in chapter 6.3, sati has been kidnapped by the general's commandos after a lengthy observation, with seraph attempting to rescue her, only to end up falling into the river. in chapter 7.1, it was revealed that seraph has managed to swim out of the river, but has been altered as a result of the disposal of the cheat codes of the unlimited chapter by agents into the aqueduct. he attacked various red pills and blue pills, absorbing, altering, or deleting something within their code. this has recently been revealed to be releasing the attacked individuals from an overwritten personality by the machines, much like agent smith overwrote bane and others in "reloaded" and "revolutions". his most significant target was cryptos, leader of the cypherite faction, in which he unsuccessfully removed over a year's worth of reprogramming. cryptos eventually settled into a mixture of his former, radical anti-machine personality and his calmer, passive self.