SEVER ZERO
Kara was running a final diagnostic on her neural-halo, her eyes reflecting the scrolling green code from her datapad.
"Server is locked tight," Kara reported, her voice hushed but thrumming with adrenaline. "Elias wasn't kidding. There are zero spectator slots. No broadcast streams. No public chat channels. We are entirely ghosted from the main Aegis network. It's just us and the game engine."
"Good," Leo grunted, sliding his heavy visor down. "Less lag. More frames. Let's go get rich."
Ren climbed into the central pod. The liquid-gel contoured to his spine, a comforting, icy embrace. He pulled the heavily modified Aegis-Pro helmet over his head, the pressurized seals locking with a definit