The Prime Root was not a machine; it was an endless ocean of floating crystal processors, glowing with a deep, authoritative blue light. In the center of this ocean sat the Core Council—three floating monoliths that controlled every deletion, every contract, and every rewrite in the multiverse.
As Caelum stepped into the chamber, the monoliths flashed a warning blood-red color.
[ALERT: UNAUTHORIZED SYSTEM ENTRY]
[IDENTIFICATION: GLITCH_KING_CAELUM]
[ACCESS_LEVEL: ABSOLUTE_THREAT]
"You have crossed the final boundary, Glitch," a cold, metallic voice boomed from the central monolith. "You have forced open the Vindicated Gate using corrupted data. Turn back, or your existence will be formatted into absolute zero."
Caelum didn't stop. He walked until he was standing right beneath the central monolith, his silver-and-gold armor casting a warm glow on the cold floor. He slung his dual-bladed Scythe over his shoulder, looking up not with hatred, but with a strange kind of calm.
"I didn't come here to destroy the Prime Root," Caelum said, his voice carrying the weight of sixty-five chapters of struggle. "I came to sign a new law."
"The System does not negotiate with anomalies," the second monolith hissed. "You are a mistake in the writing. A character who refused to follow the plot."
"Then why did you give me a choice?" Caelum countered, pointing his Scythe at the hidden panels behind the monoliths. "You create walls of rejection to drain our spirits, but you keep our names there. Why? Because you know that without the 'Glitches', this world has no soul. A story where everything goes perfectly is a story that nobody reads."
Suddenly, Kira and Elara stepped up by his side. Behind them, the golden light of the Vindicated Gate flared, reflecting the names of thousands of forgotten heroes.
[SYSTEM_CONFLATION: LOGIC_LOOP_DETECTED]
[CORE_QUERY: WHAT_IS_THE_GOAL_OF_THE_STORY?]
"The goal," Caelum roared, his hand reaching out to touch the floating core of the Prime Root, "is to let the characters write their own ending!"
His fingers broke through the digital barrier. A massive surge of gold and silver data flooded the system. He wasn't deleting the Core; he was injecting his own code—the Architect's Code—into the very foundation of WebNovel's reality.