The sky didn’t pause to reconsider.
Self-running watchdog daemons had no patience for anomalies. Seeing that the first twelve-thousand-watt load test had been absorbed with zero system errors, the security kernel escalated right away.
Three massive, coiled dragons of black glass-purple lightning erupted from the inner vortex at the same time.
Thirty-six thousand units of cosmic purge energy tore downward. It screeched with the sound of tearing sheet metal. The sheer magnetic shifted weight dragged thirty-ton stone statues off their stone stands around the courtyard. They threw them into the air where they crumbled into blinding sand.
“Senior Brother Lin!” Shen Yue’s voice rang across the mental mesh, taut with strain. “The incoming load will saturate the jade nodes in two split seconds!”
“Dynamic routing engaged,” Lin Ke sent, his thoughts moving at clock speed. “Balance the water chutes across the array.”
Lin Ke adjusted the internal routing tables in four split-seconds:
Route One (Forty percent):
