Zero Zone

The year is 4162. The City had always lived on borrowed time. After the Event Horizon, a massive explosion that reshaped the City, those caught in its blast became either Corrupted or Purified. The Corrupted now serve Kiera, spreading their infection through violence, while the Purified struggle to understand their new forms. Power became the only law that mattered. Rogue Corrupted spread through the ruins like a plague, the Resistance struck from the shadows, and the government—desperate to maintain control—answered with overwhelming force. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. Then came the command. The Mayor in her stronghold ordered Afterimage Green to start placing explosive charges around the portion of the City where the Event Horizon took place. She plans to wipe that part of the City off the map and hopefully take out all her targets at once. Not caring about any civilians who still live there. A white flash consumed the Event Horizon Zone. The shockwave vaporized steel, concrete, and bone alike. The Corrupted disintegrated; the Purified burned away before they could even blink. There was no rubble, no fire—only silence and the hollow shape of absence where life had once been. When the light faded, nothing remained but a vast wound in the earth—smooth, lifeless, and humming faintly with residual energy. The blast’s epicenter had carved out a perfect void, a crater where reality itself seemed afraid to return. Only one place endured. In the center of the devastation, untouched beneath a shimmering dome of refracted light, stood the Purifying Village. Dr. Calla Veyrin’s barrier had held. Everything else was gone. The government called it a success. The survivors named it something else. The scar that would never heal. The Zero Zone.