SEVER ZERO
They didn't just flicker to life; they surged to maximum brightness in a blinding, instantaneous explosion of multi-colored light.
To the Ironheads, who were shielding their faces, it was a sudden dawn.
To the Silencers, it was absolute agony.
The stealth operatives’ visors were highly calibrated light-amplification optics, dialed to their maximum sensitivity to navigate the pitch-black EMP zone. The sudden, localized surge of millions of lumens directly into their unshielded optics was the equivalent of staring into a flashbang grenade from one inch away.
The Silencers shrieked—a raw, human sound of pure pain that broke their terrifying silence.