Chapter 90: Erasure of Sector 03

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: Erasure of Sector 03

The opening barrage filled the command chamber with intersecting beams of hard white light.

Leon walked through it.

Eclipse Presence eroded the structured energy before most of the beams could fully form. The denser lances that retained coherence struck the outer plates of the Void Monarch Set and left only brief scorched lines that the ash-gray undertone of Ashen Eclipse erased within moments. The Sector 03 Authority adjusted at once, its adaptive arrays shifting configuration mid-fire—beams giving way to rapid multi-spectrum pulses, then to solid energy blades that extended in wide controlling arcs across the chamber.

Leon closed the distance without changing pace.

The authority construct met him near the central dais. One arm swept horizontally with a blade long enough to cut through several reinforced frames in a single motion. Leon stepped inside the arc. The Aura of Ashen Eclipse pressed hard against the weapon’s structure; the edge dulled and fractured along its length as Finality took hold. The Abyssal Stinger flashed upward, scoring a deep line across the joint. Absolute Eclipse followed immediately. Gray cracks raced through the limb. The arm locked, then began to disintegrate from the inside out.

The construct responded with concentrated force.

Its remaining arm and the branching crest unleashed a point-blank discharge of compressed energy while the chamber itself activated secondary systems—barrier matrices flaring along the walls, spatial anchors attempting to fix Leon in place, and floor panels shifting to create sudden drop hazards. At the same time, external production feeds linked to the tower began flooding the lower levels with emergency deployment signals.

Eclipse Presence met every layer simultaneously.

The spatial anchors collapsed. The barrier matrices developed spreading patches of ash and lost coherence. The floor panels stopped moving. The point-blank discharge washed across Leon’s domain and came apart, structured energy unraveling into drifting motes of fading light. He stepped through the dissolving barrage and drove the Abyssal Stinger into the authority construct’s torso, just below the primary sensor cluster.

Necrotic Injection flooded the internal systems. This time the effect spread with the deeper weight of the new class. Circuits blackened in cascading sequences. The construct’s movements grew heavier. It tried to separate, floating backward on anti-gravity fields while its remaining array reconfigured for a sustained high-output beam.

Leon did not allow the distance.

Ashen Tide erupted from his free hand—dense, absolute, and laced with drifting gray ash. The wave slammed into the construct at close range, stripping outer plates and forcing the unit downward. The anti-gravity fields failed. The tall frame crashed onto the dais hard enough to crack the alloy surface.

Leon was already moving up the fallen form.

He climbed the torso in three strides, avoided a final desperate upward slash, and plunged the Abyssal Stinger directly into the core housing at the base of the neck. Absolute Eclipse released at the moment of penetration. The concentrated concept of decay tore through the refined internal architecture without resistance. White light flared once from the sensor crest—bright enough to cast sharp shadows across the entire command chamber—then died.

The Sector 03 Authority locked in place.

Gray cracks spread across every plate and joint. Within seconds the entire frame began to break apart, collapsing into a spreading mound of dark metal fragments and fine ash.

Silence returned to the chamber.

[Sector 03 Authority Construct Destroyed.]

[Experience gained: 265,000.]

[Level Up! You are now Level 52.]

[Absolute Extraction Activated...]

Strength +21

Agility +16

Constitution +21

Mana +18

Maximum Mana permanently increased by +310.

The surge of power settled cleanly into Leon’s frame. He stood amid the settling ash and opened his status.

[STATUS MENU]

Name: Leon Graves

Class: Finality Sovereign – Ashen Eclipse (Rank: SSS)

Level: 52

Health: 23,240 / 23,240

Mana: 14,480 / 14,480

[ATTRIBUTES]

Strength: 822

Agility: 592

Constitution: 834

Mana: 733

Perception: 166

The numbers reflected the new baseline. He closed the panel.

Around him the command chamber began its controlled shutdown. Circuits in the walls dimmed and went dark. Floating displays of production data flickered out one by one. Through the external panels he could see the effect spreading across the Fabrication Basin—assembly lines slowing, fabrication spires reducing output, emergency deployment signals cutting off mid-sequence. The unified control network of Sector 03 was collapsing without its central authority.

Leon walked to the center of the dais. Among the fragments of the authority construct lay a single intact object: a dense, hexagonal tablet of black metal etched with layered silver circuitry. When he picked it up, the previous keys in his inventory resonated in quiet sequence.

[Sector 03 Control Core acquired.]

[Administrative rights over Primary Fabrication Basin transferred.]

[Production and deployment protocols for Sector 03 have been suspended.]

[Transit pathways to adjacent high-security sectors and the central Floor 9 administrative spine are now accessible.]

He stored the core.

Outside the tower, new transit channels of violet light were already unfolding across the mid-tier platforms of the basin, responding to the change in control. One path led deeper into the manufacturing complex. Another angled sharply toward a distant, far larger structure that rose above the basin’s rim—an angular black spire that dwarfed the surrounding fabrication towers, its surface covered in the densest circuitry he had yet seen on Floor 9.

The central administrative spine of the floor.

Leon adjusted the collar of his duster. The ash-gray undertone along the edges of the Void Monarch Set remained visible under the fading lights of the chamber.

He left the command level and began the descent, the quiet pressure of Ashen Eclipse spreading through the darkening corridors behind him.

Sector 03 had been erased.

The Primary Fabrication Basin was no longer producing assets for the floor’s defense.

And the true administrative heart of Floor 9 now lay directly ahead.

The Finality Sovereign walked toward it without slowing.

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