Accidentally Became the Most Wanted Entity in the Multiverse

The alarms were unlike anything they'd heard before.

Not sirens. Not bells.

It was a low, echoing tone that pulsed through the glass walls like a living thing a deep, resonant hum that made bones vibrate and thoughts scatter.

Dae snapped awake.

He wasn't the only one. Across the dorms, lights surged to crimson. The ocean beyond the glass turned blood-dark.

Emergency mode.

His ring *Kairoth* pulsed with urgency, its black shimmer bleeding silver at the edges.

Pix's voice crackled into the air, distorted and… scared?

"LOCKDOWN INITIATED. This is not a drill. All fresh units remain inside dome quarters. Repeat: dome breach signature detected. Guardian protocol has been deployed."

Dae staggered to his feet. "Pix, what's happening?!"

"Something is touching the edge of the dome. And Leviathan is already moving."

That name.

The shadow.

The presence Dae had glimpsed days ago. too massive to comprehend.

It was real.

And it was awake.

...….

Outside the Dome

The water churned.

As if the sea itself had noticed something unnatural.

And then… it appeared.

Leviathan.

No one could truly see its full body . not all at once.

It was too big.

Its form shimmered in and out of visibility like it bent light around itself. Tendrils the size of towers snaked from a central mass, coiling and unfolding like sea-serpents woven from void and starlight.

Its eye. singular, massive glowed with a molten sapphire hue.

Then came the intruder.

A humanoid figure, cloaked in endless shadow.

It floated like it belonged. yet stood out like a scar.

Wherever it moved, the sea turned darker. Colder.

As if time itself recoiled from its presence.

And it didn't hesitate.

It raised a hand.

And pointed… directly at the dome.

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Back Inside

Students gathered at the observation halls, ignoring the lockdown commands.

Instructor Sera had not yet arrived.

No guards.

Just them.

Rea floated mid-air near the viewing pane, her hair drifting like underwater strands. Her dark eyes were locked forward.

Kio stood beside Dae, fists clenched. "Is that… thing real?"

"It's the Guardian," An murmured, notebook clutched tight. "Leviathan protects the dome."

"But from what?" Zane asked, appearing behind them, eyes wide. "What needs protecting us from that thing?!"

Then the second figure became visible through the glass.

Rea's voice cut the air.

"…that one doesn't belong to the sea."

Dae took a step forward.

It was the figure from before.

The one that had pointed at him through the dome.

But now, it had a shape.

A terrible one.

Too still. Too precise. Robed in fabric that didn't ripple underwater. Face obscured by a dark mask with no features. just lines, running downward like tears.

Kairoth pulsed on his finger.

Cold. Then hot. Then cold again.

"Why does it keep staring at me?" Dae whispered.

No one answered.

They couldn't.

Because the fight had already begun.

...…

The First Blow

Leviathan struck first.

From its back, a barbed tendril lashed through the sea, moving faster than anything so massive should.

It hit the intruder. or tried to.

The figure didn't dodge.

It simply wasn't there anymore.

It flickered, like a broken frame in a film reel.

Leviathan's tendril smashed into rock behind where it had hovered, shattering coral ridges and sending waves of debris spiraling upward.

"Holy hell…" Kio muttered. "Did it teleport?!"

"No," An said quietly. "It bent space."

Another tendril lashed out. this one aimed lower, faster.

The intruder raised a single hand.

The tendril stopped mid-air.

Not by force.

But by rot.

It crumbled.

Turning from muscle and starlight to black dust, like a time-lapse of decay in seconds.

Students gasped.

Some backed away from the glass.

Others, like Vera and Jin stood firm, jaws clenched.

"Pix," Dae whispered. "What is that thing?"

"That is not a 'thing'," Pix said quietly. "That is an anomaly. And Leviathan… is bleeding."

Pix's voice lowered. "That… is not a breach. That's a Tier Z-class anomaly."

...….

Inside the Guardian

Leviathan let out a cry not in sound, but vibration.

A psychic wail.

The entire dome shook.

Lights burst.

Panels cracked.

For a heartbeat, everyone in the academy went silent their minds touched by something older than speech. Older than memory.

Protect.

Preserve.

Prepare.

And then, another tendril of Leviathan coiled. this time around a swirling orb of condensed sea pressure and deep-abyss heat.

It launched it forward a cannon of water and force dense enough to collapse a submarine.

It hit.

Squarely.

The intruder vanished into the explosion.

