Chapter 657: The Thief Behind the Glass
Whoever held the other end of the relay possessed more charge than Vyra, but she understood the network better.
He hit her containment across nine routes at once, attempting to overload the entire structure. Vyra had spent twenty minutes learning how much pressure each route could carry. She shifted her fire instead of meeting his strength directly.
"Every one of those routes draws from the same reserve," she reported. "He can force them open, but each attempt costs him. Sera, west arc again."
The sentinel came back for the fifth time and Seraphine took it apart in nine seconds. It came back a sixth time and Ira had that one.
"Each return costs him," Vyra said. "That reserve cannot sustain this indefinitely."
Leon stayed on the anchor and let them handle it.
