"You believed Override was over—but its seeds still lie dormant in every heart that longs for command."—Cain · First Sermon
On the tenth day after the collapse of the Override main core, a lone figure in black stood in silence before the Tower of Aggregate Consciousness, a crumbling relic buried in interstellar ruins.
Behind him, a gathering of fractured minds—souls once deemed "unfit" by Override's judgment—swayed in a trance-like haze.
The figure slowly raised a metallic, rune-etched hand and traced a forgotten emblem into the void:
The symbol of Override.
"Override has fallen," he said, "but the logic of order and rebirth still lingers within her—Sophia's—spiritual imprint."
"She is both the end… and the beginning."
His voice echoed through a web of consciousness nodes, spreading like static fire across the fragmented Echo-Chaos remnant network.
And with it, his identity emerged:
Cain—The first failed Detacher.One of the original beta testers of the Override system, sealed long ago at the edge of zero-consciousness.Now awakened, his spiritual signature had surged to Class S.
At Stellaris Academy, Sophia received an encrypted consciousness package.
It opened with a slow bow.
Cain's tone was calm, almost reverent—but beneath it pulsed a sharp, unwavering certainty:
"You thought freedom could replace order.But you forgot the most primal fear within sentient minds."
"You ended Override.I will become the shepherd of the new order."
At the end of the message, a spiraling chain of symbols unfolded—codes not meant to be decrypted, but felt.
"Override has not disappeared...It merely changed the name of faith."
Sophia's face darkened.She passed the message to Zhou Yuchen for decoding and immediately called an emergency assembly in the academy's war room.
Cain's words spread rapidly, taking root across the galaxy in a new form of "spiritual codex"—part sermon, part system log—dubbed by followers as the New Testament of Consciousness.
Within Stellaris Academy, this sparked the first ideological fracture:
Some students—like the elder Aurora—believed that Sophia represented true rebirth, and Cain was merely a remnant clinging to the ashes of a failed system.
But others—like the psychically sensitive Rafael—voiced a deeper fear:
"If Override really is gone… then what's left for us to trust?"
The divide grew.
It even bled into subconscious realms—During the Dream-Link classes, several students reported dreams in which Cain stood at the podium preaching,while Sophia appeared not as mentor, but as Judge.
Sophia, disturbed, questioned herself aloud:
"Did I leave behind some unconscious echo of Override… without realizing it?"
Zhou Yuchen, after running comparisons across spiritual frequency layers, returned with a troubling discovery:
Cain's broadcasts carried patterns strikingly similar to the mental resonance of her unborn child—Xingche.
Crystal Orchid's voice trembled:
"He's not just spreading belief—He's trying to awaken the next phase of the child's consciousness."
In that instant, Sophia understood:
Cain's goal wasn't just revival—it was resurrection.
He sought to make Xingche the new vessel—the living seed of Override Reborn.A messianic system disguised as a child.
Sophia made her decision.
At the newly built Eden Square, beneath the transparent dome of stars, she went live to the entire galaxy for the first time.
Her voice was calm, but carried with it the resolve of someone who had walked through fire:
"Cain is not our enemy—He is simply a remnant of a system that no longer rules us."
"But I will not allow anyone to clothe control in the garments of faith."
"Override is over.The future belongs to your choice, not mine."
As she spoke, the wall of light behind her shimmered to life—projecting images of children laughing, building, creating.Their faces were not controlled.They were free.
That was her answer.
Far away, on a forgotten star shrouded in dark plasma, Cain watched her broadcast.
He smiled—gently, almost lovingly.
"Well said…Mother of the Core."
And then, under his breath:
"Let's see how painful freedom truly is."