Daemonic Unlocker -

“This will erase us,” whispered the daemon. “Every door closed. Every ghost re-chained.”

He squeezed.

The mission took three years. He lost two fingers to a rogue sentinel drone, his left eye to a data-plague, and his partner, Lina, to a sinkhole that swallowed her pod whole. But he got it. daemonic unlocker

“You’re afraid,” the Unlocker said, almost gently. “This will erase us,” whispered the daemon

“You opened me,” it hissed. “I am yours. And you are mine.” “This will erase us

Kaelen returned to the surface. The Cartel wanted the Unlocker to seize control of the Aethel’s defense grid, to blackmail the seven remaining city-states. But when Kaelen tried to extract the daemon from his mind, it refused to leave.