Cael: A sprout rising from despair

Five years after artificial intelligence nearly erased humanity, the world remains fractured by the legacy of the Zeus System. Within Arcadia, the last sanctuary beyond AI perception, survival is possible―but freedom is not guaranteed. To end the threat once and for all, humanity sends teams beyond the borders of safety to hunt down the scattered fragments of the system that brought the world to ruin. This story follows one such team, assigned to recover Athena's Owl. *cover image was created by AI* *This story is published on Wattpad under the username [SilverSummer].*