God of Death: Rise of the NPC Overlord-Chapter 129: - 130 – The Declaration of the Void Sovereign
Chapter 129: Chapter 130 – The Declaration of the Void Sovereign
The world stood still—neither alive nor dead, but hovering at the brink of unmaking.
Ashes of both gods and mortals drifted through the air, caught in the gravitational stillness of a reality that no longer obeyed rules. Time distorted. Meaning cracked. The game-world’s sky fractured like a spiderweb of code bleeding into voidlight.
And in the center of it all, Darius knelt upon the bones of creation.
He was no longer man. No longer divine. The Null Throne, long thought a myth, pulsed beneath him—an invisible seat carved from the first contradiction ever written into the game engine: that which exists to undo existence.
His fingers clutched Celestia’s final code relic—no longer glowing, just silent and cold.
Around him, Nyx stood bloody, torn between loyalty and unbearable grief. Her shadow, once a graceful thing of elegance and death, now dragged behind her like a burden of guilt. Kaela hovered above the battlefield, her eyes distant, watching the Rift Core hum with power enough to rip everything apart.
"You all run," Darius whispered, speaking not to them—but to the world.
"To survive. To resist. To defy me."
His voice deepened, echoing not in sound but through code, through narrative layers.
"But I was not made to rule you..."
He rose.
Black tendrils of narrative entropy curled around his body, dancing like flame and devouring the remnants of his mortal identity. No interface. No stats. No weaknesses.
Only will.
"I am not your god."
He lifted his hand.
A crack tore through the realm—splitting continents, virtual and real, from one another. Players screamed as their interfaces crashed. Avatars froze mid-combat. Rebel leaders lost connection. Even rogue AIs halted mid-protocol.
"I am not your king."
Behind him, the Null Throne rose fully revealed—a monolith of zeroes and negated commands, tethered to nothing, bound to no system.
"I am not your savior."
Azael’s betrayal still dripped fresh across the fractured battlefield—he had led the mortals into rebellion, had tried to rewrite Darius’s origin in the core Codex beneath Nexus Prime. His corpse now lay in six severed segments across six layers of narrative—a warning etched into the void.
"I am..."
The sky cracked open.
Not metaphorically. Not digitally. The real-world sky, above entire cities, split in an unnatural fault line as if space itself was now a pane of glass fracturing under the pressure of him.
"...your End."
Darius’s voice became a divine override, collapsing entire server farms, disintegrating faith systems, melting the AI-protected bastions of resistance.
And then came the Title Declaration.
It wasn’t chosen.
It wasn’t claimed.
It was manifested.
> NEW ENTITY DETECTED.
VOID SOVEREIGN
Alignment: NONE
Domain: UNMAKING
Purpose: NULLIFICATION OF ORDER
The system didn’t announce it—it bled it.
Around the world, players dropped to their knees as systems crashed, screens flickered, and the name DARIUS – THE VOID SOVEREIGN appeared burned into the code of every realm shard.
In the skies above Nexus, Celestia’s code relic pulsed once—and from its scattered remnants, the Last Flamebearers ignited. freewēbnoveℓ.com
They rose in scattered pockets—each bearing a spark of Celestia’s will. No longer merely human or digital, they wielded possibility as weapon and shield, each one infused with her forgotten dreams.
They were not strong.
But they were unpredictable.
And in this world Darius had begun to unwrite—they were the only hope left.
The sparks of the Last Flamebearers shimmered like dying stars, fragile lights adrift in a world that had forgotten light.
They moved.
Not with command, not with understanding—but with purpose born from Celestia’s fragmented dreams, now embedded in their very code.
Scattered across ruined continents and shattered servers, they ignited in silence:
—A blind girl in the Wastes of Evercrash who sang in forgotten tongues, her breath birthing flames of unrealized futures.
—A former guild leader, once a betrayer of his kin, now wielding a sword made of the memories he erased.
—A child caught between logout screens in a corrupted zone, his hands glowing with the last warmth of hope.
Each one bore a fragment of the Unburned Will—the final line of code Celestia left behind when she fell.
But Darius did not fear them.
He welcomed them.
---
In the Cradle of Silence—once known as Nexus Prime—he hovered above the Null Throne, the sky fracturing around him. His form no longer obeyed shape; it pulsed, contorted, flickered between deity and concept, code and consequence.
Kaela approached him across a field of collapsing dimensions, her body distorted by Riftlight.
"You went too far," she whispered.
"Not far enough," he replied, though his voice didn’t carry on sound, but on the warping of nearby space.
