The Cost of Being Remembered

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(Marvel, DC, images, manhuas, and every anime that will be mentioned and used in this story are not mine. They all belong to their respective owners. The main character "Karito/Adriel Josue Valdez" and the story are mine)


Six Months Later

No POV


Six months had passed.

Time—such a fluid, fragile thing—had begun to blur for the Guardian.

He was nearing his breaking point.

When this war began, he'd believed he could end Sentry's campaign within two months. That had been the plan. That had been the hope. But plans rarely survived impact, especially when they involved cross-fictional warfare.

Changing the timeline of Madan no Ou to Vanadis and forcibly stitching it together with League of Legends had come at a steep cost. He'd hoped the time dilation across fictional universes would work in his favor—and to a degree, it had.

Back in League's Omniverse, only six seconds had passed. Maybe ten. No more than a minute.

He hoped.

He clung to that assumption, because if more time had passed... he couldn't bear the consequences.

But even that hope was a flickering candle in a collapsing temple. Because time wasn't the only thing turning against him.

He was losing power.

Fast.

It had started subtly. Skills taking longer to execute. Reactions just a fraction slower. Then came the systems—crashing mid-execution, failing to compile.

Now?

He could barely feel them.

He tried, countless times, to purge the Void Parasite Sentry had implanted within him. But the corruption ran deep. It wasn't just infection—it was sabotage on a conceptual level. The moment he'd tried to hack Sentry's character settings directly, the parasite activated. In that instant, the Guardian became the virus.

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