The Apex's friendly little pop-in and its cheerful warning about the new, inter-god cold war had left Ryan with a lot to think about. The good news was, they had a temporary break from the Gardener.
The bad news was, they now had a whole new list of powerful, ancient, and probably very grumpy rivals who were all going to be playing a cosmic game of musical chairs for control of the universe. And the chairs were the super-powerful Precursor "Thrones of Power."
It was time to figure out exactly what kind of weapon he had stolen from the Gardener's mind.
He went to Zara's lab, which had become the official headquarters for their "Let's Figure Out How to Fight a God" club. He closed his eyes and focused on the new, strange knowledge that was now a part of him. He called it the "Harvest Key." It wasn't the complete instruction manual for the Precursor's universe-ending harvest plan, but it was like having a few, very important, and heavily-underlined pages from it.
