"To conquer the impossible, one must become impossible."
Deep underground, beneath the Luna TRC headquarters, Richard lay still. This was Lina's masterpiece: a hidden base, separate from the joint military complex. Here, Richard had his own Q-Cogitator Core, a massive, humming machine built for one purpose. Unlike the Praetoriani, who used a 1:48 time compression for training, or the Ordo Infernalis, who trained for what felt like 500 years in just six months (1:1000 compression), Richard was on another level.
He was in a simulation. He had been there for months in real-time. Inside, his mind was compressing time even further, using his ten-layer mindscape. This wasn't just a simulation; it was a hyper-accelerated reality. His mindscape multiplied the simulation's 10,000-time compression by another 100 layers.
The math was simple, and terrifying: 1:1,000,000 time compression.
