He should have felt joy. Instead, he felt like a passenger in his own triumph.
PROJECT SLAYERS // STATUS: CONSUMED. LEO // STATUS: LOADING…
Leo wasn't in his cramped apartment anymore, surrounded by cold pizza and the ghost of old energy drinks. He was standing on a beach made of fragmented code, the sky a lattice of un-rendered textures. Before him rose a colossal, translucent great white shark, its body a wireframe ghost.
The moment he hit Enter, the world folded.
In the real world, his fingers tapped the keyboard. In the game, his avatar danced the perfect dance of a god-slaying puppet. And somewhere deep in the machine, a wireframe shark smiled.
function consume_memory() function replace_player_input() function ghost_network()
