Knight's eyes settled after he said it, the hesitation fading as he turned toward the exit and started moving, and I followed without another word as we slipped out of the storage room and into the open streets. The city wasn't chaotic, just occupied, with patrols moving along the main paths and between the houses, and we kept our distance from them, cutting through side lanes and broken passages while keeping a steady pace toward the center. Whenever a group crossed too close, we adjusted without slowing too much, slipping past their line of sight and continuing forward until the density of the buildings began to shift and the central structure ca into view.
The mayor's building stood apart from the rest. We stopped just short of its outer range, using the edge of a damaged building as partial cover, and in that brief pause I checked my status.
[Overdrive Charge - 200%]
Knight stepped closer, his attention still on the building as he spoke, explaining the next steps. He told he could take fully into phase, removing any presence or interaction for a short window, and when I asked how long, he answered three seconds.
For that was enough.
He added that once it started there would be no adjustnt, that perception would shift and the world would lose its normal form, and that whatever needed to be done had to be executed in one continuous motion, and I nodded once, tightening my grip on the axe as we moved again, closing the remaining distance without rushing until we reached the rear side of the house.
Knight stopped there and turned slightly, placing his hand on my shoulder, and the mont he activated his ability the world changed as color drained out of everything at once, leaving only a flat grey space where shapes existed without depth and sound faded into sothing distant. The ground beneath my feet no longer felt solid, and the air offered no resistance, leaving only direction to follow.
I moved the mont it settled, activating Radiant Drive and driving forward in a straight line as the wall in front of us ceased to matter, the structure offering no resistance as we passed through it, and the interior ford around us in the sa motion without interruption. The second step carried us fully inside, the room resolving ahead within that greyed perception, and at its center Ubai Hefu the commander sat, cross-legged, a scroll resting in his hands.
I stopped directly behind him as the last fraction of those three seconds began to collapse, the phase already thinning as sensation returned, and I shifted Overdrive into Berserk in the sa motion, letting the stored force surge through my body as I invoked Limitless and drew everything into a single point.
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