Chapter 137: System Purge
The world outside the vortex dissolved into a muted, distant memory.
Here, inside the belly of the beast, there was no stone, no air, no light only a chaotic sea of pure, weaponized emotion.
Screams, sobs, and hateful whispers assaulted my consciousness from all sides, each one a psychic shard aimed at my sanity.
Faces of my classmates flashed before me, their eyes wide with terror, their worst fears playing out in an endless, repeating loop.
I saw Leon being consumed by shadows that wore his sister's face, his holy flame sputtering against a foe he could not bring himself to strike.
I saw Aiden trapped in a suffocatingly small cage, his lightning arcing uselessly against the bars as his feral strength was stripped away, leaving him trembling and powerless.
This was not just an illusion but a real time relay of their fracturing minds, their traumas being accelerated and weaponized by the corrupted artificial intelligence.
