His username, his hours of progress, his hard-earned rank—all dust. He slumped back in his chair, the glow of the "BANNED" message searing into his retinas.

Frustration curdled into a bitter resolve. If you can't beat them…

What happened next was not a fight. It was a collision of two perfect machines.

The server was a graveyard of shattered polygons. Torsos lay embedded in craters, disembodied capes fluttered in a nonexistent wind, and the kill feed was a solid wall of one name: .