chapter 1

📖 "FROM ZERO TO GOD: LEVELS UP"

CHAPTER 1: The Dead Don’t Kneel

Location: The Pit of Null

Depth: Unknown

Temperature: Freezing

Status: All light lost after descent past 5,000 meters

Lifeforms: Supposedly none

Reality: Already broken

Blood caked his face. Cracked bones pulsed with agony. Flesh hung from his arms like torn parchment. Yet Jin Ezra crawled forward, inch by inch, across jagged obsidian—his breath ragged, hollow, broken.

He should have died days ago. But something within him refused.

“Get up.”

“You’re not allowed to die. Not here.”

It was not a voice from outside.

It was his own voice — one that sounded older, colder, more... awake.

His fingers brushed against a faint glow.

At first, he thought it was a hallucination — hunger playing tricks again. But when he looked closer, he saw it — a shard the size of a heart, pulsing with twin lights: one blacker than the void… the other, blindingly white.

As if night and day fought within it.

He reached for it.

And in that moment, reality screamed.

⚠️ [SYSTEM BREACH: CLASSIFICATION — "ECLIPSE HOST"]

⚠️ [ERROR: EXISTENCE BELOW ZERO. REWRITING CORE RULESET.]

[WELCOME, JIN EZRA.]

[YOU HAVE NO CLASS. NO LEVEL. NO LIMIT.]

[YOU ARE THE FIRST TO BREAK THE WORLD.]

Then came the pain.

Not the pain of wounds, but of evolution.

His body cracked open, then sealed.

His vision exploded into colors no human had ever seen.

He could hear the world breathe — the grinding of time, the decay of matter, the hunger of stars.

[ECLIPSE CORE BOND COMPLETE.]

Ability Unlocked: [Devour]

Ability Unlocked: [Shadowbind]

Ability Unlocked: [Rule Breaker]

PASSIVE UNLOCKED: Immune to Death Below Level 1000.

Jin’s eyes snapped open.

They were no longer human. One eye glowed silver. The other, a swirling abyss.

And in the distance, something stirred.

A beast.

It had watched him for days. Waited for him to bleed out.

Now… it ran.

But it was too late.

“Stop,” Jin whispered.

Reality obeyed.

Time froze.

The beast — a serpent made of corrupted mana and bone — was locked mid-slither.

Jin stood.

He raised his trembling hand. Shadows coiled around his fingers.

“You watched me suffer… starved me… waited like a coward.”

The shadows struck.

The beast didn’t scream. It had no time.

Its body disintegrated.

Its soul devoured.

Its essence claimed.

[LEVEL UP +1,000]

[You have reached Level 1000 — Transcendence Threshold Breached]

[Skill Tree Activated: Eclipse Path]

[Relic Forged: Sovereign’s Mark]

[New Title Earned: The One Who Levels Without Limit]

The ground beneath him cracked.

The air trembled.

Far above, the surface — and the gods watching from their divine tower — felt it.

The world had shifted.

Back in the Astral Throne, a silver-robed archangel dropped her scepter.

“Impossible. The Pit… has awakened something.”

A god with eyes of burning light whispered, “Find the source. Destroy it before it levels again.”

But it was too late.

Jin Ezra had already begun to walk the path...

From Zero to God.

journey that just Started.

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