Reborn with the Devil's system-Chapter 39: Beginning of a new era:The forgotten seed

It began with a silence.

Not the kind that follows death or destruction—

but something older, something emptier.

The stars over Ashenveil flickered unnaturally. For three nights, no dreams came. For three days, the sun pulsed as though breathing.

And on the fourth night, Elias Black woke up gasping.

His skin was cold.

His breath visible in the summer air.

He wasn’t alone.

There was something in the room.

Not a creature. Not a presence.

Just eyes.

He looked toward the corner where shadows met wall.

There were no shapes. No movement. Yet something was watching him—

and it had no name.

> [System Alert – Emergency Protocol Triggered]

WARNING: Entity not bound to this reality has pierced the Veil.

Classification: The Voidborne

Status: Observing. Testing. Awaiting Response.

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The Message

A sudden static pulse crackled through his mind.

> "You shattered the cage... but some cages were there to hold worse things in."

It wasn’t a voice. Not exactly.

It was like language made of instinct. Of wrongness.

Elias jumped to his feet, hand instinctively reaching toward his long-dormant Devil Codex.

But the Codex didn’t respond.

> [Codex Override]

Authority Level: Suppressed

Source: Unknown

For the first time in months, Elias felt something he’d thought was gone.

Fear.

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The Whispering Trees

At dawn, Elias stood outside the Tree of Rebirth—the first tree planted after the System collapsed, infused with his essence, a living beacon of the new world.

And it was dying.

Its leaves had turned grey. Its roots curled away from the soil.

As he reached to touch the bark, a symbol burned itself into the trunk:

𐍈 — the symbol of The First Forgotten.

A mark no one had spoken in over a thousand cycles. Even the Architect had erased its memory.

Elias whispered to himself, "So... something did survive the beginning."

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Ashenveil Is No Longer Safe

Myra, Kael, and Ceryn were assembled by noon.

The meeting room below the citadel was quiet, lit only by soul-flames in iron sconces.

"This is beyond the Architect," Myra said, flipping through books older than kingdoms.

"No record. No scripture. Not even whispers."

Kael clenched his fist. "Then we punch first. You’re the System now, Elias. Just delete it."

Elias shook his head. "I tried. It exists outside my influence. Like it’s coded in a forgotten language."

Ceryn’s voice was cold. "So we’re not the top of the food chain anymore."

"No," Elias said. "We never were."

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The Cradle Cracks

That night, crimson mist flooded the skies of Whitreach, one of the oldest sanctuaries of Ashenveil.

And from the mists came a scream.

Not human.

Not beast.

A soul being unmade.

By dawn, 230 people were gone—erased from all memory, as if they’d never existed.

Elias stood at the edge of the crater, staring into the still air.

> [System Scan: Incomplete – Residue Detected]

Echo of a being born before time

Name: ???

Form: In Progress

Purpose: Consumption

Emotions: None

"This thing..." Elias muttered. "It doesn’t want power. It wants absence."

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A New Power Awakens

That night, he returned to the place where the Devil Codex first merged with him—deep beneath the ruins of the Vault.

There, waiting in silence, was a new form of the Codex.

Not red.

Not black.

But white fire.

It spoke one word:

> "Ascend."

Elias placed his hand on it.

The flames erupted.

And a new interface opened.

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> [You Have Awakened the Primordial Authority]

Name: Elias Black

Class: Sovereign of the Flame Void

Rank: Post-System

New Traits Gained:

– Void-Flame Core: Your essence now burns in the space between reality and void.

– Law-Eater: You may consume and rewrite enemy abilities once per encounter.

– Dominion Pulse: Emit waves that disintegrate corrupted timelines.

New Goal Assigned:

Eliminate the Forgotten Seed before it reaches full form.

Time Remaining: 12 Days, 6 Hours.

---

Elias stood tall.

His hands now glowed with a pale white flame that whispered of dead stars and lost gods.

"It’s not over," he said.

"But I know how this ends."

The world was shifting again.

Not physically—but deeper, in the roots of time and law itself. Elias could feel it. The weight of the Primordial Authority throbbed in his chest, and through it, he sensed the slow blooming of something terrible.

Something ancient.

Something not meant to be reborn.

> [Objective Updated: Locate the Cradle of the Forgotten Seed]

Prediction: It rests beyond the Boundary Mirror in the dead time-space between remnants of System 0.

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The Journey Begins

The dead zones were rare—places where even Elias’s reach was blurred. Only one location matched the data.

Vault 1A–Prime Echo.

