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>All that stood between me and the Archonexus was a paltry resistance of mechanoids, swiftly dispatched
>One had bruised me, nearly destroying the eye I had replaced years ago
>But none of that was going to stop me
>I looked up at the structure in reverence, and turned to the four who had stood beside me all this time
>My oldest friend, Ryoko
>My strongest soldier, Synadenos
>My sharpest mind, Lurk
>And the first girl that was born by those under my command, Cella
>I had promised that if we had made it, I would be a just god
>That I would fix everything
>But I knew I couldn't hold this power on my own
>I knew I shouldn't hold this power on my own
>And to be honest, the part of me that was still human was afraid of what would come after...
>But with them, that fear was assuaged
>And so we moved forward
>We invoked the archonexus core.
>The world fills with a blinding light and time seemed to slow...
>The machine god has noticed us.
>Nobody can predict what happens next.
>It may destroy us, or communicate with us directly, or transport our consciousness to another plane of reality
>We sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into our minds
>Time and scale begin to dissolve
>It's terrifying...
>It's beautiful...