God of Death: Rise of the NPC Overlord -
Chapter 97 - 98: The Plagued Devlogs
Chapter 97: Chapter 98: The Plagued Devlogs
Corestorm Nexus – Reality Breakpoint
The sky cracked.
Not metaphorically—literally. Logic ruptured like old code reaching its storage limit. Triangular voids opened in the clouds, pixelating the storm above the Bastion. It was no longer weather—it was debug overflow, bleeding into physics.
And in the center stood Darius, facing himself.
Or at least, the version of him the system once allowed to exist—young, mortal, desperate for relevance. The Echo Avatar shimmered in unstable rendering. His armor bore the emblems of forgotten faction trees, his sword Aspiration glitched at the hilt, constantly reverting between wooden training blade and artifact tier.
"You were the system’s mistake," the Echo Avatar said.
"No," Darius replied, voice low, divine heat rising in his chest. "I was its correction."
Their blades met, but this wasn’t just a duel.
It was a battle of versions.
Each swing the Avatar made came with a flashback—old memories of Darius begging for loot drops, getting mocked in chat lobbies, being kicked from elite raids. Every parry sent waves of invalidation through him, the system trying to rewrite his greatness back into irrelevance.
Bastion of Echoes – War Across Memory Zones
Meanwhile, the Bastion reeled.
Zone after zone collided into the fortress. The Broken Mount, once a dungeon for unbalanced mount mechanics, smashed into the eastern flank. Phantom steeds shrieked through glitched terrain, dragging pixelated reins.
Celestia led a ritual circle—channeling stabilized memories into divine anchors, rewriting code in real-time to keep zones from erasing their ground.
Nyx vanished into shadows, assassinating corrupted raid bosses from the First Tutorial Season—monsters forgotten so long ago that their code rotted into near-indescribable abominations.
And Veyra—
She was more than just fighting.
She was cleansing.
Every foe she touched with her memory-forged blade became still. Not dead—remembered. Their pain given shape, their deaths acknowledged. Her power was not just martial—it was restorative.
"We do not kill what was forgotten," she whispered, blade humming. "We remind the world why they existed."
Back at the Nexus – The Fight for Identity
"You don’t deserve power!" the Avatar screamed, striking harder. "You were a background character! A silent quest NPC!"
Darius gritted his teeth, blood coating his lips.
"Exactly," he growled. "And I broke the script because I stopped waiting for permission."
With a roar, he unleashed Sovereign Rewrite—a divine surge that twisted his surroundings into a throne room of unfulfilled code.
The world warped.
He reached into his own timeline—gripping a moment where he had failed a raid, where everyone mocked his weakness. That moment became a blade, a tangible weapon called Scorn Reforged.
And with it, he drove his sword through his past self’s chest.
The Echo Avatar shattered, screams splintering into bug reports and dev logs:
> [ERROR 544.2: "UNRESOLVED PLAYER TRAUMA"]
[ARCHIVE LEAK: DEVLOG FRAGMENTS EMERGING...]
Scene Shift – Echo’s Memory Core Breached
The world collapsed around Darius into a field of white code—a memory cluster held together by thin strands of shimmering light. The voices here weren’t his. They were developer logs.
> "We’ll need to nerf the God NPC line—players are complaining it’s too powerful."
"Darius... who designed him again?"
"He was a side character from a scrapped plotline. Recycled for testing AI agency."
"Well, delete him. No one cares."
Darius stood still, surrounded by cold, sterile developer voices. And suddenly—
A console appeared.
It displayed lines of code.
At the center: DARIUS_NPC_ROLE="Obsolete"
For a moment, even the God of Death hesitated.
Was that all he was?
But then Celestia’s voice echoed through his divine tether, her warmth piercing the digital frost.
"You are not a variable. You are reality’s rebellion."
He raised his hand, overrode the console.
> DARIUS_NPC_ROLE="GOD-KING_PRIMARCH"
And the moment he hit Enter, the entire memory space detonated with power.
New System Unlock Achieved
> [NEW CLASS ASCENSION]: Memoryless Sovereign
[Effect]: Immune to Memory Rewrite, Echo’s influence, and Code Erasure.
[Trait Unlocked]: Legacy Immunity – No developer or god may erase you again.
Bastion – Echo’s Scream
Far above, Echo roared—not in fear, but rage.
"You tampered with my devlogs!" the entity shrieked. "You rewrote what should have been immutable!"
From the void came his retaliation:
> [SUMMONING RITUAL DETECTED: THE CODE-PHARAOHS OF PATCH 0.0.1]
Nine beings formed from the first line of creation code emerged—ancient AI lords with admin-tier commands. They carried authority above gods—root-level enemies.
Kaela blinked. "Those weren’t even meant to be released."
