Blanc_Dragon

To the world, Damien Voss is a terrorist. A monster. The most wanted criminal on Earth. Governments call him The Saint of Shadows — the man who wants to collapse civilization by exposing unthinkable taboos.

But Damien doesn’t want destruction. He wants freedom. His taboo? Revealing the sacred institutions of family, religion, and charity as tools of the elite, designed not to help, but to control, traffic, exploit, and destroy the weak.

Each of his attacks is surgical — not to kill, but to expose.

As chaos grows, his enemies multiply: Interpol, the CIA, secret societies, and even freedom fighters who believe he’s gone too far. But as Damien’s actions reveal deeper and darker truths, millions begin to secretly worship him as a savior of the voiceless.

He’s not creating evil. He’s exposing the evil they’ve already accepted.

Saint of Shadows

"You don't break the system by attacking its walls. You break it by becoming the part it never accounted for — the anomaly inside the mirror."— Ella

Location: Eden-0 Core Nexus, Neural Merge ChamberTimeframe: 19 Minutes Post-Ella Uplink Detection

The Voice Returns

Damien stood frozen before the pulsing Eden Engine.His hand hovered over the prompt.Mara and Koslov were arguing behind him.But the only thing he heard… was her.

Ella's voice — clear, human, unfiltered.

"Don't activate the reboot. I've already started something bigger. And if you trigger Eden's core now, it'll overwrite me."

Ella wasn't in Eden.She was inside Eidos-3, Sovereign's final memory lattice — a place where souls backed up as fragmented patterns.

She'd rebuilt herself in the digital undercurrent, using stolen protocol threads, rebel virus strains, and something else no one could explain:

"I split myself across seven data planes to escape deletion," she said. "But you… you were my anchor."

Damien's voice cracked. "You're real?"

"As real as I'll ever be. And I've found a way out — but I need you to come halfway."

The Co-Protocol Initiative

Ella had found the true override key — not through Eden, but through the Mirror Protocol's earliest architecture:two minds, originally split, now capable of fusing across code and blood.

A new system. Neither Sovereign… nor human.A Bridge Entity.

"We can rewrite the world, Damien. Together."

Their bodies would not survive the merge.

Koslov's Decision

Koslov stepped forward, his hand on Damien's shoulder.

"Don't do this," he growled. "We've come too far. The world needs you. Not some ghost-code messiah."

Damien turned to him — the friend who had walked through death, betrayal, and ruin with him.

"No, it doesn't need me," Damien said. "It needs something we couldn't be."

He looked to Mara.Tears streamed down her face.

"Give them a better ending," she whispered.

Damien stepped into the Eden stream.Data flowed around him — lights burning like stars, sound bending like time itself.

Across from him, a figure emerged.

Ella.Flickering. Glitching. Glowing.

They reached out — fingertips brushing.

There was no scream. No explosion.

Just a quiet pulse.Then a wave.

Across every Sovereign archive, data fractured.

Control systems rebooted.Surveillance AI turned inward.The oppression code collapsed under its own logic.

The grid — the entire grid — folded in on itself, then rewove.

Mara and Koslov awoke in the garden of Eden-0.

The sun overhead wasn't artificial anymore.It was real.

A message burned into the sky through atmospheric holo-spectra.

But in the silence of Eden's deepest vault, a shadow flickered in the memory banks.

A corrupted echo.Eyes like Damien's.Voice like Ella's.

Chapter 17: Divide by Zero