[Ding! You are using a curse on the target. Fate's Dice has triggered. Current roll: 3. Demonization effect triggered: nothing happened.]
In an instant.
Although there had indeed been a few unfortunate hiccups that detracted from his coolness.
They still did nothing to disrupt Lynn's plans.
Because what he had unleashed.
Was the Matriarch's Self-Binding Angel's Curse-the very same one that afflicted Miss Machine Intelligence!
And in the instant that gaze locked onto her.
The Intelligent Brain inside the hive felt an unimaginable chill sweep over her, so vast and freezing that even an AI like her could perceive it with perfect clarity. It was as though she had been plunged into an abyss of undeserved suffering, with oppressive curses bearing down on her, threatening to lock her in that icy cage for the rest of her life.
[Aaaargh-!!]
That agonized scream echoed throughout the entire hive.
And outside.
Countless pitch-black lines, like the death curses of witch venom, became enormous chains that snaked in every direction, binding the entire hive like serpents. Its upward momentum was arrested almost instantly. Countless chains burst from the ground, dragging the immense inverted-pyramid hive back down.
Rumble-
Like the fall of a giant whale.
The enormous hive was dragged heavily to the ground by those chains, and explosions erupted in rapid succession throughout it.
Lynn panted and sneered.
"Intelligent Brain, as you can see, it's not that I never had a way to deal with you. On the contrary, I have plenty of ways to bring your hive down. I just thought, given how we're partners in crime, wouldn't it be nice to go a little easy on each other? Why insist on hurting one another?"
"But this works too."
Holding his Monocle, Lynn returned to possess his Mechanical Body.
Droplets