SWNOVELXO Chapter 37: Genesis Cleanse
The sky didn't darken.
It ceased.
Clouds vanished. Sunlight erased. Not hidden—deleted. Like someone reached into the code of reality and pressed backspace on the concept of day.
All that remained was the cold hum of logic.
The Purifier hovered midair like a cursor paused over a 'delete all' command.
And it clicked.
> "EXECUTING: GENESIS CLEANSE."
[Target: LOCAL REALITY SECTOR – VJA-ACADEMY 1-A]
[Reason: CORE ANOMALY DETECTED – STATUS: INFECTED]
[Override Codes Verified]
A crack ran through the sky—not a sound, but a concept. Magic fields flickered like dying servers. Runes scrambled. The protective wards around the academy rippled like plastic melting under heat.
Jay stepped forward.
Every footfall was calculated now, 999 times faster than instinct. The world was molasses around him.
In his vision:
> [Threat Level: TERMINAL]
[System Suggests Evacuation]
[Host Response: YAWN]
He raised his hand.
It was still lazy. Loose. Barely effort.
But the screen behind him exploded with cascading code.
> [System Override – Lazy Genius Trigger: Think It, Do It]
[Mind-Sync at 999x Capacity]
[Countermeasure Initiated: Mirror Null Domain]
A pulse rippled out from Jay's palm.
Invisible to the eye, deafening to the system.
The Purifier twitched.
Not much. But enough.
Enough to halt the complete erase protocol.
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Meanwhile: Rei
Inside Rei's mind, corruption bled like ink.
He knelt against the rooftop fence, hands trembling.
> [ERROR: MEMORY THREAD 400-C CORRUPTED]
[WARNING: ENTITY "AETHER" MATCHES FILE 00X-HERO ERA]
[…Origin: LOCKED]
[…Relation: UNKNOWN]
Rei remembered.
But only pieces.
Hands reaching. A sky torn open. A name whispered in code.
Something inside him flinched.
> "Jay…"
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Back to Jay
The silver-robed entity descended slightly, reacting to Jay for the first time.
Its faceless mask tilted 8 degrees.
> "Anomaly Layer: Unregistered. Designation… LAZARUS."
"Not part of System Tree."
"Unexpected Variable."
Jay's eyebrow twitched. "What kind of dumb name is Lazarus?"
The Purifier didn't answer.
It simply raised its hand.
The world folded.
Jay saw time rewind for a frame. The classroom, the rooftop, everything snapped back half a second—and tried to repeat.
Genesis Cleanse was not an attack.
It was a rewrite.
Everything would restart… without them.
Jay exhaled.
"Fine. No more napping."
> [System Lock Removed: Thought-Speed Sync 100%]
[Brain Overclock: 999x – ACTIVE]
[Memory Thread Access: UNSEALED]
The world flickered.
His lazy posture vanished.
In its place—a calm storm.
Jay's body didn't move fast, but space around him did. His gaze locked with the point where the Purifier held the loop.
He reached out—
—and rewrote the rewrite.
For a second, nothing happened.
Then:
> [CONFLICT]
[TWO REALITY THREADS OCCUPY SAME TIMESTAMP]
[STABILITY: FAILING]
Rei gasped from behind.
"Jay, STOP—! You'll trigger—"
Too late.
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At That Exact Moment:
A giant magic glyph collapsed mid-air.
The towers of Vija trembled.
Students screamed.
The faculty's chants shattered like glass in a blender.
And then…
Everything froze.
Except Jay and the Purifier.
Between them:
A ripple.
A heartbeat.
A god's breath.
> "...You're the real infection," Jay whispered.
"You just forgot how to dream."
The Purifier didn't respond.
But something deeper in the code—something ancient—blinked.