The echo of the shattered Anchor hadn't even faded from the Ledgerverse when the next ripple began.
A new glyph appeared in Kairos' Sovereign Ledger—a dormant seal long thought lost to the cosmos. It shimmered in dull gold and iron-black, its shape jagged and uneven, almost as though resisting its own existence.
Arin's voice came over the bridge, shaky.
"Confirmation just hit the core systems. The Equilibrium Repositories are real. And one of them… just opened for you."
Kairos stared at the shifting glyph.
Its name was Vault X-4-Scarcity.
The Forbidden Vaults
The Equilibrium Repositories were whispered about in the dark corners of the Nexus Trade Network.
They were never officially mapped. Never sanctioned.Said to be caches of power too dangerous to register.
Each one tied to a different Anchored Law—sealed when the Anchors deemed the concepts too volatile for open market.
And among them, the most infamous… was the Vault of Scarcity.
