Bzz-
In an instant, she sent countless overload signals from her current terminal to every node of the entire network spanning the First and Second Areas.
The entire network was structured like a pyramid, each tier linked to the next. Sending erroneous commands from a higher tier to the terminals at each node would instantly throw this enormous data machine into chaos.
This was also the plan Lynn had devised from the outset.
Using Light Banquet's permissions and knowledge of this place, he would let her devour it tier by tier. Once she had acquired sufficient permissions and data, she would bring down the Mechanical Church's entire data network from within.
"But how much damage we can actually do-will depend on chance-Ether already knows I exist-if he intervenes-the results probably won't be very good-"
Light Banquet's eyes flickered.
Lynn looked up and said with a faint smile, "It's enough. The Meme Virus has already accomplished half our objective."
"What I want is to reduce the computing power they have to sustain the atomic revolution!"
Bzz-
Almost instantly, powerful feedback came through the data network.
The overload commands Light Banquet sent to all the lower-tier Light Banquet Machines took effect. Alarms sounded almost simultaneously from the Light Banquet Terminals densely distributed throughout the sectors. Every Mechanical Girl plugged into those terminals, whether under their control or not, began to overload uncontrollably under the command's influence.
Crackle-
Amid showers of electrical sparks, one Light Banquet Terminal after another exploded violently from the overload.
Terrifying flames erupted in a rumbling chain of explosions, like a dense matrix collapsing, even tearing enormous fissures through the ground.
"It worked!"
Light Banquet spoke urgently.
"A total of 1,632 terminals were misdirected by my commands-1,032 terminals exploded-the terminals in the remaining several hundred sectors have also been