"Nihilists? What are they?"
John's question hung in the air of the outpost, but internally, his mind was already racing ahead, connecting dots that had been blurred for far too long.
He suddenly realised something glaring. Between the Architects, who sought to preserve the status quo of Athanasia, and the Evolutionists, who wanted to democratise the power of the Mental Processing, there wasn't a single group of Paragons that matched the root cause of what had happened to him.
Neither of those two factions would have a logical reason to cooperate with the machines, engage in shady stuff, or reach back into the past to bring someone like him to infiltrate the game.
The Architects were too obsessed with their own rigid order, and the Evolutionists were too focused on their equality crusade.
