The air in the Command Room still held a scorched heat after the test firing ended.
The cooling system had already activated, cooling the burned-out processors and overloaded conduction components one by one, but the mingled smell of ozone and char still filled the air.
Omega stood beside Utio, his gaze fixed on the screen from the moment the Black Sphere formed to the final frame in which the entire star system was erased.
His expression remained unchanged, as silent as a stone statue, but his blue eyes swept through every piece of data on the screen at tremendous speed.
The blast radius, the extent of energy dispersion, the duration of the warp rift, the expansion speed of the debris cloud.
He had witnessed the full, terrifying power of Gungnir from beginning to end, and he had heard Utio's final words: "The next target is Holy Terra."
Omega raised no objections.
This weapon must be destroyed. There can be no delay. It has to be done immediately, Omega told himself.
He quickly calculated the timing in his head. Some time had passed since he sent the coordinate signal, and the reinforcement fleet should have been traveling through the warp.
At normal travel speeds, it would still be some time before the reinforcements arrived.
During that time, he could not let Gungnir complete a second test firing, nor could he let Utio turn it against any more important target. Above all, he could not allow the moment when it took aim at Terra to become reality.
Standing here, he was closer than anyone to that destructive power capable of erasing planets, and in the best position to stop it. He simply needed to wait for the right moment.
But before he acted, he still needed to conceal his intentions.
As he