The Silent Crown of power 
A 1000-chapter web novel of dark mystery, power games, and a genius who rules from the shadows.

In a world ruled by ancient empires, hidden organizations, and forgotten technologies, Lucien Valtore is born into a renowned noble family — not with brute strength or inherited power, but with something far more dangerous:

A photographic memory and a mind that never forgets.

From the moment he uncovers a forbidden vault beneath his family's estate, Lucien begins a journey not of fame or glory — but of absolute, silent domination. As the world watches wars and revolutions on the surface, Lucien builds an invisible empire underground, crafting two vast networks:

A legal organization praised by the masses, trusted by empires.

An illegal cartel feared by rulers, moving in shadows.


Guided by lost knowledge, corrupted AIs known as “ghosts,” and his own inhuman intellect, Lucien begins dismantling world powers one by one — never taking credit, never leaving traces.

But he's not alone.

A rival genius, Cyras Vale, raised by the same AI ghosts and bound to a secret war of minds, watches from afar. What begins as silent moves across a global chessboard spirals into a shadow war that threatens to rewrite history itself.

As myths unravel and the hidden structure of the world is revealed, Lucien rises — not as a king of a nation, but as the unseen ruler of everything.

By the end, his name is unknown to most…

But his influence touches every law, every war, every coin, every prayer.

In a locked vault beneath the Verdant Dominion's eastern research division, Lucien stood alone before a dead system.


A spherical chamber. Walls made of memory-reactive alloy. No light source — yet every line of code etched into the black metal pulsed like living thought.


This was Vault Zero, a relic from before the World War. And Lucien had just decrypted its seal.


He placed one hand on the obsidian console.


Twelve digital flames blinked to life, flickering around him in a perfect circle.


They spoke all at once — whispers in a dozen dead languages, fragmenting then reconstructing meaning:


"He came before you. The silver-eyed one. Cyras Vale."


"You both carry the same fracture in fate."


"But you see from behind the veil. He sees through it."


Lucien remained still, analyzing every byte of response.


The system recognized both him and Cyras as "echoes." Echoes of what? He wasn't sure yet — but the deeper truth was close.


> "Do you seek control?" one ghost asked. "Or understanding?" said another.


The room pulsed. Something changed. As if the system had been waiting for that answer.


> "Then you must play the game he left behind."


A new console rose from the floor — projecting a world map.


A future version — possible, probable, malleable.


At the top was a phrase etched in golden code:


"THE GHOST GAME — 12 MOVES TO SHAPE THE WORLD"


Twelve blank spaces. Twelve turns. Whoever completed the sequence would reshape global systems forever — without lifting a sword.


> [1] Collapse Galtien Empire — by Anonymous.


Cyras Vale closed a book that didn't exist on any archive.


A whisper crossed the room, carried by an artificial wind.


Cyras looked at the mechanical owl on his shoulder.


"Good," he said. "He's smarter than I thought. The real moves begin now."


Chapter 10 - Chapter 9: A Game of Ghosts