Amy was clad in an improved multidimensional-transit powered Armor, her whole body wrapped in silver-blue blazing sparks, and in her emerald-green eyes burned resolute determination.
Yet a subtle strangeness permeated the air, making her brows slowly knit; this aura came from the corruptive entropy-spore, the most destructive bio-information virus of the Oblivion Mothership, eroding flesh and data structures at terrifying speed.
She rapidly adjusted the Defense Array, throwing herself fully into resisting the incursion.
But even so, a mass of eerie black-purple spores stabbed into her left eye like a Demon, crystallizing its convenient neural pathways into cold, rock-hard stone in an instant.
"Ah..." A cry of pain tore from her throat, the bone-deep agony as if ripping her very Soul apart; she clutched her cheek and staggered back several steps, breath sharp and chaotic.
Warning signals flashed across the holographic interface: "Biological tissues and electronic nerves have been affected by entropy-spores. Immediately sever the damaged visual nerve, or the infection will rapidly spread to the cerebral core system."
Annie’s urgent order came at once: "Amy! You must cut the left visual nerve! I’ve prepared a virtual-feedback fusion device for you; it can help stabilize your consciousness flow after you lose sight!"
Darkness shrouded Amy’s heart, but she clenched her teeth and held on: "No matter what, I won’t be brought down by this Curse... Protecting the New Era is my only faith!"
After a brief silence, she decisively drew a nano-grade high-frequency laser blade from the back of her Battle Armor and swiftly severed the infected, crystallized visual nerve.
A searing chill pierced through her Soul, her whole body seeming to go instantly numb and paralyzed.
But soon, with Annie activating the device to assist, a warm current flowed slowly along her veins, stabilizing the shattered remnants of her consciousness, while the semi-virtual, semi-physical Perception system began to replace her lost vision, allowing her to press forward by relying on faint Perception.
Meanwhile, David led the main assault squad in a ferocious charge on the first guard hatch.
His phase dagger flared with crimson-gold and ghostly blue flames, each swing accompanied by intense decree-like ripples that shook the very fabric of space.
His voice was low and commanding: "Maintain formation, everyone—beware Energy backlash and information traps!"
Mechanical Guard units surged forth, their bodies sheathed in gleaming metal armor, faces expressionless as they spewed continuous barrages of red-purple Energy pulse fire.
The turrets spewed firelines like the eyes of a Demon, endlessly weaving phantom-like networks that expanded into encircling webs; every breakout the squad attempted came at a terrible cost—several soldiers’ backs were scorched and melted, some even briefly lost mobility due to encoded electromagnetic interference, only managing to regroup under Sofia’s sword-cleaving cover.
On the holographic display, data leapt and shifted without pause, lines of regulatory Runes constantly reconstructing and stacking, like living data entities fighting desperately against the assault.
Hilvia held the command seat in the control center, Scepter in hand, continuously channeling Soul Contract power into the outer Barrier while chanting prayer Spells to bolster the soldiers’ Spiritual Power. "Hold fast... Order is eternal—we will see the dawn!"
At this moment, Annie sat in the comms bay, her cold gaze fixed on the screens as she tirelessly tuned and cracked code, waging war against the Twilight Council’s layered encoding locks.
After multiple failures, she finally caught a hidden flaw buried in their code and used the Energy unleashed by fragments of an ancient forbidden Spell to fuel her decryption routines.
"Just hold on—give me a little more time..."
And now, Amy—badly damaged yet iron-willed—followed the sound and vaulted into the heart of the battlefield.
The semi-virtual Perception allowed her to precisely track movement patterns and enemy positions, every step taken with meticulous caution.
Though her left eye had become a transparent Ice Crystal, seemingly blind, it did not hinder her razor-sharp Perception from catching the slightest shifts, letting her explore every potential threat in the environment in another way!
Suddenly, a mass of black-purple corruptive entropy-spores lunged from the darkness, coiling around her right arm like serpentine venom and striving to spread toward her chest!
Amy screamed, wrenching out her Nanosecond Oscillation Gun with her last reserves of strength and unleashing a furious, explosive barrage!
She then slipped aside with agile, lithe movements, evading the chain of follow-up attacks.
At the very Limit, she fought and thrashed on the thin edge of survival, all only to continue bearing the mission of guarding the New Era!
David saw this through remote monitoring, his voice coming over the comms, "Stay calm—we’re coming to support you, now!"
Even before his words had fully fallen, he was already leading the slaughter vanguard in a charge to her aid, the crimson-gold and ghostly blue flames on his Armor roaring like a comet crashing into the enemy lines, unstoppable and all-devouring!
Hilvia swiftly unleashed Scepter Rune chains, coordinating the Knight Order through distant Spiritual links to sweep forward in support, turning their offensive sharper and more devastating.
Meanwhile, Annie used Magic to construct an information net-shield that combined Barrier and healing functions, providing the wounded with essential protection and rapid functional recovery support!
As time ticked away, the assault reached its peak:
The structures of the three "Chrono-Law Escort Frigates" were gradually collapsing, their layers of information shields disintegrating one by one, while members of the New Era Corps displayed superhuman resolve and courage amid the trials.
In the command hall, Annie sat with a grave expression before a console glittering with complex Runes and data streams.
On the massive holographic screen, surging information ripples flickered densely and chaotically, like dandelion seeds scattered by storm winds, every stream of data bearing an enormous load and unfathomable patterns.
"The firewall’s core layer has begun to fluctuate violently." Annie murmured to herself, gaze locked on the center of the screen where an information matrix writhed and shifted form like a living thing.
Her hands flew over the virtual keyboard, deconstructing layers of encrypted Runes one by one, never forgetting to constantly adjust the auxiliary Magic Array to ward off the lethal traps buried deep within the system.