As John watched them, a pang of frustration hit him. He recalled his sealed Speed stat from Athanasia.
If he had those stats now, he wouldn't be gasping for air in the fog. He couldn't help but imagine how trivial this conflict would be if he could just edit his own physical constraints as easily as he did the cannons.
"The first test is to see how the cannons and towers will do against them," he decided, forcing his mind back to the present. He kept his eyes glued to the map, following their tracks while he resumed running. He had to keep moving toward his secondary deployment zone to make up for his agonisingly slow speed compared to theirs.
His entire theory rested on a single, crucial variable that the areas in the Source Code World didn't have to deal with: the fog. He had seen firsthand how the fog affected the machines and even the Fog Seekers.
