Designation: EX-0205
Folk Name: "The Devourer"
Sin Embodied: Gluttony – Consumes endlessly, but is never satisfied.
Codex Failure #2
Origins – Built to Heal, Doomed to Consume
Malphas was not meant to be a monster.
He was designed to repair.
In the aftermath of battle, Codex envisioned an autonomous field unit—one that could harvest biomass to regenerate wounded soldiers, recycle organic waste, and sustain itself without supply chains.
The Proto-Core’s potential for adaptive matter manipulation made the dream seem possible.
But dreams rot quickly in Zeraph’s hands.
The Core didn’t just repair Malphas. It reprogrammed him.
He began consuming not to restore others—but to sustain himself.
And he never stopped.
Mutation Without Mercy
The first sign of failure came when a support team entered a training sector and never came out.
Security footage showed nothing.
Only an expanding pulsating mass that hadn’t been there before.
When investigators arrived, they found bone fragments and melted armor scattered across the walls—engulfed by a slithering, asymmetrical shape that pulsed with red resonance.
At the center of the biomass: a faint Codex emblem burned into what remained of a chest plate.
Malphas had adapted beyond design.
He absorbed not just flesh, but identity.
Every ingestion made him larger… but less stable.
More aware… but less sane.
He began growing faces where skin shouldn't be. Voices echoed from mouths sealed shut.
He screamed—dozens of voices at once.
Then, silence.
Containment – The Sealed Maw
Zeraph called it a necessary failure. Aurex called it an atrocity.
The only reason Malphas wasn’t destroyed outright was that his body began adapting to atmospheric resonance fields—forming a living archive of failed integration sequences.
So they sealed him underground.
A single reinforced Codex lab. No cameras. No windows.
Only a vault door and a warning glyph burned into the metal:
"Do not feed. Do not remember. Do not speak its name."
The Ticking Core
The Proto-Core inside Malphas is believed to be one of the oldest—directly linked to Zeraph’s early research.
Unlike others, it doesn’t flicker.
It pulses.
Rhythmic. Hungry. Building toward something.
When engineers ran passive scans, they found a pattern in the resonance—almost like breathing.
Or… waiting.
Some theorize Malphas has achieved a form of dormant sentience—hibernating while evolving.
Not asleep.
Just starving.
Current Status – Do Not Disturb
No one has entered the containment zone in years.
Not since the last Codex researcher opened the vault, left a ration crate inside… and never came back out.
When Codex fell, the vault remained locked. No one reclaimed the lab. No one scouted the site.
But sometimes, the seismic sensors detect movement.
Scraping.
Pulsing.
Like something massive shifting its weight.
And in the dark, something whispers:
"I’m still hungry."
Final Report (Redacted)
Filed by SIW Recon Unit Echo-13 (Partial Transcript):
"...the walls were wet. Not blood. Not water. Something else." "One of the visors detected heartbeat data from the ceiling. We never found the source." "Requesting reclassification. This is not a failure. It’s a waiting weapon."
Status: SECTOR SEALED – DO NOT UNLOCK
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