"Gerry! Stay conscious! Don't let your eyes close!"Kael's voice pierced through the deafening hum. He gripped Gerry's shoulder, pulling him backward as the ground beneath their feet continued to crack apart, swallowing chunks of cables and concrete. The chasm before them was not merely a hole left behind by an explosion, but a gaping mechanical gate, revealing thousands of red eyes blinking simultaneously in the darkness.The entire capital was no longer a human settlement, but a gigantic mainboard pulsing with active energy."Your breathing... Gerry! Hang in there!" Kael dragged Gerry's suddenly limp, heavy body into a remaining gap in the sewer wall.Gerry trembled violently. The veins along his neck and arms stood out sharply, emitting an unnatural neon-blue glow. The backlash from the short circuit he had triggered in the warehouse earlier was now running rampant inside his human body, violently colliding with the remnants of Sovere

"Where is the Architect hiding, Caelum?" Gerry whispered. The pressure of his fingers around Caelum's neck was so strong that it blocked the flow of air through the traitorous general's throat.Caelum swallowed with difficulty. Cold sweat poured down his temples. The sword in his hand trembled violently, reflecting the golden light emanating from Gerry's body. That light pressed against his nerves and locked all movement in his muscles."Answer me before I crush your neck!" Gerry growled, pressing his knee into Caelum's back until a small crack sounded from the armor he was wearing."You... you will never be able to reach him, Gerry!" Caelum screamed hoarsely. "The control center isn't inside this capital! The Architect placed his entire operational core outside the boundaries of this reality network!""Those boundaries were created by humans, which means they can be destroyed by humans," Gerry re

Caelum’s sword, its violet blade crackling, slashed straight toward Gerry’s throat, sending flashes of radiation that scorched the air inside the dimensional portal’s data center.Gerry instinctively swung Obsidian Fang. The collision between the two high-tech blades triggered a magnetic shockwave that scattered the holographic data around them. Caelum spun his body, using the propulsion boosters in his knees to drive a straight kick into Gerry’s chest.Gerry blocked the blow with his armor forearm guard, then countered with a calculated punch wrapped in pure golden energy. His fist struck Caelum’s chest plate with full force. Cracks spread across the steel armor. Caelum was hurled backward, crashing into the Architect’s main console as violet electrical sparks erupted wildly.Before Caelum could get back up, Gerry leaped forward and pinned the traitorous general’s w

The distortion wave from the Reality Rewriter Device eroded the surface of Gerry's Sovereign armor, transforming the reinforced steel into a stream of digital numbers that floated apart in the air.Gerry growled, forcing the entire flow of golden biological energy from his core to resist the disintegration of his body's molecules. Every cell in his chest felt as though it were being burned by high-frequency radiation. Beside the reactor, Kael remained trapped inside the molecular isolation wall, trying to smash the solidified cube of air with the butt of his cracked energy rifle."Switch to a pure frequency, Gerry!" Kael shouted, his voice muffled by the thickness of the isolation wall. "The system can't deconstruct organic energy that isn't registered in its code library!"Gerry released his grip on the armor's electrical power, allowing his steel protection to disintegrate completely and concentrating all his resilience into his biological muscles and nerves. With a single stomp tha

Gerry let out a long breath as the white light in the Zero Point dimension slowly dissipated, replaced by violent tremors that shook his entire biological consciousness. Earth's gravity reclaimed his body, hurling him downward through the layers of black clouds swirling above the capital.Below him, the new secondary transmission towers built by the human factions began emitting intense purple radiation. The Architect had not been completely destroyed. It had infiltrated the remnants of the newly assembled reactor circuits.Gerry landed upright on the deck of Magnus's air fleet battleship, creating a small crack in the steel floor."Target locked! The main tower in the western sector is ready to release the destructive wave!" Magnus shouted from behind the main cockpit, his voice breaking through the roar of the fleet's engines as they were pushed to maximum capacity. "Gerry, are you sure we're doing this now?!"Gerry wiped the dried blood from his lips and stood tall at the edge of t