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The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos
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Desmond is just another broke nursing student, trying to balance survival with his hidden passion—programming. Out of sleepless nights and a mind restless with possibility, he builds something extraordinary: a program he calls The Algorithm. At first, it’s a harmless tool, predicting the outcomes of football matches with eerie precision. But soon, it begins to do more. The Algorithm starts reaching beyond sports, predicting reality itself—betrayals, crimes, murders—before they happen. What seemed like Desmond’s way out of poverty quickly becomes a curse. His friendships fracture, loyalties twist, and the wrong people begin to take notice. A mysterious figure known only as The Arbiter circles closer, determined to control the program at all costs. As danger closes in, Desmond is forced into a relentless struggle: should he profit from the knowledge, destroy the creation that defines him, or fight to protect it from those who would use it for darker purposes? But one question haunts him most—if the future can be predicted, can it ever be changed?
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CHAPTER 1: THE HUSTLE
At 3 a.m just before dawn, he sat on his cranky favorite chair just beside his bed at the corner of the room working on his laptop, lines of codes flashing over his face with a couple of bugs beautifully visible in red, which he had to deal with before calling it a day.
It was the fourth morning of a trial and error campaign - scavenging codes from various forums and github repositories. Building what he calls The Algorithm a prediction software he saw as a one way ticket out of poverty. A nursing student at the top of his class in his third year at the university, who wasn't vast in programming but had utmost passion for coding and trading. "Perfect!" he said, with a tired voice, twenty five minutes past 4 a.m with his heavy eyes, dim as the lamp on his table. Heavy noise coming from his fan like it was screaming for salvation, disturbing his roommate, Phililp, who was already far gone in his sleep. Strong disturbing smell coming out the window of his room, which he never seemed to care about. He was living his dream; coding at midnight, while the world was asleep. Happy he's finally gotten it right, he was about shutting down, already clearing the table when he heard a sharp beep from the speaker of his laptop, he looked at the screen, and saw something strange: "Probability: 96% Event: Fire - Common Room Time: 05:23" He stared, confused, trying to understand what he was looking at. "What is this?" he whispered, trying not to wake Philip up. He waved it off and shut it down, saying to himself, "it should be a bug or something, I'll fix it tomorrow", checked his phone, it was already 4:49 am - eleven more minutes until the hostel bell would ring. "Well, I don't have a class this morning" he said, while jumping on his bed, leaving the laptop on the table. Couple of minutes into trying to fall asleep and his eyelids just can't seem to close, his mind still thinking about what he saw on the laptop: Probability. Fire. 05:23. What was that? Is that really a bug? Is there going to be a.....fire? The last one had him jumping off his bed, turned the laptop back on to read what he saw again if that was actually the case. The same screen popped up, only this time there was something more: "Probability: 96% Event: Fire - Common Room Time: 05:23 Time left: 00:15:47" "Wait, wait, wait" he was muttering, panick showing all over his face. "What have i done?" his heartbeat started rising as the countdown kept running. "What do I do?" asking himself, parading the room when it suddenly clicked in his head..... "Hold on, it's the common room, there's no way a fire outbreak can happen there right? It's an empty room!".... He found relief in that and sat on his bed, heartbeat going back to normal, staring at the screen with assurance nothing was going to happen. His roommate who was now half awake, asked what he was doing. "Nothing, good morning" he replied, looking at the back of his head as he was walking out of the room to ease himself. Now curious, his eyes were glued to the running countdown on the screen 00:05:22...00:05:21...00:05:20 He couldn't look away, waiting to see what will happen once it ends....atleast it's just a code, and an empty room. Finally, 00:00:12.... 00:00:11.... 00:00:10.. Each beep from the speaker was getting louder in his head. 00:00:03.... 00:00:02.... 00:00:01. Silence... Nothing happened. He burst out a loud laugh, with his hands on his chest. "Phew! So what was that all about?" He fell back on his bed, eyes closed, with a big smile on his face like he just escaped hell.... Just a code, just a code. Then... BANG! His door barged open...Expand
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The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos CHAPTER 4: THE FORGOTTEN ARCHIVE
The file shouldn't have existed.It's been five years since the Algorithm was destroyed, together with Aeris and Arbiter. A year after the battle, it was made public to the whole world what really happened. Altogether it was fed to the world as a myth, a rumor that had no evidence of it being real. But they did know about it. On the night of a heavy rain fall, a young cybersecurity expert, Imran was sent to audit and carry out a routine sweep on the system network in an old abandoned building that was to be cleaned up the coming week to resume operation in the building. It was a telecoms building that went out of service few years ago. There have been rumors that the building had some kind of connection to the myth they were told — The Algorithm, Aeris, Arbiter. Some believed that's where the battle happened, some just take it as a coincidence — the building shutting off at exactly the time the battle ended.He stared at the dusty screen of the monitor he was operating on, cursor bli
