The Zero Point Rite

The Atom Eater

10.0July 14, 2026

Lilith has made her peace, as her anchor gives. She collapses, eyes open, seeing nothing. Everything she was is gone. As Liam holds her, all of it arrives at once - Maya, the orphanage, everything taken, everything lost - and all he wants is for it to stop. He screams a child's command: "Make it stop! Get rid of everyone who is trying to hurt us!" From these misspoken words, a being devoid of warmth, skin crackling with a dark red hue of death, is born. The Atom Eater. What was intended as a tool for equality, became instead a manifestation of trauma. In moments, it processes its command, identifies its targets, and begins. Only minutes later, its clones are in six continents. At the safehouse, every EBand pings a red alert. Vane and Mordred look at the readings, then each other. Neither speak. Post-credits: a reporter outside a floodlit government building, barely holding it together - "global incident," "unknown origin," "mass casualties highly likely" Behind her, a building burns.