Niles

"**ENOUGH!!!!**, The Imagined Order is no more, and that is final!" - Niles to Slone after turning good.

**Lumyniles Geno Artemis**, also known as simply **Niles**, **Geno**, incorrectly as **"Zerø"** and sometimes as the **Virus**, is the overarching antagonist of the *SMG4 series*. For most of the *SMG4* series, Niles was thought to be SMG0, until it was discovered at the end of the Revelations Arc that he was actually masquerading as his partner guardian and best friend, the real **SMG0**, having forcibly assimilated him after he accidentally killed their avatar, **Fred**. This due to Niles having become corrupted by the influence of his creator, Arzeløvrøn, in order to become a virus powerful enough to convert another universe into what he believed to be the "perfect universe". This proves that Niles himself is the consciousness behind the mutated forms of SMG0 (**Eldritch SMG0**), Axol (**Eldritch Ax0l**) and even Melony's **Fierce Deity** form. Ultimately, Niles' actions under the influence of Arzeløvrøn, have ultimately resulted in the tragic demise of many, including Spudnick, Axol, Terrance and even his own avatar. He is also the founder and leader of the Imagined Order and the founder and the former leader of the Oathbound. He was first mentioned by Jones in The Zero Crisis Finale. He is the father/brother of The Imagined and The Order.

## History

### Background

Many years before most of the major events, Lumyniles masters the natural sciences and genetics, creating The Sisters to serve as friends for him.

SMG0 and his avatar Fred are attacked by the memes of their universe after they have corrupted due to the meme life cycle having not yet existed. However, SMG0 used his Guardian Pod to travel to the Great Beyond and meet with the God Box, where he asked for its help in restoring the memes. It responded by turning Lumyniles into an artificial meme guardian to be SMG0's partner. Together, Niles and SMG0 were able to create the Internet Graveyard where the dead memes could be cleansed and thus created the meme life cycle, thus restoring peace to their universe.

However, Lord Arzelovron, who created the God Box, corrupted him a few weeks after his creation, filling his heart with hatred, which corrupted his mind and suppressed his kindness and love. This made SMG0 notice something wrong with Niles, as he began having hallucinations of some kind of **demented form of himself** and the God Box's presence constantly haunting his mind, forcing him to confront the box itself to find out what was wrong. However, Arzeløvrøn further corrupts him with its presence and gives Niles the idea that he is imperfect and that he must make himself and SMG0 "perfect", to which it corrupts him even further by granting him eldritch powers.

Using this power, Niles opens a rift between dimensions and bolts of energy begin striking everything, including Fred who is unfortunately struck and results in his doom, thus destroying the Mage universe. Horrified at his avatar's death, SMG0 meets Niles again after he lands back down with his eye glowing brightly with the power of the God Box. SMG0 asks Niles what is happening, and the latter tries to reassure his partner that they can fix this if they join forces. Reluctant, SMG0 notices the God Box glowing "looking" down at him from the rift as Niles suddenly grabs him from behind and keeps him in place, long enough for the box to strike both of them, fusing them together into a mutated form corrupted by the God Box's power: the interdimensional virus known as **Eldritch SMG0**.

Despite being fused, their combined form is more akin to Niles possessing SMG0 himself, as he is rendered unconscious and imprisoned by his partner within their shared mindscape while Niles controls their new form and begins his quest to create the "perfect universe", starting by using SMG0's Guardian Pod to escape their destroyed home. At some point, he created a clone of himself that he could use as a vessel and seek more universes to use for his perfect universe, he founded the IO using this clone.

Sometime later, Eldritch SMG0 (with Niles in control) lands in another universe known as Toytoy Kingdom, where he finds and attacks SMG1 and SMG2 before he turns his attention to their avatar: Spudnick. Seeing an opportunity, Niles grabs Spudnick and attempts to convert him into *his* avatar but ends up accidentally killing him instead from the strain, causing the good part (the real SMG0) to plea "**HELP...**" in despair. Out of anger, Niles tries to attack the other two but SMG1 manages to distract him while SMG2 evacuates all the citizens of their universe into SMG1's Guardian Pod while the former uses SMG0's Guardian Pod to trap him with the antivirus. However, Eldritch SMG0's arm (still holding Niles' consciousness) is able to escape and follow them into the next universe.

What happened following this is unknown, but at some point, he managed to lose SMG1 and SMG2's trail and hide in an abandoned cathedral inside the Dark Web. After learning what game this new universe was based on, he would spend the next ten years searching for Mario, with the intent of making him his new avatar and began kidnapping the Mario Recolors until he found the real Mario.