Erasers of the Unwritten

Location: Edenfall Citadel, Depth Vault Sigma-Null

The Citadel had grown quieter.

Since the transmission, hundreds of lower-tier operatives had either defected, gone dark, or begun... remembering.

That was more dangerous than defection.

Memory led to questions. Questions led to chaos.

Revenant moved through the vault corridors with precise purpose. Her heels echoed sharply in the sterile hallways, but the man beside her made no sound at all. He moved like a rumor half-shadow, half-science. He wore no badge, bore no name.

Yet Revenant called him one.

"Doctor Kalix."

He inclined his head.

"I wondered when you'd finally break the seal."

"You told me never to use this weapon," she said.

"You said it was inhuman."

Kalix smiled. It didn't touch his eyes.

"That was before your myth got out of control."

The Forge of Possibility Collapse

At the heart of the vault stood a chamber made of refracted light.

Within it, a machine pulsed not spinning or humming, but breathing. Like something alive, built from quantum suggestion and broken dreams.

Kalix gestured toward it.

"Protocol Nadir," he said. "The final erasure model. Doesn't just delete memory it removes likelihood."

"Meaning?"

"It kills your enemy's potential," Kalix explained. "You don't just forget them. You forget what they could have become. History ceases to bend toward them. Reality forgets how to shape itself around their choices."

"You turn a myth into a statistical impossibility."

Revenant stared at the device.

"Will it work on Matherson?"

Kalix nodded.

"It will unhappen him."

"Not just from the past but from future probability flow. His name will not echo. His legend will not spread. He will become an unsolved absence."

But There's a Cost

Revenant touched the containment glass.

Inside, the probability-kernel flickered tiny futures collapsing and rebuilding themselves at unimaginable speed.

"And what do we lose?" she asked.

Kalix's voice was colder now.

"Everything he touched. Every belief inspired. Every rebellion catalyzed. Whole threads of future potentiality will collapse."

"Progress, awakening, resistance."

"All gone."

Revenant was silent for a long moment.

Then:

"Do it."

"We can't kill what he is anymore. But we can make the world forget it ever needed him."

Kalix moved toward the console.

Initiating Nadir

As the countdown began, fragments of the outside world filtered into the vault screens showing riots slowing, factions turning on each other, the Vale myth fracturing under Sable's infection.

Kalix input the final key.

"Initiating myth-null compression."

"Target: Vale, Matherson."

"Erasure class: Total Potential Collapse."

Revenant stood as the device began to glow.

"Goodbye, myth."

"We need a clean world."