Because this place.
Already held so many memories of their time together.
The next moment.
He looked up, instantly transformed into a stream of data, and infiltrated the machines dismantling the entire virtual world. He swiftly rewrote their behavioral logic, slowing their demolition of this world even further.
Giving her enough time.
Immediately afterward.
He plunged into the Data Network again, constantly leaving faint, imperceptible streams of data along the information pathways.
Like drifting feathers, he let them float on the wind throughout the Data Network.
"I'll find you, Miss Machine Intelligence."
Virtual world · Mechanical hive city.
In a secluded corner, a silver-haired girl sat with her eyes closed, sealing herself away in an empty, silent room. Faint streams of Light Banquet's data could be seen flowing along her body, continually converging inside her data core.
Her power grew rapidly as she absorbed and integrated them.
After a long while.
She slowly opened her eyes. As she devoured the final trace of Light Banquet's power, she could distinctly feel her share and permissions within the Seven Gods increase a fraction.
It wasn't much.
But every fraction she gained represented a shift in the balance of the Seven Gods' collective power.
She stood up. The instant she raised her head, her body silently dissolved into long streams of blue data, vanishing from the safe house in this mechanical hive city.
When she reappeared, she was already walking along the deserted streets. One patrolling Machine Intelligence monitor after another swept past her through the streets of the vast steel jungle, as though they couldn't see her.
The powerful gusts they stirred up lifted her long black robe, yet they paid her no heed.
This was the legacy she had inherited.
Under her permissions, unless the will of the Seven