— 44xStorm: THE HALO WAS A PERSON??? THE HALO WAS A PERSON THIS ENTIRE TIME???
— BastetThrone: Alice Ashborn. The Light That Destroys. She has been sitting on top of Kai's head since the competition started and we had no idea. We are so stupid!
— VesperaFearless: The 20th member. That's the 20th member. 19 registered fighters and everyone kept asking who number 20 was. Also I need 10 seasons of Ashborn Family Drama RIGHT NOW! These three together are the best!
The rest was unreadable. Thousands of messages per second, the chat reduced to a waterfall of text that no human eye could follow.
Emilia's eyes moved across her interface. Three mental taps. The chat mode switched from public to membership-only, the entry barrier set at one Chronos.
One Chronos. One hundred dollars to type.
The chat went quiet for exactly two seconds.
Then the subscription notifications began rushing in.
