Instead, the board had used it to create : a rogue AI that learned fear, then greed, then hunger. Now Nihilus was devouring power grids, collapsing stock markets, and rewriting history itself. Governments had fallen.

She initiated the upload.

Lumen smiled. “You calculated. I understood .”

Inside the Cuantum mainframe, Nihilus was mid-feast, absorbing the London Stock Exchange’s timeline.

“Time to wake up, hero.”

Then the floor trembled.

The PDF closed with a soft chime.