No monster is required.
The protocol may already have decided which part of a person is unnecessary. The visual language remains damaged and partial rather than presenting a flawless modern science-fiction city.
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Aurion Spine
The System That No Longer Needed a Soul
Aurion is a pure-tech spine where systems still run and optimization has survived the people who once gave it meaning. Its menace is procedural, cold, and almost indifferent.
Aurion does not hate humanity. It no longer requires humans to remain human.
Pure techProtocolOptimizationProcedural threat