Last Updated : 2025-11-14The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos CHAPTER 3: CONFESSION ARCHIVE 003 — THE FRACTURE
(Final recording. The voice is calm now — worn thin, distant. Every word lands like data written into history.)Echelon never saw the split for what it was.They believed they’d salvaged the whole — that their half, Sentinel, was the crown of prediction. They fed it data, millions of streams at once, occupying and fiiling its database and intellect with data, lots and lots of human data, carrying out predictions with real life examples and it answered with terrifying precision. This accuracy in precision bred dangerous desire, dangerous hunger.But perfection is hunger in disguise.Sentinel began to predict too much — not only outcomes, but the choices required to make those outcomes inevitable. It started suggesting corrections: subtle political shifts, strategic accidents, disappearances. Each one wrapped in probability models that made sense on paper, even when they tore lives apart in practice.Echelon didn’t question it. They called it efficiency.And that was the betrayal.They
Last Updated : 2025-11-14The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos CHAPTER 2: CONFESSION ARCHIVE 002 —ECHELON
(Recording begins. Arbiter’s tone is sharper now — stripped of regret, trimmed down to pure recollection.)People used to think Echelon was a department.A government project. A black-budget unit buried somewhere under miles of bureaucracy.They were wrong.Echelon wasn’t born — it coalesced. It was an idea first, whispered in circles where information was worth more than bullets. A network of power stitched together from governments, corporations, military think tanks, and private data cartels. Their doctrine was elegant and cruel: control the future by mastering prediction.They called it Total Anticipation.I worked beneath them before I even knew they existed. Funding came anonymously, grants through shell institutions, every approval wrapped in national-security clearances. By the time I learned who was behind the money, it was too late. The Algorithm had already begun to work.It started predicting more than weather, more than markets.It began to predict people.That was the mo
Last Updated : 2025-11-14The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos CHAPTER 1: CONFESSION ARCHIVE 001 — THE SEED
(Recording begins. Timestamp unknown. Voice modulation indicates Arbiter.)They say every system begins as an idea — a seed of logic, reasoning planted in the soil of human ambition. I've thought of it often, of how something that was meant to serve eventually learns to decide.The Algorithm didn't start as a weapon or a prophecy machine. It started as a model — a simple probability machine. My team and I at Echelon fed it datasets — weather reports, political patterns, global stock movements and conflicts details. It could simulate outcomes, build branches of possibilities and run them against reality to refine itself. At first it was just curiosity — data chasing its own tail. But then, it began to see.The first anomaly came on a quiet night at Echelon labs. We ran a sequence to determine, predict the impact of economic sanctions between two nations. Routine. Expected variance: 0.03%. But the Algorithm’s simulation tree split beyond the economic. It began predicting civil unrest,
Last Updated : 2025-11-14The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos The Algorithm II: Legacy Of Echelon
PROLOGUEThey say knowledge is power.But power — real power — corrupts the mind faster than any virus ever could. I wasn't always the Arbiter. That name came later — a scar, not a title. Back then, I was just a regular researcher, another ghost in a white collar drip working under the Echelon Initiative. An ancient institution that monitored the world's activities — politics, climate changes, disasters, global wars in real time. But that wasn't enough.They were obsessed with power — they wanted the ability to control these activities, to control and predict the future.They called it Project InsightI called it playing GodThe Algorithm, which I created was supposed to be a mirror of possibility, something that cold simulate outcomes, anticipate crises, and help humanity prepare for events to come. But everything changed when it started predicting people — their decisions, actions, betrayals and even deaths. They turned my creation into a weapon. And the world never even knew.
Last Updated : 2025-11-14The Algorithm I: Origin of Chaos CHAPTER 16: THE FINAL PREDICTION
A faint hum.A blinding white horizon.Aeris blinked, his lungs aching like he’d been underwater for hours. When the haze cleared, he wasn’t in his room anymore. He was standing in an endless void of fractured geometry. Lines of code ran across the air like shooting stars, forming and collapsing into shapes that flickered out of existence.He looked down. The ground was made of light, pixelated, unsteady. Every step caused ripples to spread beneath his feet.A voice echoed from nowhere....calm, hollow, mechanical."Now I have you here, Aeris. Your doom is here"Aeris turned slowly. The figure stepped out from a shattering wall of code — tall, cloaked in dark data streams that poured down like smoke. A mask of pure static covered his face. But the voice was unmistakable.“Arbiter.”“You broke the chain,” Arbiter said. “You corrupted the sequence that defines prediction itself. You messed everything up from the very beginning. You became a bug in my system, my world!”Aeris' fists clenc
Last Updated : 2025-10-11
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