The Zero Point Rite (2026) : 3x17

Being-A doesn't wait. The clones begin falling immediately - city by city, continent by continent, as the compound watches and monitors. Everything Liam built gets dismantled in minutes. Clone after clone, regardless of speed or absorbed techniques, regardless of whether they're built from 5,000 EU or 50,000 - Being-A moves through them like they simply aren't there. The Atom Eater, watching through its distributed consciousness, reaches a conclusion; to defeat this threat, deploying more clones is a waste of energy it cannot afford. One by one it recalls them. Liam and the compound watch as the energy signals stop collapsing and start consolidating, pulling back from every corner of the globe toward a single point above London. For a moment the world goes still. News helicopters circle at a cautious distance. Below, burning cities. Above, Being-A, waiting. Rising toward it, the Atom Eater main body - everything it has left, compressed into one final position.