The battlefield had gone quiet. But Liberty Online was far from still.
All across the Swamp Kingdom, whispers spread—rumors about how Ashen didn't defeat the anomaly by overwhelming it, but by rejecting its existence. Not with brute strength, but by reshaping the rules around it.
Jaecar arrived at Research Camp Delta-3 with a fresh set of scouts. They'd set up a perimeter just hours earlier, hoping to trace residual signals from the Patchghost's incursion.
What they found instead was far worse.
"Commander Jaecar!" shouted one scout, gesturing toward the swamp's edge.
Beneath the waterline, partially submerged and pulsing faintly with corrupted light, was an object that looked like a server file crystal, glowing with warning runes.
[Detected: Dormant Anomaly Core – Classification: Type Zero]
Type Zero: Not born of bug, not born of boss.
An object that has no line of code linking to quest trees, item databases, or event flags.
Risk Factor: Undefined
