As soon as the supervisor finished speaking, Leon Lake's calm expression shifted to something deeper, more contemplative.
The audience in the live broadcast room was momentarily silent—then immediately exploded with excitement!
They wished they could leap into the screen themselves and shout "Yes!" on Leon's behalf.
On-screen:
Seeing Leon hesitate, the supervisor gave a faint smile. "I'll share the content first."
"I only have Level 4 clearance," Leon replied calmly.
"I'm O5."
Faced with that answer, Leon was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Okay."
Even the supervisor seemed surprised by how decisively he accepted.
She stepped closer, her gaze probing. "I assume you've read the previous five iterations of the file? What did you conclude?"
"SCP-2317-K isn't contained by the Foundation."
The supervisor's eyes narrowed. She neither confirmed nor denied it, but gave a slight tilt of her chin—go on.
"SCP-2317-K isn't the Crimson King."
"…Continue." Her voice finally held a note of tension.
Leon didn't waver as he spoke his last hypothesis:
"The 220-Kayla Basas ritual doesn't work."
The supervisor froze. The audience, too, was stunned.
The ritual doesn't work?!
Immediately, the chat exploded.
> "WTF?! The Foundation's ritual is fake?"
"Dude's gotta be wrong. What if it's working and that's why the monster hasn't moved?"
"I mean... it could be just buying time. The Foundation wouldn't lie, would they?"
S.H.I.E.L.D.
"I can buy the first two, but the ritual not working? I'm not sold," Natasha muttered, her brows furrowed. "Just because 2317-K isn't the Crimson King doesn't mean the ceremony is useless."
Nick Fury stood silent, eyes narrowed. He didn't want to admit it, but he shared Leon's suspicion. A god like the Crimson King being appeased by a symbolic chicken sacrifice? Seemed unlikely.
On-screen:
The supervisor studied Leon for a long moment, as if seeing him for the first time.
At last, she spoke in a low, serious tone.
"You were right about the first two. SCP-2317 was not originally a Foundation containment, and it's not a 'gate to another world.'"
Leon raised his brows.
"In reality, SCP-2317 is an ancient entity known as [DATA EXPUNGED]—the Devourer of Worlds. The Erikesh Codex records it was imprisoned by the occultists of Erikesh around 1894 BCE."
"The Devourer of Worlds? Erikesh?" Leon echoed, visibly intrigued.
The audience was stunned. This was more than just a monster behind a wooden door.
On-screen:
The supervisor continued:
> "The Codex states: 'Then KESHPETH led his ten thousand into the realm above the clouds, where they battled the Devourer—may his name be forgotten forever.'
'And KESHPETH and his host of ten thousand forged seven chains of fineness, made from the bones of JASPETAR, the Seventh Bride of [DATA EXPUNGED], the Dread Devourer...'"
> "'He was bound in the Pearl of the Father of Secrets, in the Mirror of Salt beneath the Ocean Realm.'"
> "'The gates to the Far Realm were sealed, lest the Devourer ever return to our world.'"
As her voice echoed, an image formed in the audience's minds—
A legion of mystic warriors battling an enormous, world-devouring titan in the skies above a forgotten realm, until the creature was shackled deep beneath a foreign dimension.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
"So SCP-2317 isn't a door," Natasha murmured. "SCP-2317-K is the real thing... A Devourer of Worlds."
And it had been sealed... not by science or superhumans, but by mystics from over 3,000 years ago.
Kamar-Taj
"Seven fine chains..." the Ancient One whispered, her mind racing. Who—or what—was the 'Seventh Bride'? What power could bind such a creature?
And most importantly... what connection did it have to the Crimson King?
Observer Dimension
Yuatu was speechless. Another unfathomable entity the Marvel universe had never even glimpsed... and it had been imprisoned by humans.
On-screen:
The supervisor pressed on.
> "We don't know how the 19th-century Order of the Golden Arrow accessed the Erikesh dimension, or why. But the first four chain breaks were accidental."
Leon frowned. "So when did the Foundation get involved?"
> "After the collapse of the previous group, the 'Our Founders' society. The Foundation took over the project... and forged the idea that it was merely 'a gate.'"
"So the gate was a cover story."
The supervisor nodded. "Records indicate the final collapse of containment is expected within a century of that document's date. Chain breaks occur approximately every 30 years."
Leon asked the question on everyone's mind:
> "Can't the chains be repaired?"
The supervisor shook her head. "Every attempt failed. No known process or material can replicate the original chains."
She sighed. "Research into alternatives continues, but the materials used no longer exist."
Leon asked the last, most pressing question: "What's the link between the Devourer and the Crimson King? Why mention Him in the ritual?"
The supervisor paused. "We haven't confirmed anything. We have two theories."
> "Initially, we believed the Devourer of Worlds was a projection of the Crimson King."
The audience gasped.
> "But that theory was discarded."
Now the supervisor looked directly into Leon's eyes.
> "The Devourer is likely an anomaly infected with the Crimson King's concept."
Chaos.
The chat exploded again:
> "WHAT? The Crimson King corrupted the Devourer???"
"The Devourer isn't even his projection?! Just a thing He infected???"
"I... I'm not sure we're safe anymore."
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury felt his throat tighten. The Devourer could already end the world—and it was just a corrupted shell?
How powerful was the Crimson King himself?
On-screen:
Leon took a moment to absorb it.
The supervisor sighed. "Your willpower exceeds most doctors. You have one more question."
Leon nodded. "My third hypothesis…"
> "Correct," she said without hesitation. "The 220-Kayla Basas procedure is meaningless."
Everyone watching felt a collective shudder.
Of course it was.
If the Crimson King couldn't be bribed, and the Devourer was already chained...
Then this "ritual" was just a show.
> "The primary threat now is internal," said the supervisor. "Morale. Despair. Panic. If the truth got out—that the containment is fake—the Foundation would collapse."
Leon narrowed his eyes. "So the ritual…"
> "Was deliberately constructed to feel real."
> "It uses ritual magic tropes, religious imagery, nods to other SCP organizations, and even fictional elements like blessed chickens and obsidian blades... all to make it feel authentic."
As she recounted the O5 council meeting that approved the ritual, her voice dropped:
> "Procedure 220-Kayla Basas was never about containing anything. It was about hope—the illusion of control. The belief that something was being done... until a better answer could be found
The entire Marvel world watched in stunned silence.
Even gods tremble when false comfort is all that stands between reality and annihilation.
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