"Then we fight together," Ethan said.
Primordial Force erupted out of him.
At the sa ti, Thalorien's ocean energy spread in a rolling surge.
Two powers—
and instead of clashing, they resonated.
They gave their orders in the sa breath.
The goblin legion charged.
The War Machines rumbled forward.
Thalaryn's troops swung in from the flank to encircle.
The Sky Fortress opened fire.
The battlefield went off the rails in an instant.
For the first ti, the chanoid formation showed real disorder.
And right then, Ethan caught sothing off.
At the center of the battlefield…
a chanoid hovered there in silence.
It didn't move.
But the other chanoids moved around it, orbiting like satellites around a star.
In its chest—
a blood-red core was embedded.
Across the core's surface, golden runes rotated slowly.
[WARNING]
[High Command Unit Detected]
[Threat Level: EXTRE]
Ethan's pupils contracted.
A commander.
Not a standard unit.
Ethan locked his gaze on the chanoid with the blood-red core.
Instinct scread at him.
This thing—
was the nerve center of the entire army.
If he destroyed it…
the whole battle would flip.
No hesitation.
Primordial Force gathered fast in his palm.
The air warped.
Light compressed.
A massive sphere of energy ford in seconds, destruction churning inside it.
Ethan snapped his hand forward.
The energy sphere tore through the sky, shooting straight for the blood-red core in the chanoid's chest.
BOOM!!!
The explosion swallowed the target.
But the very next second, Ethan's eyes tightened.
As the smoke cleared—
the chanoid was still there.
In front of its body, a heavy energy barrier floated in place.
Complex runes flowed across its surface.
That attack—
had been completely blocked.
Ethan imdiately initiated a system scan.
[Scanning…]
[Target Classification: Nexaris Command Unit]
[Power Signature Analysis: Hybrid Structure]
[Detected Attributes: 8]
[Warning: Target possesses multi-layered dinsional protection]
Ethan's breathing sank a notch.
Eight attributes.
That was way beyond a normal chanoid.
Then the system chid again:
[Additional Core Detected]
[Location: Internal Structure]
Ethan's gaze sharpened.
An internal core.
aning—
even if he shattered the outer core, it wouldn't truly die.
Ethan got it now.
Conventional attacks were pointless.
He had to destroy it from the inside.
The thought had barely finished forming when the two runes inside him—
Darkness Rune.
Light Rune.
—flared at the sa ti.
And a brand-new ability surfaced in his awareness.
Ethan didn't use it right away.
Because the system had warned him before.
This ability—
was insanely risky.
If he failed…
his consciousness might be permanently trapped inside the target.
But now…
he didn't have a choice.
Ethan drew in a slow breath.
Then—
he released his physical structure.
His body began to collapse.
Not shatter.
Transform.
Turning into countless black particles.
Every single particle carried his awareness.
Everyone on the battlefield froze, because Ethan—
was gone.
In his place floated a storm of black grit, hanging in the air.
Across from him, the chanoid clearly sensed sothing was wrong.
Its core flickered, trying to scan.
But it was already too late.
The black particles ignored the energy barrier and passed straight through.
Not physically.
As "information."
They slipped into its structure.
In the next instant, Ethan saw it.
Not with eyes—
with consciousness.
He saw the chanoid's interior.
Energy circuits.
Control nodes.
Core architecture.
And—
another consciousness.
Cold.
Pure.
chanical.
It noticed Ethan imdiately.
[INTRUSION DETECTED]
[Initiating Purge Protocol]
The entire internal space shuddered.
Energy surged, trying to erase Ethan.
But Ethan didn't retreat.
His black particles spread faster.
Linked.
Synchronized.
Corroded.
The Darkness Rune began devouring control permissions.
The Light Rune began rewriting structural logic.
This was war.
Not a physical war—
a war of consciousness.
The chanoid's system counterattacked like it was possessed, trying to expel him.
But Ethan had already seized the critical nodes.
He cut off its energy supply.
Shut down its defense protocols.
And finally—
he found it.
The core control hub.
Ethan's consciousness poured over it.
In an instant…
all resistance stopped.
Outside.
That chanoid suddenly went rigid.
Its core stopped flickering.
Then it lit again.
But this ti—
the glow
didn't belong to Nexaris.
It belonged to Ethan.
Ethan condensed back into a solid body, standing where he'd been.
He could feel it.
That chanoid—
was answering his will.
Like it was his own body now.
Absolute obedience.
Ethan slowly raised his hand.
The chanoid raised its hand too.
Perfectly synced.
Ethan smiled.
This was the first ti—
he'd truly taken control of a war unit from another civilization.
He said softly, "Now."
"You belong to ."
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
Brutal energy erupted from the chanoid Ethan now controlled.
Its core burned brighter than before.
More stable.
More dangerous.
Ethan wasn't just driving its body anymore.
He was using its authority.
Power gathered fast.
In the chanoid's palm.
Compressing.
Spinning.
A huge energy sphere took shape in seconds.
The air warped.
Space itself trembled.
Then Ethan swung his hand.
The energy sphere ripped through the sky and slamd into the chanoid ranks.
BOOM!!!
The blast swallowed everything.
Five chanoids were thrown back like toys.
Their armor split apart.
Their cores flickered.
The battlefield went quiet for a heartbeat.
Because everyone realized—
that attack hadn't co from Erald Castle.
Not from the Thalaryn.
But—
from Nexaris's own command unit.
Thalorien hovered in the distance, his pupils tightening.
He could feel it clearly.
That chanoid's core structure had changed.
That wasn't Nexaris's energy frequency anymore.
It was—
Ethan.
Ethan's voice ca through the chanoid's vocal system, cold and amplified:
"Your command authority."
"Belongs to now."
The entire chanoid legion stalled for a split second.
Because the Nexaris army wasn't just an army.
It was a network.
Every unit—
linked to the command core.
And now…
that command core had been taken over by Ethan.
Ethan didn't stop.
He kept expanding his control.
He triggered the black-particle state again, releasing it from the commander unit's body.
They weren't matter.
They were carriers of information.
Every particle held Ethan's control signal.
They spread.
Made contact.
Invaded.
The nearby chanoids sensed the anomaly imdiately.
Their cores flickered, trying to resist.
[WARNING]
[Command Override Attempt Detected]
[Initiating Counterasure]
But what they were facing wasn't so ordinary intrusion.
It was a control signal backed by commander-level authority.
Their defense systems—
couldn't refuse orders from "highest clearance."
One.
Two.
Ten.
Dozens.
Their cores dimd, one after another.
Then they lit up again.
Only this ti—
the glow turned a deep, pitch-black.
They turned slowly.
No longer facing Erald Castle.
But facing—
the Nexaris legion.
Then they attacked.
BOOM!!!
The first chanoid was ripped apart.
The second was punched through by concentrated energy.
The third had its core destroyed outright.
The battlefield descended into total chaos.
And worse—
the remaining chanoids didn't fight back.
Because their systems were colliding with themselves.
Their friend-or-foe identification was crashing.
Their IFF scread that these units were "allies."
They couldn't attack.
But reality—
those "allies" were tearing them to pieces.
That logical contradiction made them seize up for precious seconds.
Thalorien spotted the opening instantly.
His voice rolled across the Thalaryn ranks.
"Attack!"
The Thalaryn army surged forward at once.
Ocean energy swept the battlefield.
The Sky Fortress opened fire in tandem.
War Machines crashed into the enemy line.
And the entire Nexaris legion began to collapse.
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