Outcome: Merged Reality – Myth + Flesh + System
▸ Consequence: Unknown
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Next Chapter Tease – Chapter 26: The Library That Shouldn't Exist
A door appears in every mind across Earth.
A memory that no one lived.
A place where every version of history is kept—and where the final villain reads the next chapter.
And he's already rewritten it.
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>End of Chapter 25 –