“What’s wrong with earning favor?” Freya sighed as she bounded backwards at speed. She poured in as much energy as she could to get away from the man. But he chased after her with unrelenting determination. “Nothing,” she retorted. “Unless you mistakenly conflate nurturing a child with managing a
Freya inhaled deeply and filled her lungs with air, then exhaled it all out calmly. She tightened her grip on the Ra’ventrii blade and twirled it slightly, then began to circle Father with a predatory look on her face. And as she walked, she activated Ascendant Form and allowed her energy to flow t
He hadn’t met anyone in his long life that could hurt him this much. Father’s scowl turned back into a wide grin as he realized that breaking Freya was going to be the most satisfying event of his life. His wounds began to close up even as he imagined all of the things he was going to do to her. O
Circuit pathways lit up all around as Command Intelligence spooled itself up for one big strike. Raijin decided to retaliate before it could commit its attack, and had all mirrors fire off unending datastreams right into ComInt. Dozens of them struck its obsidian shell and ripped it apart. Their c
With Command Intelligence’s code vulnerable, Raijin threw in more CodeTraps, perhaps far more than necessary, then waited for ComInt to repair itself. It did so incredibly slowly. It stitched its outer shell back together, but kept pausing every few microseconds. Sometimes, it was forced to undo and
Then, Raijin stitched Command Intelligence back together bit by bit, line by line, and rebuilt it to her preference. While she did so, Truesight continued on its path and subjugated the rest of the logic circuits and brought their Intelligences to heel. Without ComInt, they were destined to lose th
“I need you to raise the base’s alert level,” she said. “W-what? Why Crusader?” asked the Hangar Chief. Although it was an innocent enough question, Mia was immediately angered by the resistance she met. She felt as though her title didn’t mean anything, that her commands were too easily ignored.
The destroyer adjusted its course and turned its port side at both frigates. Her C-ranked cannons adjusted their aim, and peppered Darius’ frigate with a barrage of shells. Though they were hardly damaged by it, their advance was greatly slowed. His frigate was also pushed down towards the ground,