Fury appeared on screen, her hair a mane of violet flame. She didn't look at the demons or the scorched Earth. She turned her head, her glowing eyes locking onto the camera, staring directly into Elias’s soul.

The lights in the room plunged into darkness. The only thing visible was the screen, where Fury was no longer in the game environment. She was standing in a void, walking toward the foreground until her armored boots seemed to press against the glass of his monitor.

"You seek to command the Seven Deadly Sins," her voice rasped, cold and layered with static. "Yet you begin your journey with a theft. Do you think the Horsemen answer to a master who hides in the shadows?"

Elias reached for the power button, but his hand froze. A notification popped up in the corner of the screen—not a game achievement, but a system log: THREAT DETECTED: SOUL_QUARANTINE.EXE.