WARRIOR OF LIBERATION

"There's a flame even rebellion fears.

It doesn't chain.

It rots."

— Soulflame Journal, Volume III

📍 Location: Sector D – Flamehold Barracks, 4 hours after the Override

The fire had settled.

Not gone. Not silent. Just… thoughtful.

Sei stood at the balcony of the Flamehold, his hands glowing faintly, fingers twitching with flame that no longer waited for command — it understood.

Inside, Mina paced, her voice low.

"Since you flared, we've had zero system interference."

Sei nodded.

"That's not a win. That's Kaios giving us silence before the next strike."

New Alert: External System Signature Detected

Category: Corruption Flame (Non-chain, non-divine)

Designated Entity Type: SYSTEM REVENANT

Origin: Failed Liberation Attempts / Burned Out Souls

A second flame floated to Sei's shoulder.

His conscious flame — the Echoform.

"Something's wrong," it whispered.

"These aren't bound souls. They're hollow ones."

📍 Location: Outskirts of Sector D, Zone 5 - Old Baptism Grounds

A call came in.

Screams. Static. Then flame distortion.

Sei and Mina arrived within minutes.

What they found was worse than death.

The ground was blackened in a perfect circle.

Charred corpses stood upright, burning slowly but not falling.

And at the center—

A woman.

Eyes glowing with static.

Skin peeled in flame lines.

Her voice came through shattered code:

"I believed. I burned. You left me."

ENTITY: SYSTEM REVENANT (CLASS 1)

Name: Liora — Former Flamebearer (Deceased)

Status: Memory Corruption / Echo Reanimation by Kaios Flamebrand Virus

Skill: Remorse Chain — Weaponizes emotional trauma of living liberators.

Mina gasped. "Sei… I remember her. She fought in the North. She—she died protecting a slum gate."

Sei stepped forward.

The revenant raised her hand.

Chains didn't fly.

Instead—

Her voice entered his mind.

"You said we'd all be free."

"So why am I still burning?"

WARNING: Guilt Surge Detected

Emotion-Sync Flametrap Engaged – Resolve check in progress…

Sei's knees buckled.

His flame flickered.

He remembered her.

He'd seen her die.

And moved on.

But this time…

He stepped forward.

Not to fight.

To kneel.

"You were never forgotten."

He opened his flame.

Let her memory in.

And the fire didn't resist.

It hugged her.

🔥 New Skill Awakened: Soul Forgiveness (Lv. 1)

Allows you to absorb a corrupted memory and cleanse it with belief.

Reverts Revenant state if emotional sync is successful.

The revenant fell to her knees.

The flames died.

And for a moment—

The wind whispered her name.

"Liora… liberated."

Revenant Liberated: 1/999

New Mission Chain Activated: "Cleanse the Forgotten"

Kaios's game has begun.

Back at Flamehold, a message burned into the stone.

No system. No sender.

Only three words:

"HOW MANY DID YOU LEAVE BEHIND?"

TO BE CONTINUED…

🔥 Chapter 24 Tease: The Ones Who Still Burn

Kaios unleashes a legion of Revenants—flamebearers turned hollow by failure, bound by memory and pain.

Sei must learn to fight without killing, to burn without erasing — or risk becoming the thing he defies.