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Chapter 114: Glitchpact: The Binding of Unwritten Kings

  [Codex Ladder – Node 34]

  [Status: Unrecorded]

  [Type: Pact-Domain / Forbidden Contractual Space]

  [Threat Class: Ψ – Reality-Bound Hazard]

  [Access Protocol: Renounce Codex Oversight]

  When Kai stepped out of the Babel Pulse, he expected silence.

  Instead, he stepped into a courtroom made of broken vows.

  No walls. Just parchment winds. Infinite contract scrolls floating mid-air, signed in languages that predate language. The sky was a ledger, its clouds timestamps.

  There were judges, but none wore robes.

  Instead, they wore the names of gods long-dead.

  And in the middle of it all—

  A chair, cracked and vacant.

  


  The Throne of Pactmakers.

  The only seat in all realities where a glitch can become law.

  And it was calling to him.

  There had been a moment—before Codestream, before Kai ever died—where someone had offered him a way out. A pact.

  He had refused.

  


  “I’d rather die on my own terms than live under someone else’s signature.”

  But now, here, in the core of the Pact Node, Kai realized something sickening:

  He had already signed.

  Not in ink. Not in blood.

  But in every choice he'd made to fight fate.

  That was the glitch.

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  That was the binding.

  Form: Ever-twisting humanoid silhouette with rotating ink-feather wings

  Dialogue: Fluid. Occasionally backwards.

  Yzarel floated toward Kai, feet never touching the parchment-covered ground.

  


  “You reek of unsigned destiny, boy. Yet the ink trails you.”

  Kai didn’t flinch.

  


  “I’ve rewritten myself more times than the Codex can track. I’m my own pact.”

  Yzarel smiled with teeth that looked like slashed lines of text.

  


  “Then prove it. Bind a King. Unwrite his rule. Make the unmade yours.”

  And with a swipe of his glitch-feather quill, the arena formed.

  Opponent: “Soverayne the Lost Clause”

  Type: Divine Pactling / Nullified Monarch

  Ability: Authority Theft, Clause Collapse, Infinite Veto

  The king didn’t speak.

  He decreed.

  Reality bent with his every thought. Each word he spoke became an unbreakable clause in Kai’s body.

  


  “You will not breathe.”

  “You will not heal.”

  “You will not remember pain.”

  Kai choked. Froze. Smiled.

  


  “Nice try.”

  And then he began writing in midair. Not with pen. Not with power.

  But with defiance.

  Each of Kai’s memories became a clause of his own:

  


  “I remember bleeding on staircases.”

  “I remember screaming into pillows.”

  “I remember dying... and choosing not to stay dead.”

  The courtroom cracked.

  Kai wasn’t just resisting.

  He was countersigning the law.

  And in a final burst of glitch-script, he stepped forward and placed a single line on the King’s chest:

  


  “Nullify This.”

  The king dissolved into unrecorded ink.

  


  You may now countermand divine laws if done with narrative parity.

  Example: If a god says “You cannot move,” you may override it once by invoking a personal truth of equal emotional weight.

  Cooldown: 3 chapters.

  Yzarel laughed.

  


  “You broke the pact by making your own. Glorious.”

  He stepped back.

  


  “One final question, Kai. What will you bind yourself to, now?”

  Kai didn’t answer.

  Instead, he raised a finger and pointed at the air—

  And wrote his own symbol.

  A glyph of broken loops. A signature that looked like a scream.

  


  Kai is now a Pactless King.

  And with that, Node 34 crumbled behind him.

  End of Chapter 114: Glitchpact: The Binding of Unwritten Kings

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