Gary Peterson broke the Citadel's rules.
Now the dungeon wants to count every breath.
Root Fault 4 has opened in Node 9-A, where clean air comes with scores, masks report home, and children are being sorted by the value of their lungs. Gary is injured, the network is stretched thin, and the Source Layer is finally asking the ugliest question of all:
Can survival be called saving people if refusal no longer matters?
With Mara, Lena, Jax, Elara, Sable, Kett, Toff, and one dangerously influential cup, Gary must face the Citadel's deepest law: preservation at any cost.
No kings.
No chosen ones.
No clean victory.
Just bad tools, ugly boards, furious survivors, and one final rule:
Breath cannot be counted as consent.
Grab The RPG Citadel Protocol Book 5: The Last Breath Protocol now and finish the gritty dungeon LitRPG series where survival is messy, help has teeth, and the next shift belongs to the people still standing.