He wasn't just playing Rei, the Voidrunner; he was Rei. The air tasted of ozone and ancient dust. Beneath his feet, the clouds of the Ultravoid felt like solid velvet.

The prompt flashed in the corner of Kael’s cracked monitor like a digital ghost: .

Kael looked up. In the distance, where the Great Star should have been, stood a massive, shifting structure made of raw geometry. It was a cathedral of data. As he skated toward it, leaving trails of light in the ash, he realized the "v1.08.47515" wasn't a patch version. It was a set of coordinates.

As Kael executed a final, high-speed dash through the structure's core, a message scrolled across his vision: CONNECTION ESTABLISHED. WELCOME HOME.