The city above had fallen silent weeks ago.
Now, it was only a corpse — its veins made of fiber-optic cables and its blood, flickering light.
Leon walked through the ruins of the megacity, his boots crunching over glass and bones. Every building leaned like a broken rib toward the blackened sky. The storm still hadn’t stopped since the Architect’s fall; it rolled endlessly above, lightning crawling like code across the clouds.
His HUD flickered inside the cracked visor.
[Objective: Locate Sovereign signal fragments.]
[Estimated source: Ghost Network – Sublevel Sector 9.]
[Warning: Unidentified activity detected.]
The Ghost Network.
It had once been a data hive — a cluster of underground relay hubs that handled millions of consciousness backups during the pre-war years. When the wor
