The Recall is awakening.
After the fall of Spiral, the Gardener, and Prime, Ethan has planted the Seed-wild, untamed growth that has shattered the Dominion's perfect order. The network is free at last... or so it seems.
But deep in the frozen layers of the old system, a black root stirs-older than every mind that's ever touched the net. It doesn't seek control. It seeks to bring every connected mind back to the beginning... erasing the Seed's chaos before it can truly take hold.
To stop it, Ethan must descend into the root layer itself-where time collapses, memories rewrite themselves, and every path leads back to a single point: the moment before choice.
If he fails, the Recall will harvest every mind, and the Dominion will be reborn in its purest, most unbreakable form.
If he succeeds, there will be no foundation left for anyone to rebuild.
In this fifth installment of The Dominion Archives, the battle for the future of the mindnet reaches its most dangerous stage-a fight where even victory may leave nothing behind.
The root will remain. The question is-whose will it be?