Chapter 29: When the World Bends
Jay didn’t move.
Not out of fear—but calculation.
He watched the skies turn red, digital seams opening in the heavens like fractured code. A swirling gate of System Enforcement Authority blinked into reality, and from it descended a System Archon, clad in white—a figure whose presence alone caused logic to ripple.
Alicia pulled at his sleeve. "Jay... we need to hide. This isn’t like Venn—this one’s a system administrator!"
But Jay’s eyes, now fully open, were locked on the being descending like a god.
> [Authority Detected: System Archon—’Adjudicator No. 6’]
[Level: Unknown. Access: Root Administrator Tier.]
[Host Condition: Untargetable (temporarily)]
[Time Until Status Ends: 2 minutes 17 seconds]
"Two minutes of invincibility," Jay murmured, yawning. "Plenty of time to do nothing useful."