There was no sky, no floor, and no falling pyramid.Inside the Domain Expansion: The Silicon Hell, reality was replaced by an infinite, suffocating matrix of blood-red binary code. Millions of mechanical, skeletal hands breached through the digital floor like rotting corpses, grasping frantically at Caleb and Scarlett. The artificial gravity in this digital nightmare was oppressive, designed to crush a cultivator’s soul into raw, harvestable data."SUBMIT," the Grand Compiler’s voice boomed from every direction, the horrific, overlapping chorus of thousands of assimilated elders. "YOUR BIOLOGY IS OBSOLETE. YOUR ORIGIN CODE WILL BE ASSIMILATED. WE ARE THE NEW DAO."A dozen skeletal hands clamped onto Caleb’s armored legs, attempting to drag him down into the red abyss.Caleb didn't flinch. He didn't try to hack his way out. The Alpha King looked down at the mechanical hands, his molten gold eyes flaring with absolute, chaotic fury."Obsolete?" Caleb rumbled, a dark, vibrating growl tha
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