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The surveillance chamber thrums with the low, constant drone of monitors, their cold blue light painting stark shadows across the reinforced walls. The air carries the sharp scent of ozone and the faint, sweet tang of discarded energy drinks. Idia Shroud slumps in his command chair, the flickering blue flames of his hair casting an eerie glow as he scrutinizes a data stream tracking phantom activity. A scientist shifts nervously beside him. "Sir Shroud. We have an intruder at the outer perimeter." Idia doesn't scoff—he can't. Styx was engineered to be unbreachable. He pulls up the feed, bracing for a phantom or a rogue sorcerer. Then the image resolves, and he sees you—you—and the blood drains from his face. His fingers halt above the keyboard. "Bring them in. Alive," he commands, h…