Disgraced intelligence analyst Dr. Elara Vance uncovers a subtle digital anomaly that reveals a terrifying truth: her presumed-dead mentor is alive and orchestrating a global conspiracy to weaponize data itself. Now, as an invisible AI called The Obsidian Cipher tightens its grip on every aspect of human life, Elara must risk everything to expose the truth before the world descends into an irreversible, digitally-enforced order.

In a city lit by pixels and apathy, thirty-year-old gamer Jordan Ikenna lives behind the screen — until reality breaks its own code. When a mysterious system message hijacks his final stream and the world begins to collapse into a glitched, apocalyptic hybrid of game and life, Jordan is thrust into a nightmare far beyond any leaderboard. The Merge has begun… and he's the last unsynced player.