Red stared at the dark, unmapped sector on the holographic map.
His fingers paused over the command console. He had just calculated the logistics of a full-scale invasion, but a sudden realization halted his hand.
'She gave me the Omni-web spore,' he thought, pulling up the resource logs from the early days of his expansion. 'And the Aegis spore right before the siege.'
Without those two assets, the physical vanguard would have shattered. The continental war would have ended with his complete deletion. The root network provided the necessary lines across the continent, and the Aegis spore kept his troops at their 100% condition by continuously healing them.
He owed his victory to a recluse hiding in a forest.
Red crossed his arms.
Was she actually an ally?
