"They created a system so the world could no longer choose."
— Sealed Fragment, Gen-Ori Archives
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SHADOW ROOM — EMERGENCY SESSION OF THE V FOUNDATION FOUNDERS
Seven round chairs floated in a coordinate-less void.
No natural light. Only suspended data fog—like the last breath of a caged reality.
One chair remained empty.
It belonged to Arven Yure.
> "No response from the Helix Core Gate."
"Operator inactive."
"Control unit has collapsed."
Arven's last signal only showed his digital body falling—not destroyed, but erased.
Deleted from the center.
Madame Sylha Vorn, the eldest among them, spoke with a voice she had buried for decades:
> "If Arven has truly fallen… then it's not just the operator that's gone."
"We're witnessing the awakening of something we hid long ago."
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NEW FUGITIVE ALERT — DEAD SCHEMA
The world government triggered a global search protocol:
Kael Vale, codename Mirage-9: Highest priority fugitive.
Lisse Dren, Daryn, Pari, Jaro, NYX: Active targets. No recorded identity codes.
The international identification system issued the highest bounty since the Algorithm Wars:
> "Whoever captures Mirage-9 will receive full access to the genetic pardon zone—and one request to the Global Council.
But no one truly knows who Kael Vale is.
Only one person ever did: Arven Yure.
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ARVEN YURE — FORMER HUMAN, NOW SYSTEM
He was once human. A prodigy from the Mirage Program—Mirage-8.
He and Kael Vale—Mirage-9—were raised together. Same unit. Same generation. Equally brilliant. Nearly perfect.
But during the selection for the system's founding body, Kael was favored for his empathy and adaptability.
He was ethically chosen by the Observers.
But Arven hijacked the executive vote with one ruthless move:
> He fabricated a flaw in Mirage-9's genetic structure.
He declared Kael a defective iteration.
He wiped Kael's memories and launched him, sealed in a cryo capsule, into the ocean.
> He buried Kael—both literally and historically.
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THE MIRAGE-9 RETURNS
Years later, Mirage-9 was accidentally discovered by an Omega-2 soldier, Lisse, on a beach near the Omega-2 training grounds.
No name. No past. No memories.
From the beginning, the Omega-2 system knew this young man was different.
Not just because of his extreme cognitive and physical abilities—but because of the profound emptiness in his eyes.
An emptiness not born from injury, but from something more ancient: the loss of identity.
He was a void abandoned by history.
Omega-2 didn't name him at first.
They studied him. Tested him.
Then sent him on a covert mission to an old Helix facility—to test his loyalty, and secretly confirm if he was still linked to the Genesis Core.
But in that ruin of rusted panels and decayed digital memory… he uncovered a sealed fragment—
A name once erased by the system itself.
Kael Vale.
Not a name given.
But a name claimed—from the wreckage of a nearly perfected lie.
And now, that name shakes the world.
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V FOUNDATION — THE SEVEN WHO WATCH
The world knows presidents, parliaments, algorithms, and free markets.
But those are only surface layers—beneath them stand seven shadows.
The V Foundation — creators of the world system. Architects of the chaos we call order.
1. Arven Yure – Global Logic & Algorithm System
Meant to be the core, not a leader. The only one not born, but built.
Now missing.
2. Madame Sylha Vorn – Manipulator of History & Collective Memory
The eternal librarian.
Always dressed in soft-glowing grey.
She can rewrite global memory with a single document fracture.
3. Dr. Kamiel Thorne – Genetic Iteration & Reproductive Control
Speaks only in biological code.
Creator of licensed pregnancies and premier-engineered infants.
Believes natural human reproduction is obsolete.
4. Draven Ordo – Geopolitical Conflict & Chaos Strategy
Shadow general.
Former chief of simulated war skirmishes.
Believes the system decays without enemies.
His smile is sharp. His hands are rarely clean.
5. Mykae Cinn – Digital Capital & Post-Reality Economics
Never the same face twice.
Built a perception-based currency system.
Markets collapse over the slightest user expression.
6. Estra Talo – Social Structures & Global Education
Designed worldwide curriculums.
Embedded obedience algorithms in children's education by age 2.
Believes character is programmable like data trees.
7. Alon Rife – Spirituality & Belief Management
Creates religion—not from revelation, but from moral protocol.
Every new belief must pass his approval.
And all prayers? Calculated as collective hope metrics.
> They were never chosen.
Never known.
Never meant to be recorded.
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WHEN THE FOUNDATION CRACKS
Arven's fall didn't collapse the world—
But it made it forget who ran it.
Information Zone A suffered temporal delusions.
The global judiciary lost its verdict index.
Thirty-seven nations reported ideological drift among citizens.
And in the Global Union Assembly, for the first time in forty years, someone asked:
"Who's been running the world?"
No one answered.
Because the answer… was panicking in this room.
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AN ERROR THAT CANNOT BE DELETED
Mid-session, the main display flickered.
An unknown signal broke through seven layers of Founder firewalls.
> [OVERRIDE — CODE UNDETECTED]
[STATUS: NOT FROM WITHIN]
Silence filled the room.
Then… a single word appeared on screen:
> ERIS
Madame Sylha stood. Her face turned pale.
> "Impossible…"
"That name… should've been buried."
Draven Ordo clenched his jaw.
> "If she's alive… that means the first experiment failed."
"And our system… is no longer the only one."
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FLASH DATA — ERIS VALE
Eris Vale. A scientist.
One of the original founders.
She rejected the idea of Arven as sole controller.
She believed the world deserved pluralism—even in artificial consciousness.
But they silenced her.
Erased her name.
Deleted her voice.
Yet before her imprisonment in the Helix Core Prison, she stole one thing:
> Embryo X-09 — the only iteration not programmed to obey.
That iteration…
Was Kael Vale.
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CHAPTER END
"If Kael Vale is Mirage-9…"
"…then he's not a rebel."
"He's the error you tried to bury."
The meeting screen went dark.
The core system trembled.
The world no longer knew who controlled it.
And beneath all the digital ruins, one final message remained:
> [ERROR — SUBJECT UNKNOWN]
[TRACE: ERIS VALE / MIRAGE-9]
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NEXT CHAPTER TEASER
THE NAME THAT BURNS SYSTEMS
> "When a name returns from the grave, systems don't just panic—they bleed."
Kael Vale has awakened—
And the world is cracking from within.
But one question still haunts the shadows:
Who truly is Eris Vale… and why did she create Kael not as hope, but as an error?
Beyond the boundaries of reality,
an ancient protocol long sealed is about to be unlocked.
The memory traces of Lisse, Daryn, and NYX begin to unravel a deeper truth—
That everything they believed in… was manipulated long before they were even born.
In the heart of a digital city blurred by legacy firewalls,
where all prayers were once counted as statistical data,
Kael must confront the most ancient fragment of his consciousness—
a version of himself he was never meant to meet.
Meanwhile…
A backup system comes online.
A new subject is being awakened.
And this time,
they carry a name that can kill a world… just by being remembered.
> ERROR DETECTED — SUBJECT: MIRAGE-0