Dustborn 4271 accidentally uncovered a cloning factory in the Lighthouse’s lower levels. With the numbered Lighthouse Code in hand, he began his escape. Meanwhile, the Wilderness Hunters led by Mark discovered the ultimate proof of the ASH Project in the B-17 ruins: a set of holographic recordings documenting “deliberate human mutation experiments.” The two fates converged beneath a blood-red dawn, revealing three cruel truths:
The Devourers were the first soldiers to volunteer for ASH enhancement.
The Lighthouse’s power core was actually a suppressor for the Mana Ecology.
All Upper Citizens carried a self-destruct gene that caused them to die automatically at the age of twenty-five.
