Leo’s blood chilled. He frantically alt-tabbed back to the server panel. The file was there. sk_spawn_cfg.txt . But its timestamp had changed from 22:03 to 22:03:01 . One second later.

His screen flickered. The recovery file was now open. And it was being typed into. By itself.

Leo watched in horror as the player count plummeted from 847 to 312. Logs streamed by: Player died due to fall damage. Player killed by [SERVER_ENTITY]. Player disconnected.

A war. A duel of keystrokes. Leo typed. The ghost overwrote. Player screams flooded the voice channel. “The sky is upside down!” “My sword heals the monsters!” “I can’t log out!”