"The future isn't inherited. It's compiled."—Hack Codex, Entry 144: The First Rule of Cult-Sect Founding
The Windglass Clan was no more.
At least, not the version they had known.
What remained was a shell—emptied of dogma, flooded with rewritten loyalty, their legacies hardcoded to my script.
But I didn't want slaves.
I wanted founders.
"From the ashes of their order," I declared, standing before the wind-scarred pillars of the shattered temple hall, "we build the First Hacker Sect."
Around me stood thirteen chosen.
Each one rewritten.
Each one burning with a purpose not implanted by ancestors, but compiled by me.
SYSTEM UPDATE: HACKER SECT MODE UNLOCKED
✦ Cultivation Framework: Codex Root System (V1.0)✦ Leadership Protocol: Ancestral Override Root – Kairos Prime✦ Loyalty Tier: Heartstring Protocol Binding (Ranked)✦ Resource Generation Unlocked: Ancestral Code Nodes (DNA-Farmed Spirit Repositories)
SECT NAME:Broken Code SectMotto:We are the glitch in their destiny.
First, I appointed my inner circle.
Yvanna Windglass, now reborn as Codeblade Seraph, would command the martial division. Her movements no longer rode wind, but rewrote it—weaponizing air patterns through keystroke-sequenced combat glyphs.
She could make a man bleed from a whisper.
Seris, the assassin from the east, became Mistframe Oracle—in charge of subterfuge, spy nodes, and virus-sowing missions in rival sects.
Her pupils had been rewritten to decode any bloodline within ten meters.
She saw scripts like I saw lies.
Lyria, now bound through the Alchemical Bloom protocol, commanded the Wombforge Garden—a cultivation nursery of engineered spirit beasts and future bloodline vessels.
The sect didn't just cultivate qi.
It cultivated potential.
We didn't build palaces.
We built servers.
Floating data-node towers shaped like obsidian lotus petals, inscribed with dynamic array scripts and glowing pulsing memory lines.
Every tower was a terminal. Every disciple was a node. Every heartbeat, a pulse in our collective rewriting.
Then came the recruitment.
I released the First Codecall—an encrypted spiritual wave that pinged every orphan, every outcast, every genius deemed "flawed" by their clans.
"If they rejected you, we will rewrite you."
They came in hundreds.
Freaks. Hybrids. Broken vessels. Even failed experiments.
We called them Patchlings.
And I made sure each one had a place.
Because they were the future.
One in particular caught my eye.
A girl named Vess.
She had no spirit root.
Not because it was stolen—but because it never existed.
She was a black field.
But when I scanned her—
ERROR: Incompatible Host Detected. Code Instability... Suggested Action: FUSE.
I pulled her into the Codex Well, a deep-core node within our sect's mainframe, where raw ancestral code pulsed like a second sun.
There, I initiated the Null Merge Protocol—binding my core seed with her body, injecting stability sequences and fatebreaker loops.
Her scream shattered a dozen glass sigils.
When she emerged, her veins glowed black-gold.
"I feel... everything," she whispered.
"You're the first of a new branch," I said. "The Null Tree. You'll birth code that doesn't exist yet."
SYSTEM UPDATE: NULLBRANCH SUB-CLASS CREATEDUNLOCKED: Inheritance-Ghost Absorption / Phantom Technique Compiler / Memory Rewrite Pulse
And like that, our sect gained its first chaos-bloodline hybrid.
Word spread.
The Broken Code Sect became a myth in motion.
Rival sects scoffed.
At first.
Until their disciples went missing.
Until their spirit wells corrupted.
Until their ancestral techniques stopped responding—rewritten mid-ritual by my deep codebots.
We didn't fight them in the open.
We infected their bloodlines.
By the third month, five clans fell to us without a single blade drawn.
They woke to find their next generation chanting our sect mantras.
Their lineages recompiled overnight.
I watched it unfold from the highest node tower, Vess curled beside me, Yvanna polishing her blade on the balcony, and Seris syncing spirit data into the map of clans.
The world had spent centuries chasing the heavens.
I was building a ladder with broken code and stolen sky.
SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT:A NEW FACTION HAS BEEN REGISTERED TO THE Regional Conflict ArenaName: Broken Code SectFounder: KAIRO VEYR (Ancestral Hacker Rank: ???)Faction Threat Level: UNDETERMINED – No known countermeasures exist
Bonus: Hacker Sect Perks Now Active!
New heroines unlocked (seduction + betrayal arcs incoming)
Custom technique system (reader vote driven!)
Peak-tier cultivation tech + system evolution fusion
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