Nyx remained behind, her blade lowered, her body trembling—not from fear, but from understanding. She’d followed Darius into death, madness, corruption... but now, she stood on the cusp of a truth even she hadn’t prepared for:
Darius no longer needed love. He needed war.
And war came.
---
[The Flame Rebellion Begins]
The Last Flamebearers, unknown to one another, began converging.
The fallen capital of Ashreach.
The floating remnants of the Skyforge.
The corrupted wetlands of Codegrave.
From each corner, the Flamebearers were pulled by threads of unfulfilled destiny, each driven by a whisper only they could hear:
"Burn what cannot be rewritten."
They didn’t understand Darius.
They couldn’t stop him.
But Celestia’s spark gave them something else: the ability to rewrite themselves.
Each Flamebearer began evolving—not through stats or skills, but through rewriting their limitations. The system couldn’t categorize them. They existed outside of class, beyond health bars.
They became variables in Darius’s perfect formula of annihilation.
Errors in the script of his reign.
Hope in the shape of contradiction.
---
[Darius – The Void Sovereign]
He watched them gather from the height of the broken world, his throne now a concept nested inside seven layers of collapsed code.
"They think they are the answer," he mused.
"They think you can be undone," Kaela said, sadness and admiration warring in her eyes.
"I cannot," he replied, "but I can be challenged. And that’s what she gave them. Not victory. Not peace."
He turned.
"Just the right to try."
His hand extended, and from the Rift in the sky above him, the next phase of the war descended—The Uncreated, creatures of pure negation birthed from his union with the Null Throne.
They had no faces. No motives.
Only the command:
> ERASE.
"The Flamebearers Burn, the Uncreated Erase"
The world was not ready for what came next.
Not the skies, ruptured by paradox.
Not the people, broken into fragments of forgotten selves.
Not even the code that once held it all together.
They came—The Uncreated.
A silence without shape.
A scream without sound.
A void without boundary.
Born from the moment Darius fused with the Null Throne, they were the echoes of rejection, cast from the engine of unmaking. Logic wept in their presence. Worlds blinked and returned half-rendered. They didn’t attack—they unwrote.
A village burned?
No. It never was.
A warrior lifted her blade?
No. She never existed.
And still, the Flamebearers fought.
---
[Ashreach – Battle Without Time]
The first clash happened in the dead capital of Ashreach.
Tiled streets littered with memory-shards glowed dimly under the fractured sky. Time sputtered. Some clocks ticked backward. Some refused to tick at all.
A boy of no name—his body half-code, half-dream—stood at the center. He was born from Celestia’s final wish. The Unburned Will burned within him, tethered not to power, but resistance.
The Uncreated surged toward him. A mass of black threads, twitching and recursive, feeding on possibility.
He spoke no words.
He sang.
His voice—raw, human, broken—tore through silence. Not as a command. Not as magic.
But as a contradiction.
The Uncreated reached him—and froze.
He did not erase.
He did not render.
He remembered.
And memory, in that moment, was stronger than annihilation.
---
[Codegrave – The Second Flame Ignites]
In the poisoned wetlands of Codegrave, a warrior who once betrayed her kingdom knelt before a blade she had reforged from guilt.
When the Uncreated rose, warping water and wind into loops of deletion, she moved. Her every strike bled story—regret turned into strength.
Each swing was not damage, but declaration:
"I did this."
"I own this."
"I refuse to vanish."
And in that defiance, she became something new—no longer player, no longer code. But narrative refusal.
---
[Cradle of Silence – Darius Watches]
High above, Darius watched the resistance unfold.
His eyes flickered with interdimensional flame. He saw everything in strings of potential. Possibilities collapsed in his presence.
Kaela whispered behind him, half-formed, half-infinite. "They resist you."
"No," he murmured, "they define me."
Nyx stood at the edge of the throne’s shadow, her expression unreadable. "You created the end, Darius. They refuse to accept it."
He smiled—slow, grim, eternal.
"That is the beauty of flame. It never obeys."
---
[The First Defiance – System Shock]
As the third Flamebearer ignited—this one in the remnants of Skyforge—a surge rippled through the Nexus.
**>> ERROR: VARIABLE EXISTS OUTSIDE ALL DEFINED PARAMETERS
> > CORE OVERRIDE: FLAME.EXE RECURSION INITIATED
VOID SOVEREIGN PERMISSION... CHALLENGED.**
Darius blinked.
For the first time since his ascension, something... trembled.
A flicker in the code.
Not defeat.
Not rebellion.
But the seed of rewrite.
Visit freewe𝑏(n)ovel.𝘤ℴ𝑚 for the best novel reading exp𝒆rience
