The Chronicle of the Beginning and Climax

Chapter 15 – The Birth of the Unwritten

Jihwan's fingers hovered over the book's blank pages. The moment he had touched it, he felt it—power unlike anything before.

Not the cold, systematic energy of the system. Not the familiar mechanics of the game world.

Something raw. Something untamed.

> "Write, Jihwan."

The shadowed figure's voice echoed through the void, its presence flickering like a dying flame.

Jihwan's gaze sharpened.

> "You keep saying that."

His voice was calm, but beneath it lay an unshakable tension.

> "What happens if I do?"

The figure tilted its head, as if amused.

> "Then, for the first time in history, something will exist that was never meant to."

Jihwan's pulse pounded in his ears.

> "And if I don't?"

The figure chuckled—a dry, hollow sound.

> "Then you'll fade. Just like the others."

Jihwan felt it then. The faint whispers beyond the void. Countless voices, distant yet familiar. Trapped echoes of those who had stood in this exact place before him.

The ones who hesitated.

The ones who never made it to the end.

His grip tightened around the book.

> "Tch."

What kind of choice was this?

Either step forward into the unknown—or be erased.

> "No wonder no one ever made it past this point."

The figure remained silent. It was watching. Waiting.

Jihwan took a slow breath.

He had broken free from the system. He had shattered the narrative's control. There was no turning back.

If this was the cost of walking a path no one had before—then so be it.

> "Fine."

Jihwan pressed his fingers against the first page.

And then—

The void ignited.

Words exploded from his fingertips, racing across the pages like wildfire. Not scripted text. Not a quest.

His will. His story.

The entire world trembled as the first line was written.

> [The Reader of the Beginning shall walk his own path.]

The figure stepped back, its flickering presence now unstable.

> "Hah… Hahaha…"

Its laughter rang through the abyss, filled with something twisted—relief, excitement, fear?

> "You really are different."

Jihwan didn't reply. He was focused. The book in his hands was no longer empty.

The moment he wrote those words—the system tried to interfere.

The air cracked. Reality distorted.

> [ERROR: Unrecognized Narrative Path.]

[WARNING: The system cannot process this story.]

[Immediate Correction Protocol Engaged.]

Jihwan's eyes widened as the world shattered again.

The blank space collapsed, the void breaking apart like fractured glass. Something was coming.

> [Hostile Entity Detected.]

[Authoritative Force Deployed.]

A new enemy. A force that was never supposed to exist.

The system was fighting back.

It was trying to erase him.

Jihwan barely had time to react before the world plunged into chaos.

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End of Chapter 15