The conceptual weight of the system reboot was not merely a heavy pressure. It was an absolute, physical crushing sensation that threatened to flatten Valeria's consciousness into a single, agonizing point of data. It felt as if the entire sky above the valley had suddenly solidified into solid lead and dropped directly onto her shoulders. She gasped for air, but her lungs completely refused to expand. The massive, glaring red text of the deletion protocol burned itself violently into her retinas, obscuring the terrified faces of her husbands.
Ignis did not wait for her physical body to completely collapse under the cosmic strain. The God of Knowledge moved with absolute, blinding speed. He stepped smoothly past Kael and placed his golden, metallic hands firmly against Valeria's temples.
