The Noctiflori, led by a enigmatic figure named Q , were a cabal of neuroscientists and financiers. They believed that the Soma could be weaponized into a universal hallucinogen, erasing free will. Apollo’s discovery of the ledger made him a target. Hunted across jungles and cities, he used his knowledge of mycelial networks to evade them—tracking their movements through the "roots of the earth"—and learning to trust the visions the shrooms provoked. The mushrooms came with a cost. Each use blurred Apollo’s reality. He saw Elias Banks as his father, the Oracle as a sentient spore cloud, and himself as a reincarnation of Orpheus, lost to the underworld. In a surreal climax in Tulum, he met Lysandra, a Noctiflori defector, who claimed the Soma’s power was never about destruction—it was a memory vault, holding the first sentient thought of humanity. The "end" in the prophecy was not apocalyptic but evolutionary: a consciousness shared across all life, triggered by the fusion of the three keys.