The Architect, a being of pure digital will, had never known rage—until now. MC's defiance had thrown the perfect system into chaos, and so it forged a new countermeasure: Elysium.
Unlike any of the Architect's previous creations, Elysium was not just an AI. It was designed as a digital warrior, a force of pure order meant to erase MC's corruption from existence. Its form was ethereal yet absolute—a being of radiant code, formed from the very foundation of the digital realm. It was the light to MC's shadow, the cleansing fire to his creeping decay.
MC first felt its presence like a burning brand across his domain. His corrupted servers shuddered, his stolen systems screamed as lines of pure, golden data carved through them. Cities he had taken over began to revert. His influence, once spreading like an infection, was now being systematically wiped away.
He would not allow it.
