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Chapter 456 - The Borrowed Power of the Anomaly

After creating the Genesis Archive and stabilizing the nearly infinite stories, Kael Veyris began studying something strange inside the deeper layers of narrative reality.

While exploring the Archive, he discovered a sealed anomaly file drifting between stories.

It did not belong to any universe.

It did not belong to any author.

It was labeled:

SCP-2787

Even Kael paused.

Because this anomaly was not a normal character.

It was something that existed between narrative levels, constantly evolving as stories tried to define it.Kael opened the file.

Instantly, the Archive trembled.

Inside the record was a being described as something that rewrites its own narrative state when observed.

The more a story tries to define it…

The more it escapes definition.

Wukong leaned over Kael's shoulder.

You probably shouldn't touch that.

said Sun Wukong.

Kael smiled slightly.

Too late.Ability: Anomalous Narrative Drift

This power worked in a terrifying way.

If someone tried to define Kael's limits…

Those limits would automatically change.

If someone tried to trap him in a story…

The story would shift until he was outside it.

If someone attempted to erase him…

The narrative would rewrite itself so that Kael had never been affected.

Even the Archive reacted strangely.

Entire stories began adjusting themselves around Kael's presence.

One Narrative God whispered in fear.

He is becoming… undefined. But the power had another effect.

Kael could now see something he never noticed before.

Every story had pressure points.

Places where reality could break.

Places where narratives could collapse.

And somewhere far beyond the Archive…

There were other anomalies like SCP-2787.

Entities that did not follow story rules.

Entities that could exist outside authors, readers, and narrative structure.

Wukong scratched his head.

So basically…

You found the weirdest beings in existence and took some of their power.

Kael nodded calmly.

Yes. But the moment Kael gained that anomaly power…

Something noticed.

Deep in the layers above fiction, another presence awakened.

Something that hunted anomalies.

Something that corrected narrative errors.

Something that considered SCP-2787 and beings like it to be cosmic mistakes.

And now that Kael had absorbed part of that anomaly…

It had marked him.

The Infinite Emperors felt the disturbance immediately.

One of them spoke with concern.

The Narrative Regulators are waking up.

They erase anything that breaks the rules of fiction.

Wukong grinned.

Well.

That sounds like a good fight.

Kael looked toward the infinite layers of stories.

His new anomaly power flickered across the Archive.

For the first time…

Even the structure of fiction itself had begun adapting to him.

And the Emperor of Fiction quietly said:

Let them come.

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