Silver Fantasy gritted her teeth, bound and pinned in an utterly humiliating position by the barbed chains. Extreme fury and humiliation filled her eyes as she clenched her fists and struggled desperately.
But it clearly did no good.
Instead, every movement made the chains inflict even more unimaginable pain on her consciousness.
She had never imagined that she would stumble at the final hurdle, subdued by the very gaze she had sought to destroy.
"Unable to activate Warp Engine-Warp ability affected by curse-cannot proceed-" "Forced consciousness upload in progress-warning-suppressed by curse-consciousness unable to leave frame-request failed-" "Activating self-destruct sequence-activation failed-Silver Fantasy is a unique Supreme Frame-self-destruct sequence requires higher authorization-" "Quantum detonation failed-force-field attack failed-death-line laser failed-"
As notifications and warnings rang incessantly through her consciousness, she gritted her teeth and issued command after command to her frame. But without exception, every attempt ended in failure under the Origin curse.
And that meant...
She had lost all ability to resist. She was utterly at that bastard's mercy.
"Damn it!"
At that moment, she gritted her teeth, finally losing every trace of her former composure and calm.
Like a lamb caught in a trap, no amount of bleating could possibly inspire pity in the wolves. It would only spur their viciousness.
"It's useless, Miss Machine Intelligence. Even Root-Level beings struggle to contain this curse, let alone you."
Crack, crack, crack, crack-
Amid wave after wave of twisting flesh...
Before her eyes, Lynn's enormous, frenzied head shrank little by little. The sprawling tentacles that sent one's Sanity Value plummeting kept retracting, and the head, several stories tall, slowly twisted down to the size of a normal human head.
The surging flesh began to twist and deform, gradually struggling into the outlines of a torso and limbs.
A dozen seconds later...