The world screamed.
The ground split open as molten light erupted from the heart of Core Sigma. Shattered skyscrapers tilted and crumbled into the vortex, vanishing like dust into the storm. From the chaos, something enormous began to rise — not flesh, not metal, but both.
The Sigma Guardian emerged.
Its body was a living tower of shifting code, steel, and luminous veins of red and gold. Its face was featureless, save for two hollow eyes that burned like collapsing stars.
Each of its movements warped the air. The city itself seemed to breathe with it.
[Warning: Entity Class Ω Detected.]
[Power Reading—Unstable.]
[Directive: Terminate or Contain.]
Leon stood on the fractured highway, his cloak torn, his blade still sparking from the fight with Aric. Kiera, standing beside him, reloa
