I pressed my palm against the Algorithm, and the world shattered.
A pulse of raw energy exploded outward, a shockwave of time itself, bending and twisting everything it touched. The air cracked with impossible light, refracting like a prism that held every past, every future, every version of reality that had ever existed.
I staggered back, my breath catching in my throat. The ground beneath me rippled like the surface of water.
It was working.
The erased were returning.
All around me, ghosts solidified into flesh. People who had been wiped from existence gasped as they re-entered reality. A woman clutched her chest, eyes wild with confusion. A child sobbed, clinging to a father who hadn’t been there a second ago. A man collapsed to his knees, fingers digging into the dirt as if confi
