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13: The fusion 3
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2026-10-08 08:04:17Vivi’s scream tore through the bunker as she clawed at her chest, desperately trying to pull out whatever was causing the unbearable agony.
But there was nothing to grab. The crystals continued fusing with her one after another, their golden light pouring into her body. Her veins glowed beneath her skin, her heart pounded so violently that she thought it might burst. She tried to crawl away, but her limbs refused to obey her. “WHY?!” Tears streamed down her face. “WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!” The final few crystals circled her head and for one brief moment, everything stopped, even the light did and the terrible pain seemed to recede slightly. Vivi lay on the floor, gasping desperately for air. Suddenly, the remaining crystals rushed toward her at once and her body seized. A blinding flash engulfed the room. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” The force of the impact lifted her off the floor and hurled her backward. Her body slammed into the concrete wall with a sickening thud before dropping heavily onto the ground. The back of her head struck the floor. For several seconds, her fingers twitched against the concrete and her mouth opened, but no sound came. The golden light beneath her skin flickered little by little until it vanished. By then all the crystals were gone. Vivi lay motionless beside the wall, her hair scattered across the concrete, her breathing shallow and uneven. Blood trickled from a small wound near her temple. She didn’t move, and she didn’t speak. 6:30 PM. Vivi slowly opened her eyes and for a moment, she couldn’t remember where she was. Her vision was blurry, and a dull ache throbbed at the back of her head. She blinked several times, trying to make sense of the concrete ceiling above her. Then the memories came rushing back. The glowing crystals, the unbearable pain and the sensation of something tearing through her body. She immediately tried to sit up. “Ah!” She cried out as pain shot through her back, forcing her to stop. She gritted her teeth and slowly pushed herself upright, leaning against the wall. “What happened to me?” Her voice sounded hoarse. Then she looked down at her hands seeing no wounds on her chest, and no trace of the crystals that had entered her body. But she could feel something had changed. Her entire body felt strangely different, as though every nerve had been awakened. She could hear the faint hum of the ventilation system with startling clarity. Even the tiny movements of insects somewhere behind the concrete walls seemed unnaturally distinct. Vivi stared at her hands, her breathing gradually settling. “Did I… absorb all of them?” She remembered what happened to the crystals in her past life. People who possessed them had gained abilities, their bodies transforming as the crystals fused with them. But she had never heard of anyone experiencing anything as painful as what she had just endured. Then again, nobody had ever absorbed thirty golden crystals at once. She swallowed at the thought. “Please tell me I didn’t just die again.” A faint electronic chime sounded. 【 Ding! 】 Vivi froze and slowly raised her head. A translucent blue screen had appeared in front of her, hovering the air, still, its edges glowing with a soft light. She stared at it and rubbed her eyes, wondering if her sight was starting to have problems. The screen remained. “What…?” Words began appearing across its surface. ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ [UNKNOWN SYSTEM] ┃ ┃ [SYSTEM INITIALIZATION COMPLETE] ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ * Host successfully identified. ┃ ┃ * Host: Vanessa Viola Shepard (Vivi) ┃ ┃ * Status: Awakening ┃ ┃ * System Synchronization: Complete ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ Welcome to the new world, Host. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ Vivi stared at the screen with narrowed, confused eyes. She slowly reached out and tried to touch it but her fingers passed through the glowing interface. She snatched her hand back, stunned. “What the hell is this?!” Another chime sounded. 【 Ding! 】 More words appeared. ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ * Thirty Golden Crystals successfully ┃ ┃ absorbed. ┃ ┃ * Unprecedented energy fluctuation ┃ ┃ detected. ┃ ┃ * Special conditions met. ┃ ┃ * The System has awakened. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ Vivi’s mouth fell open as she read every message and for several seconds, she could only stare. Then a shaky laugh escaped her lips. “No way…” She covered her mouth, her eyes widening as the implications began to sink in. She had absorbed thirty golden crystals and now she had a system. A SYSTEM! In her past life, she had struggled to survive with ordinary white crystals, while the lucky ones who obtained golden crystals rose to the highest ranks of humanity. But this time, she had thirty golden crystals fused into her body, and some mysterious system had awakened alongside them. She didn’t know what it could do, but for the first time since the apocalypse began, she felt something other than fear. Hope. A dangerous, exhilarating hope that made her heart race. “Ha…” She lowered her head, laughing quietly. Then her expression gradually changed, and her eyes sharpened. Ward and Susan’s faces flashed through her mind, followed by the memories of her past death. She remembered the hunger, the humiliation, the helplessness of watching others grow stronger while she remained weak. And she remembered how they had left her to die. Vivi slowly clenched her fists and scoffed. “Not this time.” Her voice was quiet, but every word carried a cold determination. “I don’t care what this world becomes. I don’t care what monsters come crawling out of those gates or how powerful the Hunters become.” She lifted her head, staring directly at the floating interface. “I will become strong enough that nobody can ever treat me like that again.” Another notification from the system appeared. ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ * Host’s awakening is incomplete. ┃ ┃ * Would you like to view your initial ┃ ┃ status? ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ Vivi’s eyes lit up. She had no idea what awaited her beyond the bunker doors. She didn’t know how many people had died during the earthquake, how many spatial gates had appeared, or how the rest of humanity would react to the crystals fusing with their bodies. She only knew that the world had changed and she had been given a second chance to change with it. Vivi wiped the blood from her temple and slowly rose to her feet, ignoring the lingering ache in her body. Then she smiled. “Show me everything.” ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ [Opening Host Status…] ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
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