The descent from the central command penthouse to the deep industrial sectors of the Citadel was an absolute, frictionless drop through the heart of the conquered metropolis.
Ren did not use the elevators. Having completely subjugated the city's localized quantum-fusion network, he simply commanded the heavy, reinforced blast doors of the primary maintenance shafts to retract. He and Chloe dropped through the dark, massive vertical tunnels, safely enveloped in the invisible, zero-point gravity well of his Domain of the Abyss.
They bypassed the twelve miles of panicked civilian residential blocks in absolute silence, dropping deep beneath the pristine parks and artificial rivers.
They reached the foundational bedrock of the Old World sanctuary.
