Elias hovered his mouse over it, but the icon moved on its own, dodging his cursor.
His monitor flickered. The .rar file on his desktop began to grow in size—kilobytes turning into gigabytes, then terabytes, faster than his hard drive should have allowed. Totally.Accurate.Battle.Simulator.v1.1.4.rar
Elias reached for the power button, but his hand froze. On the screen, a single Squire walked up to the camera until its giant, wobbling eye filled the entire display. Elias hovered his mouse over it, but the
Suddenly, his room felt cold. On the screen, the Squires stopped fighting the Mammoths. They turned as one, forming a circle around the center of the map. They began to pile their weapons into a heap, which started to glitch and glow with a jagged, purple light. Elias reached for the power button, but his hand froze
The game launched without a splash screen. The physics felt... heavy. When he placed a standard Squire, the unit didn't just stand there; it looked at the camera. Its googly eyes, usually vacant and charming, were bloodshot. Elias shrugged it off as a clever mod and placed a line of Archers against a group of Mammoths. He pressed .
The screen went black. When Elias rebooted, the file was gone. But every time he looked in a mirror, he felt a strange, ragdoll-like looseness in his limbs, and for a split second, his own eyes looked just a bit too round, a bit too white, and a bit too googly.
“You shouldn’t have extracted the soul,” a text box popped up at the bottom of the screen.