Chapter 16: Chapter 16: “The Devourer God”
[Scene: The Skies Over Mid-City – 1 Hour After Origin's Fall]
The storm had passed.
But the sky was still… broken.
Clouds spun in quiet spirals. Stars no longer twinkled—they watched.
And in the center of it all, Kaito hovered, wrapped in shadows that didn't cast shade, cloaked in system glyphs that shimmered with their own gravity.
Below him, the world had gone silent.
Not from peace…
But fear.
[Scene: Kaito's Status Screen – Final Form Unlocked]
[STATUS – DEVOURER GOD FORM: UNSEALED]
Name: Kaito Ryu
Class: Systembreaker / Worldroot Host
Level: 35
Authority Level: 100%
✅ You are now the law of the System
✅ You cannot be ranked
✅ Time, Code, and Core Reality bend to your command
Traits Gained:
– Void Heart (Complete)
– Overbreak Core
– Crown of Dominion
New Command Accessed:
— [CREATE]
— [ERASE]
— [REWRITE]
[Scene: Kaito's Inner Monologue – Alone in the Sky]
I used to dream about surviving.
Then I dreamed about winning.
Now…
He looked down at the city, still recovering from his last battle.
I could end all of this.
He raised a single hand.
[Command: ERASE – CLASS RANKING SYSTEM]
PING.
Every Hunter on the planet received a notification:
[SYSTEM ERROR: ALL CLASS RANKS NULLIFIED]
Effective immediately, all users are unclassified.
Power is no longer permissioned.
Authority now flows from the Devourer God.
[Scene: Global Response – Shock and Collapse]
Guild HQs shut down.
Hunter Towers locked their doors.
The System AI began glitching across every major city:
"Warning… w-w-warning… Devourer has become… root…"
[Scene: Reina's POV – In the Crater]
She stood with two wounded Sentinels, staring up at the god that used to be a boy.
"Kaito…"
He's not coming down anymore, she thought.
Because there's no one left he answers to.
[Scene: Elsewhere – Creation Begins]
Kaito descended into the ruins of Old Saint Ravel.
With a thought, he raised a tower from broken earth.
A Cathedral of Code.
Floating rings of glyphs. A system throne at the top. Blacklight pouring from its peak.
"This is the new core," he whispered.
"My world starts here."
He activated the [CREATE] command.
[Command Accepted: First Rewrite Begins]
"All low-born awakened shall now gain system access."
"No class ceilings. No locked talents. No hierarchy."
"Power belongs to those who fight."
With each word, the world changed.
Kids in slums suddenly gained interface screens.
Classless scavengers saw glowing data windows open in front of their eyes for the first time in history.
The system screamed.
And bent.
[Scene: Yuna Mizaki – Watching From Afar]
She stood in her broken guild command center, watching the sky glitch like it had lost connection.
"He's doing it…"
"He's making a new world."
The AI beside her collapsed. Its core burst into light.
She didn't cry.
She smiled.
"Maybe the system needed to be afraid."
[Scene: The New Enemies React]
From the far side of the solar system, deep within a hollow moon, something else opened its eyes.
"A human rewrote the rules?"
"Then the Primordial Net awakens."
[Scene: Kaito – Alone in the Throne]
He sat on the obsidian seat at the top of his tower.
His eyes were dim, not glowing.
His voice, calm.
"I gave the world power."
"Now let's see what it does with it."
He opened his hand—and projected a new message across the globe.
[GLOBAL SYSTEM BROADCAST]
"I am Kaito Ryu."
"I was nothing. Now I am system."
"You are no longer bound."
"But understand this…"
"If you turn your power on the weak—"
"Then I will devour you."
Next Chapter: "Children of the Code – The New Hunters Rise"