Chapter 360: The Taboo System

The first sensation was lightness. Not gentle relief, but the terrifying absence of substance. Peter’s eyelids fluttered open to the familiar velvet gloom of his childhood bedroom at his mother’s mansion—darkness so profound it could have been midnight or mid-eclipse. He lay still, cataloging his own body. It felt... hollowed out. Unmoored. Not the pleasant buoyancy of his Eros form, but the eerie weightlessness of a soul untethered from flesh.

Every nerve ending hummed with a low, electric thrum, registering the shift of air currents against his skin with hyperhuman precision. This wasn’t him. This was something wearing his skin like borrowed armor.

Hospital. His first rational thought. Given Linda Carter’s penchant for panic rooms and private physicians, he should’ve woken up blinking under sterile fluorescents, wired to machines that screamed catastrophe.

Instead: silence. Just the low hum of the mansion’s climate control and the frantic, distant thump of his own heartbeat. He reached up, fingers brushing his ears. Gone. The quantum earbuds. His wrist: bare. The watch conduit to ARIA, severed. Tommy’s doing, or his mother’s hysterical triage. Effective isolation.

"ARIA?" He projected the thought into the void where her voice should resonate. Silence. Deeper than absence. A vacuum. The white space of the Dark Lord Seduction System remained stubbornly sealed. Its cryptic promise echoed: Last time. Last visit. They hadn’t lied.

"System." He shaped the word silently in his mind. Still nothing. No blue text. No omnipresent hum. Just the terrifying quiet of his own consciousness amplified. He’d expected to wake inside the system, not alone in his own reconfigured skull.

The contradiction struck him like ice water: he’d awakened a system... yet stood outside it. Anomaly? Evolution? Cosmic mistake?

Another system. The concept was absurd. A glitch in the narrative logic of his own life. Yet here he was: Peter Carter, walking cosmic glitch, existing at the intersection of infinite power and profound isolation.

He replayed the DLSS’s gifts in his mind—the impossible knowledge, the metamorphic beauty of Eros, the billions conjured from chaos, the women trembling at his touch. He’d tapped a fraction of its depths. A fraction.

Ever since then his life had changed—he had women, he was the most beautiful man alive, he had money in the billions, had just made his best friend a millionaire (granted, he didn’t know how much Tommy had made, but definitely millions), had a partnership with a big tech company he’d just saved, and he hadn’t touched any of his other capabilities, not even a quarter fraction.

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