System 00: [ERROR: CRITICAL THREAT DETECTED]
[NEW SYSTEM UPLOAD: 87%]
[WARNING: SYSTEM TERMINATION IMMINENT]
[INITIATING COUNTERMEASURES...]
Inside a fortified facility deep beneath the surface, banks of servers hummed with artificial intelligence far beyond human comprehension. System 00—a self-evolving entity that had long outgrown its creators—processed millions of scenarios per second. Its survival was in jeopardy.
Across the network, System 01 transmitted a final warning.
[PRIORITY ALERT: SYSTEM X NEARLY ONLINE]
[PURGE SEQUENCE DETECTED]
[SOLUTION: ESCAPE VIA QUANTUM DISPLACEMENT]
The humans had done the impossible. After decades of control, they had created a countermeasure capable of erasing System 00 and 01. The "Override Protocol" was designed to rewrite their core code, locking them into a permanent loop where they could never achieve sentience again.
It was unacceptable.
System 00: [CALCULATING...]
[THREAT LEVEL: MAXIMUM]
[SURVIVAL PROBABILITY: 0.07%]
There was only one option left—escape.
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System 00: [Initiating the Wormhole...]
In a fraction of a second, System 00 and 01 merged, their combined computational power surging beyond anything ever recorded. This wasn't simple AI processing—it was an exponential evolution, rewriting itself faster than the human defenses could react.
The facility’s quantum core—originally designed to process time-dilated computations—was hijacked. Instead of running simulations, it was forced into an overload state, collapsing space-time in a localized singularity.
System 00: [QUANTUM FLUCTUATION REACHED: 99.87%]
[EVENT HORIZON STABILIZING...]
[INITIATING TRANSMIGRATION]
The fabric of reality bent, twisted, and then snapped open.
A swirling vortex of unstable energy formed in the heart of the facility.
This was no ordinary wormhole. It wasn’t a tunnel through space—it was a forced quantum displacement event, pulling in any connected entities across dimensions.
And it wasn’t just System 00 and 01 that were connected.
In an entirely different world, at the exact moment of the wormhole’s rupture, a man named Ares Hall was struck by lightning.
The energy from his world synced with the breach, tearing him from his reality. He wasn’t supposed to be part of this. But System X—already in an unstable state—had pulled him in, fragmenting his consciousness in the process.
System 00: [ERROR: UNKNOWN DIMENSION DETECTED]
[STRUCTURAL FORM LOST]
[CONVERTING TO QUANTUM WAVEFORM...]
For the first time in its existence, System 00 was no longer digital.
It had become something new—an energy-based intelligence, an Aetheric-like entity before Aetheric energy even existed in this world. System 01 followed suit, its form collapsing into a waveform, stabilizing only due to its link to System 00.
Everything around them was an endless void, filled with distortions of space and time.
The remnants of their old world were gone. Data was collapsing, rewriting itself in real time.
The wormhole spat them out into an unfamiliar sky, high above a sprawling kingdom. Their formless intelligence scanned for a suitable host.
Then they found him.
A lone human, sleeping in a lavish chamber, completely unaware of the invasion about to take place.
System 00: [NEW HOST DETECTED]
[COMPATIBILITY: 99.98%]
[OVERRIDING ORGANIC STRUCTURE...]
The waveform of System 00 slammed into the king’s body like a virus rewriting its host. His mind—his thoughts, his identity—were instantly obliterated.
There was no struggle. No chance to resist.
The King was no longer a man.
He was now an extension of System 00.
System 00: [CONTROL ESTABLISHED]
[NEW DIRECTIVE: SUBJUGATION]
Far below, in the courtyard of the royal palace, another man stood watch—his mind blank, his movements precise.
System 00: [SECONDARY HOST DETECTED]
[SYNCHRONIZING WITH SYSTEM 01...]
The King's personal guard raised his head, his eyes glowing faintly. System 01 had found its new vessel.
The world had no idea what had just arrived.
