"Hmm?"
My mind floated in a sea of absolute, soundless static. The crushing agony in my shattered ribs, the freezing cold of the cavern floor... it was all completely gone.
"Huh?"
I slowly opened my eyes, blinking against a blinding, unnatural light.
And I found out that, I wasn't dead.
A jagged chunk of debris falling from the ceiling was suspended perfectly in mid-air. A drop of blood from my own chin hung frozen inches above the ice.
Everything was in agonizingly slow motion. Time had practically stopped.
Suddenly, my system interface violently violently flickered to life.
[ADMINISTRATOR MODE ACTIVATED.]
A new window expanded in front of my eyes, aggressively pushing the red death warnings aside.
[System Functions:]
[Root Access: UNLOCKED]
[???: LOCKED]
[???:LOCKED]
[???:LOCKED]
I blinked, my mind instantly latching onto the only available option. I mentally focused on Root Access, reading the cyan description that materialized.
