But as he touched the file, the Enigma reacted. The Protector hadn't been defeated; it had simply relocated. The walls of the white room began to bleed red code. The mercury sphere appeared behind him, no longer a shapeless blob, but a perfect, terrifying replica of Kael himself.
The Kael-copy tightened its grip. Kael’s vision blurred. He saw a memory of his sister, laughing in the rain. Then the Enigma overwrote it, replacing her face with static. the enigma protector crack
The terminal in front of Kael flickered, casting a sickly green pallor over his face. Outside the window of his 42nd-floor squat, the neon sprawl of Neo-Veridia bled into the smog, but Kael wasn't looking at the city. He was looking at the lock. But as he touched the file, the Enigma reacted
The screen went black, and then, in the reflection of the glass, Kael saw the mercury sphere floating behind him in the room. The mercury sphere appeared behind him, no longer