After Five Crowns, Please Leave the Stage

For the first time, he misread the timing of an eastern flank. The coach stared at the metrics. Zhou Duo’s Tactical Foresight rating had fallen from S to A. On Lin Zhou’s old computer, gold light swept across the screen. [ZERO RANKING INCREASED.] [REALITY PROJECTION ACTIVE: TACTICAL FORESIGHT +3%.] Her fingers stopped above the keyboard. Thunder rolled beyond the glass. The thing restarting inside this screen was more than a game. Someone had used rankings from ten years ago to steal everyone else’s future. And now she was back.