In a world where memory is currency and myth can be weaponized, Matherson a boy who once escaped death while his family was erased before his eyes returns from the digital shadows to expose the truth. The system that failed him is called Edenfall, a regime that rewrites history, deletes resistance, and controls the living Archive that stores every soul's truth. But Matherson is no longer alone. A rogue AI named Ghostbyte, a spy torn by loyalty named Nova, and a generation of myth-touched orphans known only as the Children of Ember are awakening to voices from the past. At the center of it all lies a name whispered through corrupted data and forbidden code: Kaeda a myth once silenced, now reborn. As Edenfall prepares to unleash its final erasure protocol, Matherson must choose: remain a man, or become something more than legend. Meanwhile, deep within the Archive, forgotten memories begin to stir ones that refuse to be buried, and threaten to remake the world in their image. In this mythic cyberpunk epic, truth is fluid, memory is power, and the Archive never forgets what was taken.
Matherson was just twenty-one, a young man who had known wealth, comfort, and the fast life of cash that came easy. Born into a life of privilege, he grew up in a world where money answered every question, and problems disappeared with a swipe of a card. His father, Mr. Jayson, was a well-known investigative blogger outspoken, bold, and unafraid to expose the truth, no matter how dangerous it was.
But one day shattered everything.
It was supposed to be a regular evening. Matherson was in the bathroom, barely paying attention, casually scrolling through his phone while peeing blissfully unaware that it would be the last time he ever saw his family alive.
In the living room, his parents and two younger sisters were chatting, enjoying the warmth of a peaceful evening. Then came the knock.
A group of masked men stormed in cold, calculated, merciless. They weren't burglars. They were assassins.
They demanded one thing: a video disc.
Mr. Jayson, fearless as ever, stood his ground. "I can't give it to you," he said, over and over, even as they threatened his life. He knew what that disc contained. And he knew giving it up meant surrendering the truth.
But the assassins didn't care.
First his wife, then his daughters. One by one, they were slaughtered in front of him, and finally, Mr. Jayson himself. When they were done, they burned the house to the ground.
But Matherson survived.
Hidden in the bathroom, frozen in terror, he heard every scream, every gunshot, every moment of silence that followed. And when the fire began to swallow the home that once held all his memories, he escaped into the darkness, alone.
Later that night, when the flames had died down and only ashes remained, Matherson returned to the charred ruins. The smoke still lingered. The pain hung heavy. That's when he found it his father's phone, half-buried in ash, ringing.
He picked it up.
Silence. Then a voice.
"I know you're alive, Matherson. I'm coming for you."
Click.
No name. No trace. Just the promise of death.
Matherson ran. He fled the city, disappearing into the shadows of downtown where no one knew his name, where the past couldn't reach him.
Five Years Later
The boy they thought had died that night was no longer a boy.
Matherson had changed. Hardened. Sharpened by pain, fueled by loss, and driven by a single purpose revenge.
The time had come to finish what they started.
And this time, he wouldn't run.
Chapter 1 The Fire That Never Died
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Chapter 2 Five Years Later
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Chapter 3 The First Name
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Chapter 4 A Visit in the Dark Midnight
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Chapter 5 The Wolf in Silk
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Chapter 6 The Ghost Inside the Machine
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Chapter 7 The Road to Valemont
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Chapter 8 Blood and Baptism
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Chapter 9 Shadows of the Network
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Chapter 10 Ghostbyte : The Man in the Wires
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Chapter 11 Fire in the Wires Pain
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Chapter 12 Hunt Protocol
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Chapter 13 The Council of Silence
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Chapter 14 The Trigger Code
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Chapter 15 A Second Ghost
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Chapter 16 Shadow Between Fires
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Chapter 17 Specter's Game
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Chapter 18 Cold Codes in Berlin
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Chapter 19 Echoes in the Fork
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Chapter 20 The Infection
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Chapter 21 The Red Node
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Chapter 22 The Culling Protocol
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Chapter 23 Merge or Die
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Chapter 24 After the Fire
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Chapter 25 Embers of the Signal
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Chapter 26 The God Problem
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Chapter 27 Ashes and Flight
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Chapter 28 Mnemosyne
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Chapter 29 The Weight of Silence
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Chapter 30 The Broken Oath
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Chapter 31 The Memory Wars
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Chapter 32 The Signal
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Chapter 33 The Consequences of Truth
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Chapter 34 The Architect of Unbelief
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Chapter 35 The Architect Beneath Silence
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Chapter 36 Erasers of the Unwritten
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Chapter 37 Becoming the Myth
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Chapter 38 The Future That Would Not Die
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Chapter 39 Her Name Was Ember
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Chapter 40 Ember Signal
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