The void between worlds shimmered.
Fragments of laws, broken runes, and data streams drifted endlessly like snow in a digital storm.
Li Feng stood in the middle of it, cloak rippling in the crosswinds of collapsing dimensions. The Heaven's Token pulsed faintly in his hand — a smooth, silver disk engraved with rotating sigils that whispered of higher permissions.
[Item recognized: Heaven's Token]
[Access Granted — Fragment Realm: Tier II "The Battlefield of Fallen Codes."]
A door of pure geometry formed before him, its edges flickering between gold and shadow.
Li Feng exhaled softly. "Let's see what your next world has for me."
He stepped forward.
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The Battlefield of Fallen Codes
Light warped. The moment he crossed the threshold, his vision flooded with endless motion.
He stood atop a metallic plain stretching farther than sight — broken constructs of angels and machines lay everywhere, their cores flickering faintly. The sky was a tapestry of golden lightning, data streams, and inverted constellations.
It wasn't Heaven. It wasn't Abyss.
It was a graveyard of systems — the remnants of experiments, discarded worlds, and defunct Collectors.
[Warning: High-density Attribute Zone detected.]
[Secondary Systems online: "Harvest Grid" synchronization 0.2%...]
Li Feng smiled. "So this is where they bury the failed Collectors."
All around him, half-corrupted holograms stirred — humanoid outlines, each marked with a faint "Collector ID" burned into their chest. Their eyes glowed like cracked screens.
[Detected: Autonomous Fragments of Past Hosts.]
[Energy Signature — unstable.]
[Recommendation: Neutralize and Collect before system corruption spreads.]
"Neutralize?" Li Feng murmured. "No. Let's upgrade."
He extended his hand. Twilight flared — both holy and abyssal — forming a spear of shifting light.
The first corrupted Collector lunged, moving at blinding speed. Its body fractured into seven shadows mid-air.
Li Feng didn't move. His gaze alone released ripples of twilight data.
Boom.
Each shadow froze mid-motion and imploded into fragments of code.
[You've collected: +11 Strength.]
[You've collected: +7 Speed.]
[Skill Fragment: Spatial Split (1/5).]
"Good start."
He moved, flickering through the battlefield like a glitch in creation. Every impact produced a shockwave of broken laws, scattering attributes like falling rain.
[+5 Intelligence]
[+3 Willpower]
[Skill Fragment: Quantum Edge (2/8)]
[Unique Drop: Memory Core (Corrupted) x1]
His system chimed incessantly, numbers layering like an orchestra of power.
But as the data grew, the sky began to tremble.
A new voice entered the battlefield — deep, mechanical, divine.
"Unauthorized Collector detected… initializing purge protocol."
The ground cracked. From the rift below, a colossal humanoid rose — half machine, half angel, its wings burning with binary flames.
[Fragment Guardian: "Seraphim-00" — Active.]
[Level: Unknown. Law Saturation: 82%.]
Li Feng's eyes sharpened. "A Guardian built to erase anomalies… interesting."
The Guardian raised its sword. Thousands of data sigils flared along its blade, forming an edge capable of cutting through rules themselves.
Li Feng's grin widened. "Let's test a theory."
He activated Twilight Harvest manually. The air behind him filled with spinning symbols — fragments of all the Collectors he had just absorbed. The next moment, they condensed into phantom shadows, mirroring his every stance.
When the Guardian struck, Li Feng didn't block — he mirrored.
Light met light.
The battlefield exploded.
Billions of data shards scattered across the plain like shattered stars. Each shard flickered with attributes.
[You've collected: +30 Strength.]
[+22 Energy Control.]
[+1 Law Comprehension.]
[Skill Fragment: Blade of Rule (1/10).]
The Guardian's blow cleaved the horizon, but Li Feng's counter sliced through time itself. A clean tear ran through the machine-angel's chest, exposing its core.
A cold voice emerged from within the data storm.
"Impressive… but incomplete."
Before Li Feng could reply, the Guardian duplicated itself.
One became two. Two became four.
Each copy wielded a different rule:
— Fire of Judgment.
— Ice of Silence.
— Gravity of Heaven.
— Void of the Abyss.
Even Li Feng's system faltered for a heartbeat.
[Warning: System interference detected.]
[Stability 92% → 71%...]
He exhaled, steadying himself. "You think I'm limited by your logic?"
The mark on his hand flared — gold and black intertwining into a silver pulse that froze the environment for half a second.
Within that brief eternity, Li Feng reached into the system's code and rewrote it.
[Command Override: Attribute Cap — Removed.]
Power rushed through him. Twilight light exploded outward, forming a massive vortex of data that devoured everything nearby — even the laws themselves.
When the frozen instant shattered, Li Feng appeared behind the four Guardians, a single word leaving his lips:
"Harvest."
The world dimmed.
All four Guardians disintegrated at once, dissolving into pure fragments of divine computation.
[You've collected: +120 Strength.]
[+88 Speed.]
[+95 Intelligence.]
[Skill Unlocked: Rule Severance (Lv1).]
[Unique Drop: Collector's Sigil (Type-Ω).]
Li Feng's aura stabilized. His shadow rippled with divine static.
The battlefield went quiet — except for the faint hum of data currents obeying him.
He looked at the glowing sigil in his hand — a black and gold insignia resembling a circuit intertwined with wings.
[Collector's Sigil (Type-Ω): Grants authority to override System limitations within one realm. Can summon constructs from absorbed attributes.]
Li Feng smiled faintly. "Now that's a real reward."
He flicked the sigil, and behind him, dozens of projections materialized — phantom soldiers forged from pure attributes, each a blend of skills he'd collected so far.
"Let's call you my 'Echo Legion.'"
The System responded in monotone:
[Echo Legion registered.]
[Units: 48 (Auto-sync enabled).]
The metallic plain trembled. In the far distance, new portals opened — other Collectors stepping into the battlefield, drawn by the energy spike.
Their eyes glowed with greed, madness, and desperation.
"So," one of them said, voice distorted, "the famous Dual-Origin has arrived."
Li Feng studied them silently — a dozen Collectors, each radiating immense power. Some bore halos of data, others fragments of abyssal light.
It was clear what this was.
The true test.
The war of Collectors.
He rolled his shoulders. "Good. I was getting bored."
He raised his hand — his Echo Legion mirrored him.
"System," he said softly. "Initiate Harvest Mode: Unlimited."
[Mode Confirmed.]
[All drops increased by 200%. Risk level: Fatal.]
Lightning cracked across the data sky.
Li Feng smiled. "Let's begin the harvest."