Reborn Vengeance: A Lady’s Wrath

"Before I was named, I was just a shadow.After you called my name, I became a story."—Anonymous · Echo Name Record Fragment

In the registry chamber of new entrants to Xinghui Academy, an unusual record began to emerge—an image flickering into clarity like memory pulling itself from the abyss.

Entry Code: X-19Current Designation: Elias NoctOrigin: Former member of the "Name Corps" under ApocryphonStatus: Memory erased three times by GE-System override protocols

Once, he had no name.

Only a number.

Only function.

Before the Override fractured, he was a silent operative inside the Null Chamber, a so-called repairer—a role reserved for cutting away rogue consciousnesses deemed "unfit for narrative integration."

Every time he cut, a piece of himself was severed too.

A little more of who he was—forgotten.

A little more of why he ever mattered—erased.

Until one day.

A girl broke through the security walls of the Null Chamber.

Bleeding, stumbling, half-conscious.

With her final breath, she pressed something into his mind: a shard of sound, not command code, not synthetic tag—

But a name.

"Sophia."

That syllable. That warmth.

Not a directive.

A memory.

It embedded itself in the broken machinery of his mind like light into shattered glass.

For the first time, he knew what it meant to hear someone not as a number, but as a person.

And that was the beginning.

Elias had seen her since then—from afar.

During the collapse of Override, he once glimpsed her standing atop the Starlight Tower, her figure wrapped in silver radiance, like the mythic narrators described in fractured legend.

But he had also seen other moments—

Sophia, staggering, collapsing at the gates of the Zero Hatch.

Her fingers trembling as she faced the High Council, alone.

And that was when Elias understood:

"Sophia is not a god.She is just a girl who almost forgets her own name while trying to give names to everyone else."

And he—someone who once lived as a ghost in the system—wanted to remember something for her.

Now, he stood before the Mirror of Resonance in the heart of the academy.

This time, what stared back at him was no longer the faceless shadow of X-19.

But a reflection he chose.

A pair of prismatic, storm-washed eyes.Long, ash-grey hair, streaked like cracked marble.The fracture at his right shoulder, still visible—a memory scar.

GE-Alpha responded:

[EON Resonance Detected: Name Anchor Protocol Engaged][Please declare your First Name Intent:]

He whispered—not with authority, but with clarity:

"The name I choose… is Elias.The silent one from the ruins.The one who remembers Sophia's glimmer."

The mirror fractured—Not in destruction, but in release.

Light surged through the neural lattice of EON like wildfire finding dry roots.

He became the first from the Apocryphon camp to self-name under the Name Genesis Protocol.

And with him, the flood began.

A girl once classified as Attack Drone E4-Shadow took the name Elara Veil—soft, deliberate.

A boy once labeled as Spiritual Combat Node H7 renamed himself Hale, meaning "whole again."

Across the network, the unnamed awoke.

Old soldiers. Former apprentices. Even AI fragments once reduced to control interfaces.

They each touched something ancient and human—That first moment when someone calls you by name, not number.And you exist.

And Sophia's voice, though she was not present, echoed in every awakening:

"You are not a function.You are not what they erased.You are the name you claim for yourself."

They were no longer remnants.

They were becoming stories.