And those tentacles, thick as shield machines, had already spread to the fleet's vicinity. A cruiser's firewall was the first to be breached, and tentacles began to wrap around its hull, with its close-range artillery at full power unable to stop the invasion.
Soon, the cruiser was completely enshrouded by tentacles, and as the Demonic Puppets released by the tentacles continually invaded, the cruiser's firewall was swiftly breached.
From the outside, it appeared as though the cruiser was quickly petrified and then crushed as the tentacles tightened.
Frederick immediately sensed something was wrong; his computing power limit was dropping.
"Damn it! You monster!"
He quickly realized the opponent had invaded his control system and was attempting to rewrite his underlying software.
Frederick had survived in Cyberspace for so long; what kind of wandering AI hadn't he encountered?
