The previous four Omega tests had been incremental successes. Omega 1 stabilized the lattice; Omega 4 sustained a contained fusion reaction for twelve seconds. But Omega 5 was the threshold. It was the point of no return—the moment the machine was meant to achieve "ignition," a self-sustaining loop of infinite energy.

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Elara looked at the readout. The containment field was buckling. If she didn't interface with the lattice manually, the reaction would vaporize the Alps. If she did, she would become the CPU of the world's most powerful computer—a living ghost in the machine.

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