The Gilded Cage Falls

Griddy Hunter-Bounty believes he is Le Baobab Indéracinable - The Unshakeable Baobab. He has built a trillion-dollar AI empire on the ruthless creed of 'Completeness', reducing the universe to a machine of predictable parts and treating human connection as a systemic vulnerability. But Griddy's fortress of solitude is a Black Box: a logic too dense to be audited and a personal cage designed to obscure his own unshakeable internal fragility. When he enters The Apex Protocol, a high-stakes co...