Seo Yeji sat up on the hospital bed, his head throbbing with a dull, persistent ache that refused to fade.
He blinked hard, trying to clear the lingering blurriness from his vision, but the strange, glowing crimson light refusing to leave his sight wasn’t a trick of his imagination.
The red pulse was originating from deep inside the ticking infusion pump, flashing rhythmically like a dying heart.
As he stared in disbelief, thin, translucent lines of light began to spiderweb outward from the machine, weaving complex diagrams and numbers directly into the air before his eyes.
Text began to materialize out of the glowing haze, hovering right in front of his face in crisp, burning characters.
[System Warning: Mechanical core failure detected. Estimated time to complete motor seizure: 3 minutes and 42 seconds.]
Before Seo Yeji could even process the bizarre words hanging in midair, a second notification popped up, glowing a sharp, piercing blue.
[The Eye of Omnipotence has awakened.]
[Would you like to initiate emergency structural optimization?]
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