Ascension Protocol: Zero to Omega

There was no warning.



No sirens, no countdown, no final broadcast to unite humanity in defiance. Just light—blinding, burning light that carved through the clouds like the judgment of a forgotten god.



Then darkness.



Cities crumbled. Satellites blinked out. The Internet died, and along with it, the illusion that we were in control.



Seventeen billion people vanished overnight.



The rest of us—those unlucky or lucky enough to remain—woke up to a world rewritten by rules that didn't belong.