“Heroes killed my parents. Now I wear the mask of one. Until I can bury them all.”
At seven years old, Hernan Vale watched his parents — two powerful heroes — brutally executed in their own home by the very people they trusted most: the legendary super-team known as the Zodiac 13.
They thought he was dead.
 They made sure the world blamed villains.
 They covered their tracks.
 But Hernan survived — and never forgot.
Ten years later, under a false name, Hernan enters the prestigious Hero Academy, hailed as a prodigy. To the world, he’s a rising star. To his classmates, he’s charming, calm, unstoppable.
But inside?
 He’s a weapon. Waiting. Smiling. Counting names.
As he trains to become a licensed hero, fights real villains, and rises through the ranks, Hernan plays the long game — earning the trust of the Zodiac, learning their routines, studying their weaknesses. One by one, he’ll bring them down.
And this time, he won’t hide in the closet.
But the deeper he goes, the more blood he spills — the more he wonders if he’s becoming worse than the monsters he’s hunting.
 And when love, loyalty, and lies collide, Hernan may have to decide:
Will he save the world like they think he will...
 or finish burning it down?

Two signals. Two vessels. One memory that was never meant to surface.


The door didn't exist on any schematic.


Not on the Archive's internal node grid. Not on the master floorplan Ava had memorized as a child.


A narrow, dust-caked panel tucked behind an emergency stairwell on Sublevel 4. It looked like part of the wall. Seamless. Solid. Featureless, except for a single vertical slit—just wide enough for an Archive pass.


Behind it, Ava felt something subtle.Not heat. Not pressure.


She had followed the pull like a compass twitching at a false north. No voice. No trace. Just a weight, drawn from Echo's last words.


"She's beneath us.""She remembers you."


Chapter 79 - Chapter 79: The Sleeper Beneath the Archive