"Turn your digital avatar around Jace."
The team sniper screamed the order over the secure comms.
"You are abandoning the final objective," the sniper pleaded. "Two hundred million people are watching this exhibition match."
"I am not playing the objective," Jace replied. "Cover my flank."
"Team Zenith is pushing the center lane," the support player panicked. "They are going to humiliate us on a global broadcast."
"Just buy me ten seconds," Jace commanded.
Team Apex was playing the most anticipated post tournament match of the year. The Elysium Summit had secured the broadcast rights to force a public rematch. The corporate sponsors wanted to watch the reigning champions lose a meaningless exhibition.
Jace was not playing to win a digital trophy tonight. He was executing phase two o
