Annihilation Novels & Stories

"Victor, what the f**k are these things?" "Nulls," Silas’s voice echoed from the treeline, a hollow, grinding sound that seemed to come from the earth itself. He stood motionless, the darkness pooling at his feet like spilled ink. "They are the absence of life, Victor. You cannot kill what does not exist in your light. Your 'New Order' is built on a sun that is about to go out."

"The 'Total-Silence' isn't eating us, Elen. It’s 'Simplifying' us. It’s taking our 'Complexity' and turning it into 'Zero-State.' If the 'Infinite-Cycle' stops spinning, the 'Shell' will shatter like ice." The Union faced its "Final-Extinction-Event." They couldn't fight the Silence with "Iron-Bites" or "Mass-Drivers," because those weapons required "Trajectory" and "Impact"—concepts that the Silence was "Deleting" from the local physics. To survive, the Union had to find a way to generate "Internal-Heat" that didn't depend on the "Outside-Vacuum." They had to become a "Closed-System-of-Infinite-vibration

At least I was saved. Voices overlapped, full of shouting and arguments. Somewhere nearby, a siren wailed. As my consciousness faded, the last thing I heard was her desperate, breaking voice. "Alexander, you're not allowed to die! I love you! Do you hear me? I love you!" Love? Too late.

All twelve nodes were neutralized. Click. A crisp crack echoed through the chamber. The raging dark purple light froze abruptly. Like a strangled creature, all the rampant energy retreated back into the array plate. Crack! The seemingly indestructible black stone array plate let out a mournful groan and split into two halves from the center. Rhoderick’s will projection let out a roar of rage and despair. It twisted in the air for a moment before dissipating completely. The Annihilation Array was destroyed. The hundred thousand lives in Blackrock City were saved.

ANOMALY DETECTED: UNAUTHORIZED ENTROPY COLLAPSE. DIRECTIVE: SURRENDER THE GENESIS SEED FOR RECLAMATION. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN STERILIZATION OF THE BIOME. TIME REMAINING: 72 HOURS. The silence in the war room is absolute. It is the silence of a tomb. Seventy-two hours. Three days. Sterilization of the biome, Kade projects, his mental voice a low, lethal rumble in my mind. They’re going to wipe out all life on Earth.

"The core corruption isn't a malfunction. It is the natural culmination of a cycle. Humanity has bled this planet dry. The Null Protocol is the only logical cure." "A cure that buries two continents under an ash sea isn't logic, Kaelen. It's genocide," Anna replied. Her voice was cool, steady, and entirely devoid of fear as she stepped forward. She did not stop at the edge of the lift platform; she walked deliberately into the open, her gloved fingers flickering into life as her golden cipher arrays flared around her forearms like bands of spun sunlight.

Once everything was in order, I gathered every gift Jasper had ever given me and burned them all. Under cover of darkness, I took my son in my arms and boarded the next flight out of the country. The following day, the banquet hall was full of guests who were here for the celebration, but there was no sign of me anywhere. Jasper called my phone over and over again, but every call went straight to voicemail. Panic crept in. Something felt very wrong. He raced home but found nothing on the nightstand but a single note. 'The Gamma homeworld has summoned me back to my planet. I'm taking the kid and ditching the dad. Don't miss me. Don't wait up.'

Executing immediately. The instant that announcement ended, more than a hundred glaring red lights flared at the same time in every corner of the Mistlands. They were pillars of erasure, sent down by the system. There was no chance to resist. Thousands of players and their vehicles were instantly broken down into their most basic atoms in the red light, wiped from this world completely. Inside the colosseum, seeing that the number of remaining teams had plummeted by nearly two thousand in a single day, the Free Alliance members broke into cruel smiles.

Vance looked at his father in confusion. “Four??” He asked. His father chalked yes four. You are destroying four people, Purple, yours’s Astrid and her future mate. Think about it; If someday Astrid found her mate, what will she do? You know what you will have. She will go through a very worst heartbreak fore then yours, just like what purple must be going through. A human mate is unnatural, but the human is weak; they can die of heartbreak, but as she is an alpha’s mate, she is strong. But Astrid is an omega. What will happen to her? Think about your action’s Vance.” His father said.

Seeing that the crowd was frightened, Caspian acted as if nothing had happened. The cultivator next to him couldn't help explaining, "Junior Brother Caspian, the Great Annihilation Heaven is a space created by the explosion of countless universes in ancient times. There are many unknown existences inside." "An unknown existence?" Caspian asked.