Villain Ch 1772. Overwrite
He knew immediately—it wasn't the hacker this time.
The dev team was forcing a rollback.
They were trying to overwrite the hijacked map and restore the original ice castle environment.
And it was messy.
Chunks of the factory remained, fused with jagged shards of ice wall textures. Parts of the floor blinked between stone and brass, reality unable to decide which asset to commit to. Above, a fractured chandelier hung midair, half-coded as crystal, half as an exposed turbine.
From the shadows, the static voice roared—distorted, furious.
"Damn you… damn you…"
And then the room exploded into chaos.
One by one, monsters spawned around them.
No—not one by one.
A dozen. Then two dozen. Then more.
It wasn't even consistent. Allen's HUD flickered as his threat detection failed to categorize them—different models, different behaviors, different games.
