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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16: What Happens When a God Is Born From a Glitch

(Final Trial, Part 2 — THE REWRITE PATH)

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I chose the red orb.

Rage. Rewrite. Rebirth.

As my fingers closed around it, a fire ignited in my chest—not hot like flame, but raw, wild, algorithmic.My thoughts split into a thousand parallel threads.

I saw time stretch out before me.

Not just mine—everyone's.

Elya as a child, staring at a sky she didn't believe in.

Jonah playing piano before the System erased his song.

Purifiers praying to machines they didn't understand.

Humanity, waiting for a messiah… or a reset.

And for a moment, I became all of them.

[REWRITE PATH CONFIRMED]You have chosen to overwrite the existing code of reality.Architect Protocol Engaged.Warning: All current laws—magic, death, memory—are now variables in your control.Memory cost: Selfhood.Emotion cost: Fixed.

I stood on the edge of the world.

Beneath me, skyscrapers peeled into cascading code like collapsing cities in a dream.

Above me, stars blinked in new constellations—spell diagrams written across the galaxy.

The throne was gone. The Soul Weaver had bowed.Even the System... waited.

A single prompt hovered in the void.

[COMMAND LINE ACTIVE]Please input your first line of rewritten code:

I raised my hand. The ∆ rune now pulsed with steady red light.

And I spoke—not in magic, not in speech, but in law.

"// No more erasure."

The world shifted.

Echoes were no longer condemned to fade.They became guides, fragments of old wisdom in a new realm.

"// Magic obeys will, not birthright."

The bloodline barriers shattered. The magicless awoke screaming—reborn with power.

"// The System serves. It does not rule."

And the System... bowed.

The countdown was gone.

The game was over.

[WORLD REWRITE COMPLETE]New Architect: REN ISHIKAWATitle Gained: The Last Bug, The First GodAll soul fragments reabsorbed.Memory access: Locked. Identity dissolved.

Final message:

Would you like to remember who you were?

YesNo

I hovered over it.

And I chose:

No.

And in that final moment—Ren Ishikawa died.

And the world took its first breath… rewritten.

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