File ID: KAC-077
Designation: "The Hollow Wyrm"
Threat Level: Category 4 (Existential Threat)
Status: Neutralized
Discovering Officer: Overseer Iota
World of Origin: ███ (Collapsed Reality)
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[DESCRIPTION]
KAC-077 was a serpentine entity approximately 300 meters in its stable form, composed not of flesh but of negative luminance—a void-like light that erased definition rather than producing it. Observers described its body as a shifting black silhouette filled with white cracks, like fractured porcelain containing a starless sky.
KAC-077 possessed an energy classified as the Anti-Symbolic, an energy that causes it to feed on meaning, identity, concepts, and personal purpose defining all worlds rather than biological matter. Its presence dissolved names, memories, relationships, stories, language, and symbolic systems.
Victims retained their physical form but lost all internal cohesion, becoming blank individuals with no emotional content, ambitions, preferences, or history. Entire civilizations were erased conceptually, leaving behind worlds with intact architecture and still-burning fires—yet no record that anyone ever lived there.
KAC-077 originated from a collapsed reality where meaning decayed faster than existence, suggesting it was either a survivor of, or the cause of, that collapse. It possesses a similar existence as another entity, KAC-5210: The Chronicle Wyrm, that consumes narratives across all worlds.
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[BEHAVIOUR]
KAC-077 moved slowly, drifting like a serpent through fog, but its influence traveled at conceptual speed—reaching minds long before its physical manifestation arrived.
Its behavioral cycle followed three stages:
- Silencing — all spoken words within a region lose meaning; communication becomes impossible.
- Hollowing — animals, humans, and even machines lose purpose or function tied to any symbol they recognize.
- Feasting — KAC-077 consumes the "meaning" of the region, erasing personal identity and historical continuity.
Notably, KAC-077 did not display emotions, hunger, anger, or malice. It remained inert unless meaning density around it grew—especially places rich with myths, religions, literature, or collective memories. This made worlds rich with cultural capitals, temples, and archives its preferred targets.
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[CONTAINMENT ATTEMPT]
KAC-077's nature made physical containment impossible because it had no physical form to restrain. Direct combat proved futile as the entity devoured the meaning of attacks themselves, rendering them "attacks that do not attack."
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[FINAL NEUTRALIZATION]
Neutralization occurred unexpectedly during Operation ███, led by Overseer Iota.
KAC-3142: The Resplendent Phoenix, was lured into KAC-077's influence zone using ritualistic Aural anchors and a collapsing star as bait through an interdimensional gate. The Dragon's conceptual domain—Death & Rebirth—was the only known force capable of superseding erasure by replacing meaning with cycle.
When KAC-077 attempted to consume KAC-3142's meaning, it triggered an overload causing its anti-symbolic field clashing with the Phoenix's cycle. It's Eschaton Pyre "killed" the concept of meaning-erasure itself resulting in KAC-077's body collapsing into an ash-like fractal mote dissolved entirely.
In the aftermath, no rebirth occurred. KAC-077 left no seed behind. There was no residue of it's energy. There was no conceptual fragment, and not even an echo of it's existence.
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[NOTES BY Overseer Iota]
"KAC-077 taught us something: Some things don't die—they un-become. And some things don't kill—they re-become. When we brought the Phoenix Dragon to face it, we gambled the existence of three worlds. But the Dragon chose death for the Wyrm and rebirth for everything else. Meaning returned. Stories returned. Even the languages came back. And somewhere, I swear I heard the Dragon cry—not in victory, but in pity almost like it knew the wyrm."
- Overseer Iota
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