[Entity Identified: System Cleaner] [Level: NULL] [HP: NULL] [Status: Executing Purge]
"Null," Sebastian whispered, a cold, clinical knot forming in his chest. "No stats. No health bar."
They weren't players. They weren't even World Bosses. You couldn't drain the health pool of a creature that didn't mathematically possess one.
The lead Cleaner didn't fly toward him. It didn't flap its wings or use a propulsion spell. It simply updated its spatial coordinates. One millisecond it was a mile away, and the next, it instantly rendered itself into existence exactly ten feet in front of Sebastian.
There was no sound of displaced air. There was no kinetic shockwave. It just arrived.
[TARGET LOCK ACQUIRED.] A system-wide voice echoed, entirely devoid of emotion. It didn't come from the Seraph. It came from the void itself. [PURGE MALWARE.]
The Cleaner didn't draw a weapon. It just calmly, smoothly raised its right hand toward Sebastian's chest.
