Echidna Rezero Novels & Stories

Kael is dying in the master suite, his heart failing because he chose a savior who is nothing but a parasite. K-01 CAPACITY: 1.0% The stone beneath my feet begins to hum with a lethal, high-frequency scream. The sky of Rebirth City, visible through the gaps in the ceiling, starts to pixelate, turning from a false blue to a cold, digital black. My vision flashes white. A new alert overrides the first, pulsing in the center of my sight. PRIMARY ANOMALY DETECTED. INITIATING PROTOCOL ZERO. TOTAL SECTOR FORMAT IN 60 SECONDS.

He leaned against the polished, white-marble island, swiping his hand through the air to interact with the holographic display projected from the countertop. Glowing digital numbers hovered in the warm morning air. Sixteen million credits. It was a sum of money that broke the boundaries of basic comprehension for someone born in the Rust Belt. It wasn't just survival money. It was absolute, undeniable freedom. It was the kind of wealth that allowed a man to buy an entire residential block, hire a private security firm, and never look over his shoulder again. Ren closed out the banking application and opened the Aegis Online global leaderboards. [RANK 1: SQUAD ZERO - WRAITH, TANK, JINX.]

It wasn't a symbol of a closed system. "What's that?" Meilin asked. Leo looked at the circle, then at the fire, then at the horizon where the first real lights of a rebuilding city were beginning to twinkle. "It's a 'Zero'," Leo said with a faint, witty smile. "But I think... I think I'm going to turn it into a 'One'." He drew a single line through the circle. The story of the Project Renaissance had ended. The story of Humanity 2.0 had just begun.

Her voice cracked. Yeah, she wanted that bribed healer to clean this up—but Martha was gone. And the other crib? Still. Too still. No crying. No movement. "James..." she leaned in, trying to whisper, probably begging him to grab the real pup before it was too late— But her words got crushed under the sound of heavy boots. The crowd shifted. Wolves parted. Five robed elders strode in, each marked with a unique crest. The silver-haired one with the full moon emblem gave me a nod.

In my previous life, she was the one who marched right into the prison to save me, and yet we both died in a sea of fire that engulfed the place. "Rachel…" I said her name with my cracked voice. The moment I found out that she, like me, was reborn, I could no longer hold back my tears. She gently wiped my tears away. I was like the most valuable treasure to her. "It's alright, Shawn. I'll keep you safe." She turned to the medical staff. "Tend to Mr. Pearson's wounds immediately!" The medical staff huddled around me immediately and checked my wounds. When she noticed the whip marks on my back, the warmth in her eyes was replaced by freezing fury. "Who did this?"

I stared into Zack's eyes, making sure he heard every word. "You lost me once?" His tears rolled down his cheeks and into the palm of my hand. "Yes, I lost you once. I saw your car explode in the fire, but by the time I got there, it was already too late… After you died, I begged the Moon Goddess. I wanted to trade my life just to have another chance for you." I looked at Zack in shock. "So you were reborn too?"

His fingers twitched slightly at his sides, the only betrayal of the storm building within him. “Subject: Deceased. Adrium: Not detected.” The lead drone emitted a short, shrill beep, and the others responded with a synchronized retreat, lifting upward like vultures denied a feast. In seconds, they were gone, vanishing into the smog above the ruins. Tunde exhaled slowly. His eyes flicked to the crate. The shard glowed faintly in the shadows like a heart still beating.

REBORNED EPISODE Nine Deirdre POV Splash! I splashed some water on the so called crypto and he gasped. He slowly raised his head up and struggled against the ropes that are around him while sitting on a chair. He squint his eyes at the tiny bulb hanging above his head. “Somebody, help! Is someone here?! Where are I?!” He finally had the strength to open his mouth after trembling like someone being drenched at the club. He is probably like that because a gun wasn’t placed against his thigh.

Zen made many batches of Rainbow Eggs. He gave two to Oritha and two to Sasha, who would deliver them to the two other party members. Akiko was busy stalling the basilisk, but she had terrible news to share. Tracer was now petrified, and while he was still ‘alive’ in the guild, the teen was now a rock. Just a little smash, and he would die.

For it only looked at Mane with gratitude and with a bit of curiosity. “What an interesting fellow,” Mane was astonished by what had just occurred. He used Devour to suck out the Edict from the earth around them and transferred it to the Crystal Monkey, hoping that it would aid in its recoveries. After all, it was a Pseudo Legendary Class Magical Beast. A beast of that level was an elemental beast, so Mane reckoned that as long as it had earth elemental Edict, it would be able to recover. However even he didn’t expect it to recover that quickly, or to achieve a breakthrough! Obviously the quick recovery was as a result of the surprising breakthrough, but Mane was not expecting either.