Chief Manager Derek's actual plan for the dungeon shoot was straightforward and had the kind of elegant simplicity that came from knowing how the industry worked. Approach Aria through the filming process, offer her B-rank treatment that Unique supposedly couldn't match.If she refused the offer, well, dungeons were places where accidents happened. Equipment failures. Support member negligence.The kind of tragedies that occurred in dangerous environments all the time. Nobody would question a death in a dungeon. It was the cost of the profession.Jason laid out Derek's likely strategy to Aria in her living room while she was scrolling through the newest offers from GGN. His tone stayed clinical and detached, like he was explaining logistics rather than dismantling a trap before it had time to form."The Great Mage title made you famous," he said. "But that title is now a shackle. Network television would demand the old Aria Reeves. It would lock you into a concept that people would ti