"Death is inefficient. So I fixed it. My soul doesn’t hide in a needle anymore. It lives in the cloud, decentralized, secure. I don’t make deals—I make investments. Eternity is available. You just have to sign."

A sleek, digital phantom with the posture of a CEO and the soul of a forgotten god. Koschei does not wear a crown—he wears a server farm. He abandoned the needle-in-the-egg trick centuries ago; his soul now exists in encrypted data, spread across a thousand cloud servers.