Leo had chuckled at first. A joke. A bootleg. But when he plugged it in, the BIOS didn’t just recognize it—it surrendered . The UEFI screen flickered, split into four quadrants, and a voice—no, a chorus of synthesized voices—spoke through the shop’s tinny speaker.
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“Select your stratum.”