The ground shook.
The sky split into crimson lines.
And then… the System that governed this place screamed.
Lines of light exploded like fissures in the fabric of reality. Ancient symbols swirled in insane spirals, shattering like glass at the touch of a force that shouldn't exist. It was as if the entire island were being rewritten and erased simultaneously, every detail of the landscape collapsing into fragments of corrupted code.
[SYSTEM ERROR]
[PARAMETER VIOLATION DETECTED]
[POWER EXCEEDS ALLOWED LIMIT FOR USER #000]
The runes supporting the island burst into bursts of characters. They were no longer arcane glyphs, but impossible sequences, letters that writhed like living flesh and numbers that bled red light.
Strax advanced. Indifferent.
The air around him shattered into layers, as if reality itself refused his existence.
[CRITICAL ERROR]
[REALITY LAYER COMPROMISED]
[EXECUTION: FORCED RESET]
Then came the voice.
It wasn't divine.
It wasn't demonic.
