The pain was unlike anything Damon had felt before.
Despite the golden sword clearly missing him, something tore loose inside him with a sensation he had no reference or words for. As if something incorporeal but at the same time clearly physical tore in half, as if a presence he had never consciously registered until now had ceased to exist.
He lingered in that feeling for only a short moment before the voice spoke again.
"In accordance with the Celestial Mandate 1.2B7008C, the defendant's connection to the System has been severed."
Damon's eyes widened.
The System.
The interface that had arrived on Earth at the same time Mana did. Now, it seemed so long ago that he had long forgotten what it had truly been like before it.
And now, as the words of the entity struck him, and as he followed the source of the pain in his abdomen, the details finally connected.
'It's... gone.'
Before he could even have a second to process what had just happened, the figure moved again.
