Extra To Protagonist - Chapter 96: Strange Vines

... MAIN STABILITY: DEGRADED]

The system's updates had stopped feeling foreign. They sat now like quiet facts behind his eyes, pulsing just under thought.

"Good," Reinhardt said. "Because this isn't staying hidden."

He reached behind his shoulder and unclipped the hilt of his blade. Still sheathed, but ready. The motion was clean. Too clean.

He looked at the vines again. Then at the cracks near the wall.

"This is containment breach behavior. Slow growth. Subtl ...