Chapter 539 – Ghost Loop
He didn't blink.
Didn't smile.
Just said it like it was math.
Corvus let out a low whistle, still perched comfortably on Lux's shoulder, wings fluffed slightly like he was enjoying the heat radiating off the devil in CFO mode.
But before the bird could say something smug again, the hologram screens flickered.
Then flashed red.
A low chime buzzed through the room, polite but urgent.
[Alert: Network link to the Old Greed Tower has been lost.]
[Status: Unknown. Tracepath: Failed. Reconnect attempts: 4. No response.]
Lux's head tilted slightly.
"Lost?"
[The signal vanished, sir. Unexpectedly. Intermittent connection noted previously. Appears and disappears at irregular intervals. Every sixty seconds, approximately.]
Lux frowned. "A ghost link?"
[That would be the appropriate term.]
Lux's fingers flexed. "So Zoltarin's using a special channel."
