The Seeker armada poured out of the Fracture in a black tide. Dozens of biomechanical leviathans drifted forward, their hulls rippling as anti-resonance void cores spun up.
Probe data streamed across the imperial command displays: the enemy had already started adapting to the earlier overload tactics. Direct fleet engagement now meant getting shredded.
Elizabeth didn't hesitate. She activated the Veilwhisper Protocol.
The entire imperial family—herself, Aiden, Sabrina, Luna, and Flora—dived into a mirrored virtual layer stitched together from the Living Oath network and captured Seeker mimic signals.
The goal was simple: get inside the armada's central intelligence cores and corrupt them from within by feeding their own hunger back at them until they broke.
