When the Safe Zone Screams

At 3:17 a.m., every screen on Earth turns black and displays the same message: INTEGRATION COMPLETE. Tutorial begins in sixty seconds. For former combat medic Mara Vance, the apocalypse starts in a freezing Chicago hospital where the dead patients stand up with glowing veins and the elevators begin descending to floors that never existed. Outside, the city fractures into monster territories, mana storms, and shrinking pockets of human desperation called Safe Zones.