Chapter 55 – Helllock Entry: The Sector That Shouldn’t Exist
The moment I crossed the threshold, the interface changed.
Not a shift.
A tearing.
My system menus flickered.
Words reversed.
Fragments of corrupted code whispered through my head.
And in the center of my vision, a single word appeared:
> [UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS]
Followed by:
> WELCOME BACK, KAI RAVENHALL.
I hadn't been here before.
But something deep inside me screamed:
Yes. You have.
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> [Zone: HELLLOCK – ROOTS OF WRATH]
Type: Forbidden Sector // Scrubbed Missions // Archived User Echoes
Danger Level: SYSTEM-MAXIMUM
Memory Integrity Risk: Extreme
Status: Narrative Control Disconnected
Entity: Unknown
Sinner Class: Nullified / Reclassified
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The walls were made of obsidian and bone.
Each corridor pulsed like a heartbeat.
And every now and then, a whisper slipped through the air:
> "They deleted us."
"We were loyal."
"They punished us for their code."
"Why did you get forgiveness?"
The voices weren't ghosts.
They were ex-users.
Deleted.
Buried.
But not gone.
And now…
They wanted out.
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The first room was a control chamber, long abandoned.
Broken screens.
Dead interfaces.
Blood on the walls—not red, but pure black.
The kind that came from people whose names the system tried to erase.
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One screen still worked.
It showed me.
But not as I am now.
This was the Kai from before.
Before Maria died.
Before Elias vanished.
Before the sins.
He looked at the camera with blank eyes.
Then said:
> "You brought this on us. You finished the cycle. Now you have to see it through."
The feed cut.
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Suddenly—
The room locked down.
Sirens blared.
And a voice—one I hadn't heard in chapters—spoke directly into my skull.
> "Hello, Kai. Do you remember me?"
"You erased me in Chapter 3."
I froze.
Then remembered.
> USER ID: 5X-09 – "Thorne."
The one who begged for mercy when I rewrote his corrupted mission.
He hadn't died.
He'd been shoved down here.
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> [New Sinner Detected – Sinner Eight: "Thorne the Rewritten"]
Status: Deletion Survivor // Reality Modifier // Emotionally Disconnected
Threat: High – Capable of narrative inversion
Location: ROOT_SPIRE – Core of Helllock
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The walls cracked.
And a voice echoed like a drill behind my eyes:
> "You got to rewrite yourself."
"I got to be forgotten."
> "Now let's see what your rewrite looks like… when I'm the author."
The lights went red.
Gravity inverted.
And I fell—
Into Chapter 56.