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Leo's body tensed as the screen flickered again, a single ominous line flashing across the display.

[Warning: Unidentified Anomaly Detected.]

His pulse quickened. His breathing slowed.

An anomaly?

His mind raced through possibilities, but before he could process what it meant, the machine surged with renewed intensity. The circuits pulsed erratically, recalibrating itself as if struggling to classify whatever it had just uncovered.

Then—he felt it.

A pull, deep within his core. Something hidden, something buried far beneath the surface of his awareness, being forcefully stirred by the test. His veins burned faintly, his muscles tensed involuntarily, and for a fleeting moment, he felt like the machine was extracting something from him that he had no control over.

It wasn't pain—it was pressure. A weight pressing down on him, coiling within his very genetic structure like a dormant force being unearthed.