Backrooms Core Novels & Stories

If he weren't holding onto this guy, this scoundrel definitely wouldn't have warned him. Then, Victor looked into the core chamber. Inside the core chamber, it was pitch black, at least from Peter's perspective. Victor's five senses had been enhanced. Although he couldn't see that far, he could see clearly within 100 meters. Victor didn't see any core modules, but he did see several skeletal remains. They were human skeletons, completely devoid of flesh. It hadn't been that long since the apocalypse started. Even if these people had entered the chamber immediately after the Behemoth's arrival, their flesh wouldn't have rotted away this quickly.

It tried to retreat upward, whirring its crown of thorns, but both my hands shot forward like foundry tongs, seizing its condensed‑light shoulders in an unyielding grip that prevented it from ascending an inch. "Return to your ice tomb!" I roared, sinking my claws into its chest. I groped inside its translucent torso until my fingers found the Astral Core: a liquid‑crystal prism pumping the crimson torrent down from the satellite. I squeezed with all the destructive power of my new terrestrial nature.

Sarah wake up next morning feeling sore all over body, flashback of what happened yesternight came into her head and a warmed smile left her mouth. She looked around and her eyes welcome the familiar room she knew since she was young. It hasn't change since she left. She walked lazily out of her to the bathroom and notice some little things change in there, like her toothbrush was replace with another one and all her bath bomb was nowhere to seen. She signed; well, she didn't expect it to be the same as she left it months ago.

Katerina looked at her for a long moment. Then she pocketed the detonator. "The north sacristy exit is forty meters from the core room," she said. "I'll take the boy." "I'll take the boy," Xander said immediately. Katerina didn't argue. "Then let's be fast." The core room was beneath the vestry, accessed through a trapdoor that Katerina opened with the ease of someone who had used it before. Stone stairs, narrow, leading down to a space that was smaller than Elena had pictured — low ceiling, bare walls, and at the center a structure that looked less like advanced technology and more like something organic. Dull metal housing, yes, but threaded through with materials she didn't have names for

“It’s here.” The darkness seemed to grow thicker, wrapping around them like a suffocating blanket. Then, they reached a massive chamber, its ceiling towering above them, lost in shadows. In the center of the room, resting on a stone pedestal, was the Core. It pulsed with an unnatural light, its surface shifting and swirling like liquid shadows. “That’s it,” Lucas said, his voice low and full of awe. He couldn’t take his eyes off the object, feeling the weight of its power in the air around them. It was both beautiful and terrifying, a beacon of the destruction it could unleash.

The golden hum returned, faint but unmistakable — that deep, resonant vibration that seemed to come from beneath the skin of reality itself. Adrian backed away, shaking his head. “No. I chose real. I chose you.” “And that’s exactly why it’s happening,” Maya said softly. He stared at her, not understanding. She looked down at her hands, the IV lines trembling slightly. “Every time you go back, Adrian, the Core doesn’t reset completely. It learns. It copies us — our emotions, our choices. The more you chase me through the loops, the more it becomes us.” His throat went dry. “You’re saying the Core is—”

Everyone rose. Even Ezra. And as they headed for the ship, Ophelia paused beside Carl. “If I lose control,” she said softly, “don’t try to save me.” Carl’s jaw tightened. “I’m not losing you again.” But deep inside… They both knew what was coming. The Core wasn’t a building. It was a wound. A spiraling, subterranean network of bio-mechanical veins, pulsing with psychic radiation. It was the place the Circle had used to create — and erase — lives.

At the end of the darkened hallway, the stone walls began to crack, revealing a vast chamber filled with thousands of glass cylinders containing human fetuses, all connected directly to the Earth’s central network. A sickening realization struck Bima, they weren't underground. They were inside the very belly of Core Prime. And right in the center of the chamber, a giant screen ignited, displaying a countdown that had just hit zero.

A soft female voice said flirtatiously, "The plan for Tommy's organ transplant fell through. You need to come up with another plan…" "We'll have to wait until things settle down first. I'll take care of it, so you don't have to worry. Tommy's my son, after all…" The female voice let out a soft giggle. Then, there were more of those lewd, obscene noises coming from the room… The veins on Elias' face bulged. He kicked the bedroom door open forcefully. Gabriel and Larissa were naked, and they had their bodies pressed against each other… The two of them were shocked when they saw us entering the room. They hurriedly pulled on something to cover their bodies.

The obsidian doors hissed open, retreating into the walls like a dying breath. Inside, the Server Core was a forest of black pillars, each one glowing with the blue light of the pack's collective memory. The temperature dropped further, hitting the freezing point. My breath came out in silver plumes. I sprinted toward the central terminal, my fingers hovering over the haptic interface.