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In the real world, Elias felt a cold hand rest on his shoulder. He looked at his monitor one last time. The text at the bottom of the screen didn't say YOU DIED . It said:

Suddenly, the screen tore. The audio spiraled into a high-pitched whine that made his teeth ache. His character didn’t invade another world; instead, his own room began to darken. The glow from his monitor bled out onto his desk like spilled ink. In the real world, Elias felt a cold

He noticed the first glitch when he approached the Crestfallen Warrior. The NPC didn’t have dialogue options. He just stared at Elias, his character model twitching rhythmically. Then, a text box appeared: "Why did you let us in?" It said: Suddenly, the screen tore

On the screen, a red phantom appeared in the Firelink Shrine. It wasn’t a knight or a wizard. It was a perfect, low-poly recreation of Elias himself, sitting in his own room, illuminated by a tiny digital monitor. The glow from his monitor bled out onto

The phantom on the screen stood up and turned around to look at the "camera."