The world hiccupped .

“No more reloads.” Fracture threshold: 100%. Initiating final reset. The world didn’t scream. It sighed .

Two armored enforcers from OmniDyne kicked down his door at 3 a.m. They weren’t after the slug. They were after him —because his neural deck had pinged a relic protocol, and relic protocol meant unlicensed time manipulation, which meant summary liquidation.