Lox was not particularly confident about talking the Burner's shard around.
He had no idea what state the shard was currently in, or how much of its former wisdom remained in its consciousness.
This attempt was nothing more than casting a line and seeing if anything bit. There was no harm in trying.
Lox removed the suppression on the Nyadra'zatha shard, allowing it to perceive the outside world through the constraints of the tesseract labyrinth.
After sensing its surroundings through the force field, the Burner shard immediately declared,
"You lied to me."
"You are not Mag'ladroth."
A flicker of surprise passed through Lox's mind at the C'tan shard's sudden accusation.
This thing did not seem as blindly frenzied and mindless as it appeared.
"Oh? What makes you say that?" A teasing expression hung on Lox's face, effectively acknowledging the C'tan shard's guess.
He continued dispelling the mist shrouding the tesseract labyrinth, allowing the Burner to see the situation outside directly.
Only then did Nyadra'zatha see that the Void Dragon it had sensed actually wore the form of a human.
It became even more certain of its judgment. No matter how high-sounding the other party's claims were—cooperation, better treatment of subordinates—a C'tan could never abandon its bearing and disguise itself as a lowly organic being.
It knew all too well how arrogant and conceited the C'tan were. Just as humans could never disguise themselves as ants and frolic with ants.
Therefore, the being before it was not Mag'ladroth.
Yet the mutual resonance between C'tan also made the Burner certain that this being possessed C'tan power.
Hiss...
This paradoxical contrast made the Burner shard's already chaotic thoughts even harder to sort out.
Why? It had merely spent tens of millions of years in a Necron tesseract labyrinth. Why had the outside world