[WARNING: CRITICAL SYSTEM OVERRIDE DETECTED.]
[BIOLOGICAL VESSEL UNSTABLE. FORCED SYNCHRONIZATION AT 50% IMMINENT.]
[PROCEED?]
"Yes, you stupid machine! Do it!" Sebastian roared into the freezing air.
The moment he confirmed the prompt the world stopped making sense.
The pain didn't hit him like a physical blow. It hit him like a nuclear detonation inside his nervous system.
"AGGGHHHH!" Sebastian screamed as his voice tore his vocal cords. He fell to his knees on the frozen asphalt and clutched his head as his physical reality violently collided with the game's raw source code.
His body began to glitch.
It was horrifying to witness. One second his arm was covered in black leather and pale human skin. The next microsecond the flesh dissolved entirely into a translucent wireframe mesh of green and black digital polygons.
His biological meat and the server data were fighting a brutal tug-of-war for dominance over his existence.
