Born as a mindless clone in a high-tech metropolis, Subject 198 knew nothing but endless labor and silent agony. Upon his death, a mysterious pact with Malakar—the God of Contracts and Deceit—grants him a rebirth. The god promises him a whole, flawless soul with real emotions.But the price of a complete soul is a broken v On the eve of his scheduled replacement, an invitation arrived from an eldritch technological deity of another realm—a dark pact. Should he help destroy this civilization, harvest the species' biomass, and etch sheer pain, despair, and fanatical fervor into the empire, Silas Thorne would be granted rebirth in the worlds under the deity's dominion upon his death. Accepting the covenant and wielding newfound powers, he overthrew the empire, conquered other worlds, and remade human education in its entirety. Yet, as a first-generation clone, Silas Thorne's lifespan was short. In his final days, having fulfilled every term of the agreement, he met the eldritch god once