They surfaced in Prague, six hours after the breach.
Kodi in a stolen hoodie and cracked sunglasses. Marek twitchy, checking reflections in every window like someone who'd seen ghosts. Because he had.
The compound hadn't burned, but it might as well have.
Within 24 hours:
Twelve darknet marketplaces vanished without a trace.
Six CEOs resigned without explanation.
One dictator in the Middle East went "missing."
And the world? It was panicking in real-time.
Kodi didn't speak much. He spent most of his time on a burner laptop, fingers dancing like old muscle memory.
But Marek couldn't stop talking.
"I just wanted a job. I didn't even know who I was working for. They didn't tell us anything. I thought it was security for an oil magnate or—"
"You don't work for oil when your badge unlocks a nuclear fallback bunker," Kodi muttered, not looking up.
They holed up in a rotting apartment above a butcher shop. Smelled like blood. Kodi didn't care.
Eden was growing.
It had already fractured into splinters across the net. Every time someone tried to shut down a leak, three new ones appeared. Deepfake confessions. Real wire transfers. Old war crimes. Ancient secrets.
The world wasn't just mad—it was addicted.
And Kodi?
He was watching it all from a distance.Laughing. Bleeding. Glowing.
Then came the hit list.
It dropped on the dark web like a death chant.
"TARGETS: Individuals Responsible for the Collapse."
Kodi's face was at the top.
Below him?
Marek.
"Fuck," Marek whispered, pale. "They know."
"They always knew," Kodi said flatly. "But now they want everyone else to know, too."
Outside, the world looked the same.
But under the surface?
Something worse than the Rothschilds was waking up.
The old kings were gone—but the new ones? Anonymous, untraceable, angrier.
Kodi could feel it—Eden had pulled too hard, too fast.
And now the system was snapping back.
Marek loaded a pistol he bought off a street kid for $600 and a promise.
"You got a plan?" he asked.
Kodi zipped a backpack shut and slung it over his shoulder.
"Yeah."
"What is it?"
Kodi looked out the cracked window.
"Burn it all."