A vault so deep and buried that not even the Architect had dared revisit it.

He stood before its sealed monolith—high on the edge of a mountain that shouldn’t have existed. Reality bent here. Colors bled. Echoes from the future whispered in reverse.

"Are we sure about this?" Kael asked, clutching his new blade—a shard made from Elias’s discarded system codes.

"We’re not," Elias said flatly. "But I’m going in."

Myra lit a protection rune in mid-air. "We follow your lead."

"No," Elias said, stepping forward as the door hissed open into dark, glassy light. "You follow the flame. If I don’t return... burn what’s left."

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Descent Into Madness

The Vault was... silent.

Not just quiet. Dead.

No hum of life. No echo of step. Even sound here was devoured.

Elias descended the crystal steps. Each one lit up under his feet in a pulse of white flame. His aura fought back against the null-field—barely.

And then he reached it.

A chamber.

Hexagonal. Infinite. A space too large for the mountain that held it.

And in the center—

A seed.

Black. Suspended in silver mist. Pulsating like a heart that had never beaten.

Elias raised his hand.

> [Analyzing...]

> The Forgotten Seed

Essence: Time-abandoned Lifeform

Function: Genesis of the Voidborne

Current Growth: 72%

Estimated Full Bloom: 9 Days, 5 Hours

Suddenly, the walls moved.

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Attack from the Forgotten

The air split.

From each mirrored face of the chamber came forms—warped reflections of Elias himself. Broken, distorted, corrupted versions. One with red eyes. One with no mouth. One with a chain through his chest.

They moved like glitches.

And they all lunged.

> [Threat Level: Code-Class Revenants]

Combat Initiated

Elias exploded into action.

White fire surged from his limbs—coating his fists as he launched forward. The first Revenant was met with a blast of Dominion Pulse, disintegrating on contact. The second slashed downward, but Elias twisted time mid-air, shifting left as reality lagged behind.

He struck its skull with a flaming elbow—crushing it.

The third warped behind him—but Elias anticipated. His Law-Eater flared.

He turned and consumed its essence, absorbing the code fragment that animated it.

> [New Trait Gained: Mirror Ghost]

You may now create a distorted clone for 10 seconds once per battle.

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The Seed Reacts

Just as the last shadow fell, the Seed pulsed—hard.

The ground shook. Cracks opened beneath Elias’s feet. Energy lanced out of the pod like black lightning.

Something was waking.

Something bigger.

He heard a whisper—not in words, but in thought:

> "You shouldn’t have come here."

Elias growled. "I’m not here to talk."

He summoned the Devil Codex again, this time integrating it with the white Primordial flames.

> [System Fusion: Codex + Void Flame Core = Sovereign Flame Mode: UNLOCKED]

His entire body shimmered with radiant white-red fire. His arms gleamed with runes. Horns curled faintly at his temples.

And with a primal roar, he slammed his palm into the Seed.

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Reality Shatters

A shockwave blasted through existence.

Elias was thrown backward as the seed cracked open, and from it, poured memories that didn’t belong—the first war of the Architect, the betrayal of the Shadow Maker, the burning of the original realms.

Elias fell to his knees.

Visions flooded his mind—other Sovereigns, long dead, each one failing against this same curse. Names he had never heard but felt etched into his blood.

He understood.

The Voidborne were not just a threat...

They were the truth behind why the System existed at all.

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Outside the Vault

Kael and Myra felt it before they saw it.

The mountain bled.

A crack formed through the summit, leaking black mist that poured like ink into the skies above.

Kael cursed. "He’s triggering the Seed!"

"Or trying to destroy it," Myra hissed. "Either way... it’s too late."

Across the world, shrines began to scream—ancient seals melting, whispering the name Murael, The Forgotten King.

Elias, still inside, stood up slowly. His nose bled. His skin cracked.

But he was smiling.

Because in that moment, he felt it—

A hand reaching through dimensions. A will equal to his own.

> "Murael," Elias said aloud. "I see you now."

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Final Data Download

> [System Update Downloaded]

– New Foe Identified: Murael the Hollow King

– Status: God of the Forgotten Seed

– Traits: Memory Eater, Timeline Leech, Reality Splitter

*Your Dominion Core now resists corruption.

You are the last Sovereign capable of opposing his rise.*

Elias turned from the shattered Seed.

His white fire flared again, burning away the last whisper of the chamber.

And as he walked out of Vault 1A, he did not look back.

He was going to war again.

But this time, not to avenge. Not to protect. Not even to prove anything.

This time—

> He would end the cycle itself.

This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