#40 Sacrifice Protocol

Drax’s projected Nightmares arrive.

Identical…

Universal…

Unavoidable.

Every sleeper entered the same landscape.

The same forest. The same shadow. The same mask.

Millions wake, screaming.

Mind terror. Pure.

Hospitals overflowed. Entire cities stopped functioning.

No one understood why.

Then investigators discovered something impossible. The nightmare contained code.

Embedded within memory.

Hidden inside fear itself.

When decoded, the fragments formed a message.

Not a threat.

A confession.

Drax had built the Nightmare Projector using his own neural architecture.

Every simulation.

Every terror.

Every psychological weapon, powered by his consciousness.

The machine was feeding.

Destroying minds.

He knew it would.

He built it anyway.

To expose humanity to itself.

To force the species to confront the darkness it spent centuries denying.

While the world cursed his name, Drax continued to dissolve within his own machine.

His body dying.

His mind fragmenting.

His identity sacrificed for the project.

History would remember him as a monster.

But he had already accepted the cost.

Drax is reborn….his own sacrifice.