The sky cracked.
It was not a metaphor.
Above major cities in the real world—New Tokyo, Neo London, the floating spires of Atlas Arcology—the heavens fractured like glass under impossible strain. To ordinary eyes, the world remained normal. But to those awakened, to those tethered to the remnants of the Architect's code, the sky now revealed its hidden sickness.
A cancer eating reality from the inside out.
Government satellites picked it up first—spatial-temporal anomalies, script ruptures where the game and the world overlapped violently. AI watchdogs went mad, identifying threats that did not belong to any known database.
And then the warnings began.
[WARNING: SHATTERED SKY PROTOCOL ACTIVE.]
[UNSTABLE ZONES DETECTED.]
[COMMENCING SYSTEMIC PURGE.]
Nexus Citadel – Darius's Throne of Flame and Null
