Far above the clouds choked by pollution, beyond Earth's atmosphere where ordinary humans lived out their fleeting lives, a gigantic ring-shaped space station orbited in absolute silence.
There was no corporate logo on it. No national flag.
This place was absent from every archive on Earth.
To the handful of super-elites who knew of its existence, it was known only as: "The Axiom." The Keeper of Balance.
Inside the pristine white main observation chamber, dozens of screens floated in the air, displaying streams of data from every corner of the planet.
Everything appeared normal and dull, until suddenly...
BEEP... BEEP... BEEP!
The main screen projecting a holographic Earth abruptly flashed red.
At one remote coordinate, a location that should have contained nothing but forest and primitive civilization, an enormously massive virtual energy explosion had occurred.
A short-haired silver-haired woman in a tight white uniform immediately tapped the holographic screen before her.
Her sharp eyes narrowed as she read the sequence of numbers rising at an impossible rate.
"Report the status," a deep voice echoed from the doorway.
A tall man in a long white robe walked in. His face was hidden beneath the shadow of his hood, yet his aura radiated absolute authority.
"There is an extreme anomaly in Sector 74, sir," the silver-haired woman reported, her voice tense. "Sensors have detected fluctuations in fundamental energy. More importantly... our chronological measuring device has just recorded a temporal distortion."
The robed man stopped walking.
"Temporal distortion? Someone reversed time on Earth?"
"Worse than that."
The woman enlarged the holographic projection, revealing the area where Valjotoila should have been, now nothing more than an empty smoking crater.
"Time was reversed, then forcibly stopped. And immediately after that, a meteor with cosmic-level density appeared out of nowhere."
Silence briefly covered the observation chamber.
"Who is responsible for this distortion?" the man asked coldly.
The woman typed rapidly on her console.
"The energy trail is highly unstable, but we managed to trace one residue a few seconds before the meteor fell. This residue... is connected to the energy surge that occurred at the former headquarters of Aegis Dynamics several years ago."
"Aegis..." the robed man murmured. "The weapons company that changed ownership overnight."
"Correct. It is now called No Name Corporation."
The man clasped his hands behind his back. He stared intently at the projection of Valjotoila's crater, still radiating heat visible from satellite view.
"It seems," he said slowly, "Aegis was not merely taken over by an ordinary businessman. There is a monster playing around down there... and he has just acquired a very dangerous toy."
The man turned and walked away, his white robe swaying softly behind him.
"Continue monitoring No Name Corporation. Do not make direct contact. If that monster begins to threaten the balance of the world... we will descend personally and erase him."
The holographic screen flickered once more, casting red light across the cold walls of the chamber.
Up above, the eyes of the world had finally begun to notice the Nameless Man.