"I'll erase you! I'll erase us all!"Zara's scream cut through the tense silence. Her entire blue form was now covered in black veins from the Void Resonator, which vibrated violently in her hands. The black energy overflowed, creating a vortex that began to erode the walls of reality surrounding the Architect of Silence. Zara no longer cared if she destroyed herself. Seeing Axel's core extinguished in that silver hand had snuffed out the last remnants of her sanity.The Architect merely smiled, its featureless face seemingly savoring the suffering. "Beautiful noise, little one. Let your rage be the final note before absolute zero takes over."Just as Zara was about to unleash the full force of the Resonator, a blood-red rift opened between them. It was neither silver nor gold. An energy blade, vibrating at an extremely rough frequency, slashed at the Architect's silver hand holding Axel's core.Srak!The silver hand was severed, disintegrating int

"Let him go! Please, just let him go!"Zara's scream pierced the void, which was now filled with scorched energy residue. She crawled across the cracked data-floor, her eyes, now blackened, staring helplessly at the silver hand of the Architect of Silence. Between the giant fingers, Axel’s golden light fragment flickered weakly, as if each squeeze from the Architect was counting down the seconds to eternal extinction."You ask for the impossible, Little Architect." The Architect's voice sounded like metal scraping over ice. "This golden stain is the final disturbance preventing the perfection of zero. Extinguishing it is a necessity.""You cold bastard!" Zara slammed her fist into the floor, triggering a black wave from her remaining Void energy. "Take me! Make me zero, but let him live!""Zara, don't ...." Axel's voice was a nearly vanished whisper of wind. The golden fragment dimmed, releasing particles of light that were immediately absorbed by t