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The progress bar for the extraction reached 99%. Elias realized too late that the .rar file wasn't unpacking data onto his hard drive. It was unpacking a curse into his reality.

A window flickered open, but it wasn't a game menu. It was a terminal of shifting runes. “The Wyrdness is hungry,” a line of text read. “Insert consciousness to continue.” Tainted.Grail.Conquest.v1.61.rar

The screen didn't go black. It turned a bruised, necrotic purple. He found himself looking at a top-down view of a village called Haelyn’s Hope, shrouded in a thick, pulsating fog. He clicked his mouse to move his character—a Knight of the Broken Table—but as the knight stepped into the fog, Elias felt a cold draft in his own bedroom. The progress bar for the extraction reached 99%

"The Conquest isn't of the land, Elias," the knight whispered through the speakers, the voice a perfect mimicry of his own. "It’s of the user." A window flickered open, but it wasn't a game menu