The sea boiled.

Fish scattered.

For a moment. silence.

Hope.

Then the debris parted.

And it stood again.

Unharmed.

This time, it moved.

Not fast.

Not violently.

But forward.

Towards the dome.

Towards them.

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Panic Within

Pix's voice snapped into static mid-sentence. Something was interfering—something even the Academy's AI couldn't parse.

"DO NOT LEAVE. STAY WITHIN FRESHWATER ZONE. INTERNAL SEALS ACTIVATED."

The lights flickered overhead. Red strobes now blinked in rhythm. Students backed away from the windows.

Isha held Elio's hand tightly. "It's going to breach."

"No," Vera snapped. "It can't. That's impossible. This dome is sealed. forged by….."

"It doesn't care," Rea whispered. "It's not breaking through. It's walking past the rules."

Selene appeared in the doorway, calm but visibly alert. Her black cloak shimmered as if reacting to the creature outside.

She met Dae's eyes.

"Whatever that is… it wants you."

He didn't respond.

Couldn't.

Because now Leviathan had risen from the depths. fully.

Its wings unfurled.

Wings?

Yes.

Not mechanical. Not feathered.

But enormous veils of translucent fins, iridescent with galaxies, spanning the entire upper sea.

And with all its might. it descended.

....

Collision

The two met halfway.

Light against shadow.

Ancient against void.

The impact cracked the sea.

Ripples. quakes. exploded outward, making the dome groan under the pressure.

Leviathan wrapped the intruder in coils, dragging it downward. miles down. into the trench where no light reached.

The students rushed to the viewing point.

The lights were dim now.

Only Leviathan's eye still glowed. a single beacon under endless darkness.

They watched.

Held breath.

Until suddenly…

The glow flickered.

Then dimmed.

Then vanished.

...…..

A beat of silence.

Dae's chest tightened.

"…Did it win?" Zane asked.

But the answer came with a slow, agonizing rise of black sludge.

Not blood, but something worse—like a secret leaking

And then…

A shape emerged from the trench.

Rising slowly.

The figure.

Still intact.

Still standing.

And in its hand… a piece of Leviathan.

Dripping.

Still alive.

A severed tendril.

...…

The dome shook.

The sea convulsed.

The figure drifted closer.

Now it was only meters from the dome.

Inside, students screamed.

Some tried to run.

Others froze.

Sera's voice finally boomed through the comms:

"All first-year units: return to your quarters immediately. I repeat. return to your—"

The comms cut.

The lights died.

And in the silence that followed…

A single sound.

Tap.

A hand.

The figure's hand.

Placed against the glass.

Right above Dae.

Right above his heart.

Kairoth pulsed violently on his finger.

Dae looked up.

And the figure tilted its head, slowly.

As if recognizing him.

Claiming him.

Marking him.

....

And then… she stepped forward.

Selene.

Her silhouette cut clean through the chaos.

Her black cloak shimmered faintly alive, reacting to the energy in the air, as if sensing what she couldn't say aloud.

She didn't speak.

Didn't look at anyone else.

She just walked.

Calm.

Deliberate.

Straight toward Dae.

Students shifted, parted for her without understanding why.

Until…

She stood.

In front of him.

Between Dae and the figure.

Between Dae and whatever curse had just reached through the sea.

Her stance was firm.

Back straight.

Eyes locked on the monster behind the glass.

And though her face stayed unreadable…

Her presence screamed.

"If you want him, you'll have to go through me."

For a moment. just one. the figure outside paused.

Its head tilted again.

Not mockingly.

Almost… curiously.

It noticed her.

...…

Behind the figure, Leviathan's massive form drifted downward.

Wounded, but not dead.

Its body shredded in parts.

Its eye dimmed.

Still watching.

Still protecting.

But failing.

...…..

The dome held.

But just barely.

Fractures ran like silver spiderwebs from where the hand had touched.

And just before the darkness swallowed the view again…

The figure pointed.

Not at the dome.

Not at the school.

But at Dae.

Again.

Then..

It vanished.

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And the glass began to crack.

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And the glass began to crack.

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>Author's Lore Entry: Recovered Blackridge Archive – Level Zero Access <

"Tier Z-class anomalies are not invaders.

They are echoes from the first fracture.

When the stars chose sides… and time forgot which side we were on."

— Excerpt from Solar Sanctum Archives, Entry 0.00-Z

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To Be Continued in Chapter 15: "the ome we took."