SEVER ZERO
TIME: DAY 18 OF EXILE, 09:00 HOURS.
LOCATION: THE DIGITAL WORLD - THE OBSIDIAN BASTION.
STATUS: THE WAR COUNCIL.
The transition into the Ghost Server was no longer a blinding explosion of agony. Kara (Jinx) had spent the last two weeks refining the haptic buffer, cannibalizing Blackwatch tactical helmets to smooth out the raw data transfer. When Ren (Wraith) logged in, it felt like plunging into an icy river—a sharp, breathtaking shock that quickly faded into a numb, hyper-focused clarity.