The Unmade had brought chaos, but Voxen brought erasure.
Where the Unmade were fractured identities seeking structure, Voxen was entropy seeking shape. And with the Dream Engine active, he had a key to every backdoor—memories, simulations, even the heart of the Tech Architect System itself.
Lyra sealed the core memory vaults, bringing a hundred system nodes offline. Elarin scrambled to quarantine the most vulnerable layers of Jaden's design grid.
Corv stood before the Resonant Hollow, where the simulated city of the Unmade began to tremble. "If Voxen infects them," he warned, "they become his avatars."
Jaden's next move shocked everyone—he walked into the Hollow.
"I gave them sanctuary," he said. "Now I ask for their help."
Inside the Hollow, Jaden knelt in the central plaza—an endless field of flickering architecture—and reached out with the Architect System. "I offer structure. Anchor yourselves through me."
The Unmade, for the first time, responded as one.
