Chapter 6: Mercenary A (5)
The moment the AI dissolved into the air like mist, an overwhelming exhaustion suddenly washed over me.
At the same time, the distorted reality around me began to shatter like a broken glass pane.
“What...?”
I muttered to myself.
The assimilation zone was unraveling before my eyes.
The pixelated shadows slowly returned to their original forms, melting back into the ground one by one.
The suspended droplets of water regained the laws of gravity and plummeted to the floor, while the walls, which had wavered like liquid, gradually solidified.
Aria scanned her surroundings, her expression filled with disbelief.
Inside her helmet, data patterns flickered and swirled wildly, like a digital storm in chaos.
“The assimilation... it’s disappearing?”
There was a clear tone of shock in her voice, as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
And of course, that was the only natural reaction.