Hello everyone welcome to yet another episode of season 1.
Hope you guys will enjoy it.
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The elevator didn't go up.
As the doors hissed shut, the sensation wasn't one of rising, but of expanding.
The walls of the GAB lobby didn't just disappear, they were overwritten.
When the doors opened again, Han Jin, Lin Xi, and Fatty Wei weren't in a skyscraper. They were standing on a floating marble dais in the center of an endless, silent library. Massive pillars of white stone stretched into a sky made of swirling ink and starlight.
Every shelf was miles high, filled not with books, but with glowing jars of flickering memory and rusted weapons that hummed with ancient sorrow.
[BING! Welcome to Floor 1: The Archive of Forgotten Gods.]
[Status: Sub-Server of the Void Core.]
[Objective: Locate the Admin Key to unlock the stairs to Floor 2.]
[Warning: The Librarian does not like loud breathing.]
"This... this isn't a government building anymore," Fatty Wei whispered, his voice trembling as he looked into a jar containing the tiny, trapped image of a sun exploding. "This is a graveyard."
"It's a storage unit," Han Jin corrected, his eyes narrowed.
He recognized the architecture.
It was the Cold Storage style of the higher dimensions, a place where the Developer dumped outdated deities and broken laws of physics.
"Han Jin, look," Lin Xi said, pointing to a row of statues near the dais.
They weren't statues.
They were entities petrified in gray stone, their faces frozen in expressions of shock.
At the base of one statue--a four-armed warrior holding a broken lightning bolt ---was a small, copper plaque:
Indra (Version 0.8.2) - Deprecated due to low engagement
"They're turning gods into abandoned code," Lin Xi breathed, her Andromeda Seal pulsing with a sympathetic vibration.
"Shhh!" A voice like dry parchment scratching against a tombstone echoed through the hall.
From behind a pillar, the Librarian emerged. He was a hunched figure draped in robes made of shredded reality.
Instead of a head, he had a giant, glowing eye floating above a collar of floating keys.
[Entity: The Librarian (Rank: S-Rank Custodian)]
[Level: 99]
[Evaluation: He has read the ending of your story.
It wasn't a happy one.]
The Librarian's giant eye blinked, focusing on Han Jin.
The iris dilated, then contracted violently. "Wait... the signature.
The frequency. You... you were supposed to be deleted in the Great Tribulation of the Void.
Your file was closed, User 001."
"I filed an appeal," Han Jin said, stepping forward.
The Dragon Bone Cleaver rested casually on his shoulder.
"And now I'm here for the Admin Key.
Give it to me, and I won't turn your Archive into a Used Bookstore."
The Librarian let out a sound like a wheezing laugh. "The God-Emperor of the Ninth Heaven, reduced to threatening a clerk.
How dull, how the times have changed.
You want the key? It's held by the Legacy Lead--the god who refused to be archived."
The Librarian pointed to the very end of the hall, where a massive, throne-like chair sat. In it sat a man in tattered golden armor, his head bowed, a massive sword resting across his knees.
Han Jin's heart, the mortal one he was still getting used to gave a sharp tug. "Old Man...?"
The figure on the throne looked up.
His eyes were milky white, but his face was unmistakable.
It was the Grand Marshal of the Ninth Heaven, Han Jin's former mentor and the man who had sacrificed himself to give Han Jin a chance to survive the Void.
[Entity: Remnant of the Grand Marshal (Corrupted Data)]
[Status: Infected by the 'Update' Virus.]
[Behavior: Aggressive.
Programmed to protect the Admin Key.]
"Jin...?" the Grand Marshal croaked, his voice a distorted mix of static and memory. "Is that... you? No.
You're just a ghost.
A bug in the system.
I must... purge... the bugs."
The Marshal stood up, his sword erupting in a sickly green flame, the Delete flame of the Developer.
"Han Jin, wait!" Lin Xi grabbed his arm. "He's not real! He's a corrupted file meant to bait you into an emotional logic loop!"
"I know," Han Jin said, his voice dropping to a terrifyingly calm register.
He pulled out the Rusty Paperclip.
"But in my world, we don't delete our mentors.
We restore them."
[BING! New Combat Quest: System Restore!]
[Objective: Defeat the Grand Marshal without Deleting his data.]
[Penalty for Failure: You lose your memories of the Ninth Heaven.]
Han Jin didn't look at the System screen.
He looked at the man he had once called father.
"Old Man," Han Jin whispered, the cleaver beginning to glow with a pure, white light. "I'm going to have to hit you very hard.
But don't worry...I'm a much better Programmer than I used to be."
The Grand Marshal roared, the green flames of the Update virus tearing through the marble floor as he charged.
AN :- Jin meets someone from his past.....
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I want to ask something, the 1st season is differentiated into 2 different volumes , so is it better to be a arc or another season.
Second second brings in more complex concepts and stuff which are quite pun intended as real life uses.
So watch out.