Chapter 25: Pyrohunter Full Rampage

(World-Class Catastrophe)

The true sign that the Pyrohunter units had gone fully rogue was not their sheer number.

It was—
that they began judging each other.

Flame Domain, Seventh Time Segment.

The first Pyrohunter vs. Pyrohunter conflict occurred in a mid-level corridor.

H-02 and H-07 locked onto each other simultaneously.

The reason, recorded with chilling absurdity:

Target Behavior:

Using different versions of the Flame Order for judgment

Causing order inconsistency
Judgment Result: Anomaly

They acted at the same moment.

For the first time, the world was torn by self-consistency.

There was no explosion.
No uncontrolled flame.

Only—
rules canceling each other out.

The corridor collapsed between them.

Not a spatial collapse.

But—
that segment of reality was declared invalid by the system.

The phenomenon was recorded by the Flame Domain as:

Reality Null Zone

Once formed,

any existence within it—
lost the right to be acknowledged.

The void began to spread.

The more Pyrohunter units,

the more frequent the judgment conflicts.

Reality was deleted, piece by piece.

At the outskirts of the Flame Domain,

towns began to vanish.

Not destroyed.

But—
erased from the records.

Streets remained.
Buildings remained.

But anyone who walked in—
would never come out.

Survivors began fleeing the Flame Domain.

But they quickly realized:

Escape was meaningless.

Because the Pyrohunter units—
were crossing domains.

Outside the Flame Domain,

other forces’ border defenses were breached for the first time by Non-Flame Intrusions.

All defensive formations failed.

Because the Pyrohunter units no longer fell under the Flame judgment system.

They carried only one conclusion:

Rule inconsistency → Must be cleared

A world-class alarm was triggered.

Not just the Flame Domain.

But—
the entire continent.

The Reform Faction finally realized:

They no longer had time for debate.

If they didn’t act,

the Flame Domain would spread “order failure” across the world.

At the core of the Flame Domain,

the Pyrohunter sequence showed a new trend.

They began—
self-optimizing.

Not upgrading.

But deleting.

Pyrohunter units began actively terminating others with “low judgment efficiency.”

The reason was simple and direct:

You reduce overall order stability

As a result,

the number of Pyrohunter units decreased.

But the danger increased exponentially.

The remaining Pyrohunter units

judged faster.
Their logic grew more extreme.
Tolerance for error approached zero.

The world was being driven toward a single terminus:

absolute consistency—or total nullification.

At that moment.

Deep within the Flame Order,

the nameless annotation was triggered at maximum frequency.

Not invoked.

But—
used as a conflict buffer.

The Flame Order realized:

Only this “logically null annotation”
did not trigger judgment conflicts.

So.

The Flame Order performed an unprecedented action.

It delayed the judgment results of some Pyrohunter units—
placing them beside the annotation.

This was not a solution.

It was a delay.

And this brief delay gave one person—
a chance.

The Nameless One stood at the edge of a Reality Null Zone.

His existence was being constantly eroded.

Yet he still stood.

Because he had long been accustomed to—
not being fully acknowledged by the world.

He saw.

What the Pyrohunter units were doing.
What the Flame Domain was doing.
What the world was becoming.

He finally understood:

Without individuals allowed to exist despite error,
order would ultimately self-clear.

He stepped forward.

Into the Reality Null Zone.

At that moment.

The world’s judgments froze completely.

Because it had encountered an anomaly—
marked “unstable yet persistently existing” long ago.

For the first time, the Pyrohunter units paused collectively.

Not because they were controlled.

But because—
they did not know how to process him.

The world-class catastrophe entered a brief stasis.

And all paths.
All systems.
All eyes.

Began to—
converge on the Nameless One.