Light swallowed them whole.
There was no sound, no ground — just endless white.
Seo Jin gasped, clutching Li Ran's arm as his feet finally touched something solid. The brightness dimmed, revealing a vast metallic hall. The floor was glass, glowing faintly beneath their boots, and endless towers of data reached the ceiling like crystal veins.
The fox floated beside them, tail sparking with static. "We're in... the Core?"
Li Ran scanned the room — calm, focused, eyes gleaming red in the sterile glow. "No guards. No system voice. It's... too quiet."
Seo Jin shivered. The air felt strange — not just cold, but alive, like it was breathing around them.
Then a low hum echoed through the space. The glass beneath them lit up with thousands of lines of code, racing toward a massive, suspended sphere at the room's center. Inside it — glowing threads of gold and red intertwined, pulsing like a heartbeat.
The fox's eyes widened. "That's it. The Core Room. The heart of everything."
