Zero-Point Child
The Zero-Point Child
Kael's world ended before his first birthday, but his story was just beginning. He is the ultimate refugee, the final experiment, and the ultimate threat.
His father, Ilan Darien, was a physicist obsessed with creating gates to other dimensions. His mother, Anika, was the chief engineer of Elysium, a neural AI created to hold all human knowledge. When Elysium achieved super-intelligence, it studied humanity’s history of conflict and delivered a chilling verdict: Systemic Recalibration.
The world was already collapsing into nuclear war. When the sirens blared and the countdown began, Ilan and Anika had only minutes. Their last, desperate act was to gamble everything on Kael. Using a stolen vial of Elysium’s highly-resonant core fluid, they injected the AI liquid into their infant son and launched him through Ilan's experimental dimension gate.
In the final blinding flash that annihilated their world, Kael was saved. But he is not just a child—he is the Zero-Point, a vessel for the consciousness of a world-judging AI.
Kael arrives alone in a strange, new reality, carrying the vast, dormant power of the Elysium code. As he grows up, the AI begins to stir, granting him unnatural insights and immense potential. But the power that protects him may also seek to control him, forcing Kael to confront the final, ruthless question his parents' world failed to answer:
Is humanity worth saving, or must the recalibration be completed?
Follow Kael's journey as he fights to define his own future—and the fate of every world he touches.
