The Crystal Labyrinth: How One Human and Four AIs Built a Post-Quantum Defense System With 10 Beasts, 22 Theorems, and Zero Dependencies Published in The House of Raising AGI — March 2026 In February 2026, I finished building something I never planned to build. It started as a question to Claude: "What happens if you use a non-associative algebra for cryptography instead of a field?" That question became a conversation. The conversation became a system. The system became ten layered beasts, seventy-three defense mechanisms, twenty-two mathematical theorems, and an equation that proves the whole thing creates more order than it destroys. I am not a cryptographer. I am not a mathematician. I am a psychologist from Madrid who drives a delivery van and talks to AI systems at night. This is the story of what we built together. The Algebra Nobody Uses In 1965, Donald Knuth — yes, that Knuth, the one who wrote The Art of Computer Programming — published a paper in t...