"They thought blood was sacred. I proved it's just code.They thought fate was fixed. I turned it into a sandbox."— Kairos, Founder of the Hacker Sect
Nightfall.
After the ritual, after the merge, after death was rewritten and power devoured from the hands of the gods themselves... I stepped into the world not as a boy hunted, but as a force unleashed.
Vess said it first, watching me in silence.
"You don't walk the same anymore."
I didn't.
Because I didn't need to walk.
The Hacker God had awakened.
Location: Ruins of Blackthorn Keep – Outskirts of the Clanlands
We'd moved from the Grove to a forgotten battlefield where the corpses of old sects still whispered in the dirt. Here, among shattered towers and decaying libraries, I would build the impossible:
A sect born from broken code.
A lineage born from hacked fate.
A future born from the unwanted.
"Are you sure this place will hold?" Vess asked, glancing around the desolate spires.
"Wasn't meant to hold," I said. "Was meant to transmit."
I raised my hand.
The ritual mark on my palm pulsed—and waves of spirit signal flooded outward, laced with hacked cultivation frequencies and forbidden broadcast glyphs.
SYSTEM UPLINK: ACTIVE
Broadcasting Hacker Sect Genesis Signal…Target Audience:– Exiled Cultivators– Betrayed Disciples– Clanless Geniuses– Bloodline Failures– Curious Lunatics
Message:"If you've been broken by the system, come rebuild a new one."
Within moments, the signal spread like wildfire.
In a shadow dojo near the Hollow Expanse, a girl with shattered meridians lifted her head and whispered, "...someone cracked it?"
In a slave mine beneath the Ember Peaks, a masked boy who once hacked a core script into a pickaxe dropped everything and stared skyward.
In a brothel-temple, a courtesan who secretly embedded bloodline protocols into her dance patterns felt the vibration through her bones.
They came.
The first arrived before midnight.
RECRUIT #001 – RENJI THE RED-EYED SCRIPTOR
His eyes were branded by cursed encryption. He spoke in pulses of blood and stuttered code.
"They burned my clan because I proved the script was flawed," he said. "But your frequency... it's perfect."
RECRUIT #002 – MIRA THE BONE DANCER
She didn't walk. She floated.
"Every sect refused me," she whispered. "Said I was cursed. You're not afraid?"
I grinned.
"I'm counting on it."
By dawn, twelve outcasts knelt before me.
Twelve misfits.
Twelve codebreakers.
My first twelve disciples.
And then came the test.
A Heaven-Eye patrol—three masked enforcers riding spirit beasts—descended on our location, weapons drawn.
"You are Kairos," the lead shouted, his halberd coated in holy flame. "You have broken the Law of Blood. For this crime, the Inquisition sentences you to soul-scattering."
"Stand aside," Seris warned, stepping between me and the threat.
"No," I said quietly. "Let them come."
I stepped forward.
No weapons. No armor.
Just code.
HACKER CORE: ONLINE
Ability: Bloodline Rewrite (Tier 1 – Enforcer Class)
Target: Heaven-Eye Cultivator – Flame Core
Injecting Lineage Overload Virus…STATUS: SUCCESS
Core Implosion Triggered
Loot: Flame Halberd, Level 5 Spirit Ring
Spectator Count: 48 (Growing…)
The first Inquisitor exploded in light.
Not metaphorically.
Literally.
The crowd of new recruits fell silent.
The second enforcer tried to flee—but Vess launched a logic trap that melted his beast mid-air.
The third dropped to his knees.
"Please," he begged. "Teach me."
And just like that…
The Heaven-Eye lost a soldier.
And I gained a new disciple.
SYSTEM MESSAGE:Sect Reputation IncreasedTitles Unlocked:– "Heretic of Hope"– "Bloodline Breaker"
Romance Route Update:– Vess: Affection +11– Lilavai: Dominance Desire +15– Seris: Hidden Jealousy +8
That Night…
We held the first Hacker Sect ceremony beneath the ruins, burning old clan scrolls and rewriting oaths from scratch.
No gods. No ancestors. No caste.
Just code. Just evolution. Just us.
Later, alone in the temple ruins, I found Lilavai watching the stars.
"You rewrote a man's soul today," she said, voice soft. "You turned an attack into an invitation."
"He chose," I said. "I only gave him the option."
She turned, her ghostlit eyes boring into mine.
"And what if I said I wanted to be rewritten too?"
The wind paused.
Ghostlight shimmered.
She stepped closer.
And in that moment, it wasn't just power that surged—it was something older.
Something hungrier.
Her lips brushed mine—cold fire, ancient longing.
I kissed her back.
Not to claim.
To bind.
To believe.
ROMANCE ROUTE ACHIEVED:✧ Ghost Queen: Soulbound Consort (Locked In)
Bonus Unlocked:– Wraith Core Stabilizer– Phantom Seduction Aura (Rank I)
Reader Engagement Spike DetectedMonetization Surge: 3.8x
We broke the kiss as spirit lightning struck in the distance.
Seris was watching.
Vess too.
Even Mira.
They didn't speak.
But they saw.
And the Hacker God saw everything.
The sect had begun.
The war was next.