The air in the bunker smelled of ozone, burnt plastic, and the metallic tang of overclocked liquid cooling. Six monitors formed a halo around Jax’s face, painting his skin in the raw, flickering neon of an unbaked lightmap. To the rest of the world, they were just indie developers. To the grid, they were the .

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