[LEVEL 5: THE SOURCE CODE][TEXTURES: MISSING][PHYSICS: OPTIONAL]
The world inside the Paywall didn't look like a video game. It looked like the blueprints of a nightmare.
Elara Vance floated in a void that was neither black nor white, but a jarring, checkerboard purple. The ground was a wireframe grid. Floating in the distance were half-finished assets: a tree without leaves, a castle with no doors, and a giant T-Posing model of Tutorial Tom.
"I feel... unfinished," Aldren Vance moaned.
He was no longer a cube. But he wasn't a vampire either. He was a bright, neon pink silhouette.
"I am untextured!" Aldren shrieked, looking at his hands. "I have no shading! I am a missing asset! This is worse than being a cube!"
"At least you have a shape," Ignis grumbled. The Cyber-Dragon had devolved into a mess of floating green numbers that roughly resembled a lizard.
