As one of Eden District's former core management AIs, Eden still retained considerable control over the Creator's facilities after a thousand years of ups and downs. Although the AI had undergone some indescribable "iterative upgrades" and was now quite different from what it had been a thousand years ago, its permissions certainly wouldn't have vanished just because it had been upgraded.
So, once it entered the Sun Ship's main control system, it easily granted itself authority over the system. While it was at it, it also gave Lord Murphy the highest level of access he could obtain without physical verification.
That allowed Murphy to come and go freely aboard the Sun Ship. He strode through the crooked corridors in his power armor, warped by the impact of the crash. Whenever he reached a junction, any hatch that could still move opened for him automatically.
The VIP treatment left Prince Khufu and General Bhopal, following behind him, completely dumbfounded.
Seriously?
The vampire could wander all over their ship without even needing to swipe an ID? Was it really that absurd?
It was like their own sour-faced wife, who treated them like dirt and was always throwing tantrums, fawning over some other handsome man—and doing it right in front of them!
How could anyone put up with that?
General Bhopal clenched his fists, feeling the instinctive anger of a man who'd just been cuckolded.
Prince Khufu, too, found it unbelievable.
After all, even as the heir to the Sankhai Empire, he had to wear an identity badge at all times to move freely through the Sun Ship. Yet Lord Murphy had been aboard for less than five minutes, and he strode along as if he were right at home.
Could he really be the legendary Chosen of the Creator? Had the Creator