The frictionless sprint of a Level 40 Abyssal Sovereign did not tear up the ground. It did not create a sonic boom. Ren completely bypassed the laws of atmospheric displacement, crossing the fifty yards of glowing red, geometric tiles in a terrifying, absolute silence.
The three Level 48 Convergence Arbiters did not possess a human nervous system. They could not feel shock. But their unified, terrestrial logic instantly registered the catastrophic anomaly barreling toward them. The dark, heavily armored monolith was not behaving like a biological organism; it was behaving like a localized collapse of physics.
The Arbiters seamlessly shifted their defensive parameters.
