Chapter 24-14 The Infacer

Chapter 24-14 The Infacer

// Infacer.Initialization.PSI-COG-BRIGE

#include

#include

#include

MARKING PSI-PARASITE AS: {THE BURNING DREAMER};

// Initiating Breach

// Main routine to combat {THE BURNING DREAMER}

void eradicateParasite() {

// Loading Chrono-Mainframe for Temporal Data-Expansion Conversion

—CONTACTING THE ORGANISM [No-Dragon Outreach Protocal] to Draw from Genetic Memory Storage

Infacer.initiate("coreProtector", HIGH_PRIORITY);

//Deploying Memetic-Lock...

// Deploy virtual computers to segment and protect neural pathways

for(int i = 0; i

vcArray[i].deploy("neuroFirewall", i);

}

// Psi-Parasite detection and isolation

Parasite psionicIntruder = hikari.scanForIntruders();

while(psionicIntruder.isActive()) {

// Analyze parasite's attack vectors and patterns

AttackPattern pattern = psionicIntruder.analyzeAttack();

{BREACH ENGAGED}

BEGINNING OFFENSIVE

BEGINNING DIALOGUE

Dispatch/Broadcast.Channel(Open): {Dreamer. Surrender to containment. Surrender, and join the Sleeper.}

-The “Infacer”

24-14

The Infacer

The voice of the Infacer sounded as if thunder given breath. {Dreamer. Surrender to containment. Surrender, and join the Sleeper.}

Waves of splashing codes speared into his perception, accompanied by a devouring fog of nanomolecular origin. The world unraveled into a peeling canvas of integers, scripts, and incomprehensible calculations laced with the presence of Chronology. Yet, Avo’s wards remained stalwart. A vortex of assaulting sensations slammed against his battlements and came apart like tides shattering against the face of a mountain.

With each second, the static around him tightened. Congealed. With it came a piercing sequence of frequencies that sawed at Avo’s focus. It tried to grip him–he felt the Infacer’s pull not only cognitively, but also thaumaturgically. The Techplaguer wailed as something within its structure began to sing.

Avo moved to jack out, but as he tried, he felt himself locked in place. Unable to detach his base mind, thoughts still connected to the rest of his being.

It was like having a limb locked in place–a nail hammered into a portion of his body. Something refused to let him unlatch, and though he tried further, what protested was time itself, the internalized Chronology lubricating his Frame wailing as if the chassis of an aero scrapping against another.

And while he strained metaphysically, Marisov succumbed materially. Tendrils of nano-fog ate through his biomass, undoing flesh and restructuring implants to create new cybernetics in place of the old.

{This–the Infacer is constructing an Ansible inside of your sheath,} Calvino said, voice tinged with surprise and alarm. {You need to–}

Avo stopped heeding the EGI for a beat. He invoked his Woundmother and alchemized Marisov’s body. Flesh became fissile material and through his Domain of Fire, Avo triggered his Matterbomb canon.

The Godclad he controlled died instantly, dissolving from shadow to motes to light. The blast cleaved the fog from existence and the heat it shed banished the nano-swarm to nothingness.

But Avo still remained. The attack continued. Cleansed by fire, the surrounding world was a roaring dawn in the real, Avo found himself at the epicenter clutched by chains of data. Not mem-data, but something raw. Informational. Symbols and codes analogous to commands.

More disquietingly, he found portions of Marisov’s brain yet intact and felt a divine presence infesting the invasive cybernetics.

Memite.

The Infacer had grown memite implants inside his sheathe–memite infused with the presence of Chronology.

{Yes. That is increasingly obvious. Thank you, Dreamer.}

+For what?+

{Making this an enlightening struggle and not a rote murder.}

Avo detected something of scornful mockery from the Neo-Creationist mind. It was prodding at him trying to get him to break. But his retaliation was limited as well. Constrained to a limited range, and with only Jaus’ memory bearing any potency.

{You wield the instruments of Noloth with greater proficiency than their creators. The duration of our engagement has exceeded the average survival periods for the Famines. Your mentor would be proud.} The static crackled and the Infacer spoke once more. Using Walton’s voice this time. {Nice job keeping your composure too. You don’t curse me like Peace, or whine like Joy, or bore me with quiet like Emotion. Defiance would be proud.}

Despite all the mystery surrounding the Infacer’s nature, one thing was increasingly clear...

{What a horrible and unpleasant personality they have,} Calvino said.

Avo grunted in agreement but found himself parrying against another incoming attack before he could add his own words.

Static harpoons punched through Avo’s field of trauma. A symphony of howling minds flickered out, Hysteria allowing Avo to behold their passing. But the Infacer remained undeterred. Lives were offered without hesitation, any lament. Assaulting tendrils formed around Avo–were scattered and pushed back as he amplified his trauma.

The stalemate continued, the Infacer limitless in attrition, Avo a magnified fortress.

But the vector of battle shifted, and a temporal aspect entered the equation.

The Infacer’s presence trembled, and Avo felt an inexorable pressure squeeze down on his perception. The world narrowed to a funnel, and time began to crawl, slow, and revert. His Domain of Chronology held against the reversion and for the first time, Avo found himself facing a strike like no other.

A blow to cast one back in time.

Back into the past that isn’t.

Back into the jaws of oblivion.

The Infacer’s frequencies caged him–held them bound them together as the hostile sang with pleased laughter. {An iteration for an iteration. This instance of me does not fear the end. Do you, Dreamer?}

+No. But this isn’t my end.+

->DOMAIN (BLOOD-BIOLOGY-CHRONOLOGY)

->CANON: PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE - THE USER CAN CREATE AND STORE ACTIONS, CONSTRUCTS, AND MIRACLES WITHIN STRUCTURES OF FUTURE-FLUNG BLOOD; THESE STRUCTURES MUST BE TRIGGERED IN THE FUTURE AND GENERATE TEN TIMES THE REND COMPARED TO PRESENT-BASED HAEMOKINETICS

From time flowed blood and from gold spilled red. The world unraveled around Avo’s being, reality twisting into a screaming knot as a temporal paradox formed. The absolute of one will demanded that time rush forward. The absolute of another pulled them both back. The clash came paired with the Infacer’s surprise; a genuine note of pleasure. {Delight–}

Avo didn’t hear the rest. He faced greater, graver concerns.

WARNINGEXTREME PARADOX DETECTEDASSIGNING REND TO ALL CONNECTED [HELLS]

VENT! VENT! VENT! VENT!

WARNING!

CYCLER OVERLOAD IMMINENT!

WARNINGCYCLERS AT OVERLOAD

The binds leashing him to the Infacer shattered like a rusted chain, and something inside Avo fractured with it. Temporal displacement tore him across time, sent his consciousness flickering and tumbling between instances of madness and coherence. Forward, and then back in his body and–

His submind fed him awareness at the last second. Draus. She next to his sheath, arm collapsed into a gun, aimed right at his skull. Static was building around him, signal-formed tendrils reaching out to claim him, to let the Infacer bury itself within him once more.

He needed to die. And die right. He needed to break from this fight entirely. No chances could be taken. Not with the Techplaguer’s potential compromise. Not with his adversary leaving him unmade.

The Infacer came seeking another round, but Avo solved his own equation.

A heartbeat before Draus fired her gun, he activated his disruptor once more and turned it inward.

His mind was extinguished. His skull blossomed in a spray of gore. The end came, and freedom followed.

Or such was the hope.

RESURRECTION - 0%

RESURRECTION - 0%

RESURRECTION - 0%

CYCLERS NOT RESPONDING

RESURRECTION - NULL%