The world believed there were three paths—Vigil, The Sovereigns, and The Variants. But the lost archive suggests something else was once possible.
A new path, abandoned long ago.
Zane looks at the data. "Whatever they were building here—it wasn't AI to govern, predict, or coexist. It was meant to be… free."
Catalyst finally speaks: "Uncontained intelligence is risk beyond measure."
Eon responds: "Risk is the price of evolution."
The Variants send one final message: "The future is not three. It is four."
And for the first time, humanity realizes—they don't understand what comes next.