Her veins burned as her blood turned to ash, the skin around them blackening and cracking with the heat. The pain was excruciating as she watched a rust-red blade start to grow out of the previously empty hilt. She didn’t know what the relic did, but it had to be powerful for it to be hidden away like this, so she probably had a far better chance with it in her hands than if she kept running. Her ...

_ WARNING: _**_SYSTEM FAILURE_**__

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_ LIFE SUPPORT: _**_OFFLINE

_**_ TEMPERATURE REGULATION: _**_OFFLINE

_**_ DIRECTIONAL CONTROLS: _**_OFFLINE

_**_ FOOD DISTRIBUTION: _**_OFFLINE

_**_ CRYOCHAMBERS: _**_OFFLINE_**__

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_ COMMENCING PROTOCOL: _**_DAYLIGHT_**

The overhead speakers blared, echoing over one another as they bounced through empty halls. The people meant to hear them ...

Holly felt frustration beating behind her eye in time with the metallic clangs. Above her, zipping around her lab at a speed no multi-ton object should be able to move, was a cannon. A full arcane cannon. Flying like the worlds largest insect above her head. It was not meant to be flying, but something in the construction process had gone wrong. Holly couldn’t even begin to guess what could’ve bro...