The nine huge black glass heads of the reaper daemon dropped in a coordinated, sharp-angled arc, hovering twenty paces above the rotating green jade rings.
From their hollow eye sockets poured twin beams of intense, emerald sensor light that swept across the runic lattice of Sector S07. The scanning heads began to iterate down the address channels of the mortal registry, querying the main lineage records of the seven liberated southern provinces at a rate of one hundred thousand records per second.
Head 01 targeted the root address for Province 01: Mount Taiyi.
Query address: 0x7FFF0044.
Returned value: 0x00000000.
The emerald sensor beam flickered, the green light stuttering as the scanning logic met an empty null address where a densely populated mining directory should have existed.
Head 02 targeted the root address for Province 02: The Azure River Basin.
Query address: 0x7FFF0048.
