Level Twelve: The Heart Chamber - 0 Seconds After Breach
The claw withdrew with a sound like continents grinding against each other—scrape-SCREECH-crack—scales the size of Yoo's entire torso dragging across the Heart Chamber's crystalline walls and leaving gouges that wept luminescent fluid, the Spire's blood made visible.
[EXTERIOR-BREACH: COMPLETE]
[ENTITY-CLASSIFICATION: PRIMORDIAL-BEAST]
[DESIGNATION: THE-DEVOURER]
[THREAT-LEVEL: CATASTROPHIC]
[TRIAL-STATUS: MODIFIED-PARAMETERS-ACTIVE]
The notifications scrolled past Yoo's enhanced perception like funeral announcements, clinical and detached in the way only system messages could manage when informing you that something capable of eating concepts was about to test whether you qualified as worthy prey or just another meal.
Through the breach—fifteen meters wide now, edges still crumbling as whatever force had held the exterior wall intact gave up its struggle against physics and inevitability—came the eye.
