The Mechanoid Control Facility hummed deep beneath Vaingall's central temple, a labyrinth of containers for all of the 954 new mechanoids vessels, each of them housing a brain and a soul of the evil duplicates that were generated by the disintegrated relic.
It was also the 65th day of Kivas Chariot's survival in this timeline, a milestone marked not by fanfare but by the quiet culmination of her vision—a harvest of atonement forged from the ashes of madness.
The facility's heart was a vast chamber, its walls lined with rows of pods like silent sentinels, each a sleek coffin of alloy and rune-etched crystal, housing the transformed remnants of the Parade.
Kivas led the way, her halo casting a soft corona that seemed to coax faint blooms from the chamber's engineered soil.
Behind her walked Samael, Oizys, and Fymnhendyr.
They halted before one of the many pods.
The occupant within—RABU-1, the vessel for the duplicate leader's consciousness—was there.
