Before the fall, there was a choice. Before the monsters, there was a man.

In the shadow of Mount Banahaw, deep beneath the soil, Dr. Rhane Wu—last in the bloodline of Dr. Henry Wu—awakens a system that was never meant to be touched.

The Codex Prime was designed to archive life.
Rhane rewires it to replace evolution.

Buried in sealed tanks are hybrids, twisted fusions of predator and anomaly. Among them lies XENOVORAX, still sleeping—still dreaming.

But the jungle remembers.
And so does JIRUUN—a Warden-class entity born not from man, but from something older. Something watching.

As global systems blink out, genetic failsafes rupture, and ARKHIVE prepares for a new host, Rhane records one final Codex entry.

“We tried to resurrect the past. But the future had teeth.”

This is not a tale of redemption.
This is the prelude to extinction.


“The world didn’t end with man. It began after him.”

The world thought it buried its monsters.


That if it drowned them deep enough, locked them far enough, silenced them long enough—they'd stay gone.


This is the end of Volume 0: The Womb's Bastard.


We built this volume to be a slow eruption:


A bastard child of extinction and obsession


And the Codex — waiting in silence for a worthy host


Now, Kael has survived the first judgment.


🩸 Up Next: Book 1 — Kingdoms of the Broken Gene


Not just between man and hybrid, but hybrid versus hybrid.


Kingdoms will rise — forged not from metal and stone, but from DNA, memory, and conquest.


He will become something the old world fears.


The Womb cracked. The Codex whispered. Now comes the war of echoes.


Thanks for seeing the spark in this beast with us.


Author's note end of volume 0 +What's next