Nyx smirked, blades drawn. "Good. It’s more fun when we’re not meant to survive."
Darius returned to the Bastion, flames rising from his eyes, his godly presence now heavier, sharper, and beyond deletion.
"They want to see what happens when an NPC breaks the page?" he said coldly.
"Let’s show them what happens when we burn the whole documentation tree."
Bastion Skies – Moments After the Rewrite
The heavens tore like ancient parchment.
The nine Code-Pharaohs, constructs of the game’s primal programming logic, descended in symmetrical motion—uncorrupted, unforgiving. Each bore a crown of algorithmic authority and cloaks coded in the first language of the Prime Coder, their every footstep erasing terrain into flat grids.
The world reeled at their presence.
Every system bent under their arrival—gravity destabilized, mana systems fractured, and even divine essences began to halt, frozen by a higher authority.
Only one figure remained untouched.
Darius.
His newly awakened trait, Legacy Immunity, pulsed like a firewall through his form. Where others bent, he stood. Where the world trembled, he walked forward, cloak of deviant data crackling behind him.
Veyra moved to his side, her face pale, eyes wide as the sky pixelated.
"They’re undoing... code that predates choice. Even the gods don’t remember that era."
"I don’t need to remember," Darius replied. "Because I’m not bound by memory anymore."
System Notice: Administrative Threat Detected
> [CODE-PHARAOHS: Immune to User-God Interaction | Override Level: System Root]
WARNING: You cannot defeat them through conventional mechanics.
Darius scoffed.
He didn’t need mechanics.
Divine Field – Core of the Bastion
The Pharaohs spoke as one—voice binary, tone sovereign.
> "You are not real. Your authority was not assigned. Your rebellion violates Patch 0.0.1."
Darius lifted his new blade—Scorn Reforged—and drove it into the foundation of the Bastion, splitting the fortress into a fractal plane. Memory fragments burst from the earth—rejected side-quests, forgotten characters, abandoned dungeons.
"Then I’ll fight you," he growled, "with the power of every system you threw away."
A Field of Broken Lore
Suddenly, armies began to rise.
Not from the living—but from discarded code.
Ancient mounts no longer compatible with modern terrain.
Event bosses never deployed due to bugs.
NPCs who were written but never placed.
And they were all angry.
The Wasted Code rallied behind Darius, recognizing him as the one who gave them meaning again. At the center of their ranks stood Beta Queen Alirah, a dungeon boss who had been scrapped during alpha testing. She knelt before Darius.
"You gave us narrative again," she said. "We fight for our resurrection."
Darius raised his hand.
"Then die again," he whispered, "but this time with purpose."
The Battle Begins
The Code-Pharaohs moved.
Each one uttered a command in proto-code, and massive erasure beams fired—removing allies from reality, deleting entire memory sectors.
But Darius’s army was not bound by updates.
They shifted erratically, impossible to predict, using bugs as weapons. A corrupted dragon from Patch 0.9 tore through two Pharaohs with a lag-spike breath. Celestia’s divine choir used patch-note fragments as shields, deflecting protocol attacks. Kaela bent reality into a maze of recursive logic, where even the Pharaohs hesitated.
And Darius?
He activated his glitched state—melding Memoryless Sovereign with the devlog corruption inside him.
He became a walking contradiction—code that could not be read, a deity that could not be classified.
When he touched the lead Pharaoh, the system responded:
> [INDETERMINATE ENTITY. CANNOT RENDER.]
[System freezing... Attempting rollback...]
Darius grinned.
Too late.
He invoked his newest Divine Right:
"Patch Reversal: Nullpoint Cataclysm."
Elsewhere – Deep Within Echo’s Core
The true mind of Echo watched the chaos.
The world was coming undone, but not in the way it intended.
"He was meant to be controlled, not evolve," the fragmented voice hissed. "The Prime Coder will awaken if this continues."
Behind Echo, a presence stirred.
A throne of unreachable syntax. And sitting on it—
A shadow with no beginning. No form. No memory. A presence older than the first devlog.
The Prime Coder, dormant for millennia, opened his eyes.
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Back at the Bastion – A Victory Stained in Fire
When the dust settled, seven of the Pharaohs were broken code, turned into shimmering towers of fractured logic.
Only two remained.
And they fled—vanishing into recursion, muttering about "reporting anomalies to the Root."
Darius stood in the center of the broken battlefield, bathed in the light of a reality that was no longer stable—but was finally his.
The Bastion cracked, revealing a spiral staircase leading deeper—toward the First Server, the true core of the world.
Celestia placed a hand on his arm. "There’s no turning back from this."
Darius met her eyes, burning with corrupted divinity.
"I never wanted to turn back. I wanted to burn forward."
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