Two months into the war, and NOVA had deed this war to have failed its objective, especially since they had been unable to even force Rui Quarrier to join the battlefield.
[If I am to win this war, I need to eliminate the greatest factor of success that the Panamic Alliance has.]
BZZZT
An image of the Emperor of Harmony erged in her mind along with the rest of his profile.
It was very rare that NOVA would place such great weight on one individual, that too a non-pathwalker individual, but she had to straightforwardly admit that the Emperor of Harmony was simply too dangerous.
That was why she had decided.
[He needs to go.]
There was no question about that. The wily emperor was even more dangerous to her war efforts than the Dawnbringer, who was rely a tactical powerhouse in comparison. She could handle the Dawnbringer rather confidently as a top-ten powerhouse herself; she had already overco him in their little ga of cat and mouse.
Of course, that didn’t translate to a combat victory, but given that his greatest strength was his mind, she was certain that being plainly superior to him in his greatest avenue of power was enough to keep him in check.
Of course, her recent realizations about the fact that Rui Quarrier had information on the higher Realm of power made her wary that he could potentially break through at so point.
But that was all the more reason to win this war and get a hold of him and anybody else on the continent who had information on the higher Realm of power. But that was not likely to be an acute threat, considering that soone as ancient as Mother Maeria had yet to succeed and didn’t appear to be too close either.
What she feared more acutely was sobody whose diplomatic ability was truly beyond even her comprehension.
She had been trying to find his location, but the wise Emperor had gone into complete hiding, never showing his face in public or even in private, even once after the press conference that led NOVA to trigger her war. Finding him in a nation in which she had almost no intelligence network set up was impractical.
[An assassination is unlikely, but... there are other options.]
BZZZT
She brought up several project files before her.
[Project Infiltration]
This was a project that employed and built upon the cyber infiltration technology that she had deployed to singlehandedly take over the entire continent and enslave all tekvores. She had already conceived of deploying the sa idea against enemies that it could work on.
The sentinels ca to mind, for they were half tekvorian and had many of the sa weaknesses to a lesser extent as tekvorians. There were also the dwarves who relied heavily on technology.
Unfortunately, it was extrely difficult for us to deploy these chanisms against forces that had their own top-ten powerhouse. It was also difficult to deploy these asures outside her domain of influence, since these asures required institutional support systems for long-term control, and also because they were far outside of her range of influence to directly infiltrate.
[Negatron matter is a potential solution. If I open a wormhole directly to one of them, I could theoretically take over them, but...]
The issue was that it was too dangerous.
Her new brain was composed of a quantum supercomputer; it was extrely delicate and fragile. The wormhole would give her enemies direct access to the core of Greater Tekvoria. And if, by chance, they managed to get in like Rui once had, she would be put in great risk. She would need to infiltrate them before they could get through the wormhole, which was extrely difficult.
[I need a powerful agent.]
Soone who could put up a fight against a top-ten powerhouse. Soone who could fight while also creating an opportunity for her to infiltrate and enslave her enemies. Preferably, a powerful pathwalker who could fight top-ten powerhouses, who also used technology that could serve as an anchor for her to infiltrate her enemies.
BZZZT
She received a notification from a long-range surveillance on the western coast of Greater Tekvoria. A notification of a lone distant machine erging from the depths of the ocean, unnoticed by then.
It was a humanoid machine.
It was pitch-black with a surface so smooth that it was nothing short of a perfect mirror, reflecting the bright light of the afternoon sun.
RUMBLE
The world shook under the sheer presence of the great machine as the very fabric of space and ti curved underneath its weight.
Within the depths of the machine was an extraordinary surge of energy.
An unfathomable source of energy.
One that only a single civilization was able to produce.
[Dwarven zero-point energy core system.]
It was the cutting edge of energy systems, exclusive only to the dwarves.
It contained all the advantages of black hole energy generators, without any of the shortcomings, such as the gravity or the risks and dangers that hampered mobility.
The technology harnessed omnipresent quantum energies that existed in the vacuum at all tis, gaining a limitless energy source. The only disadvantage to the technology, the one that prevented all other civilizations from harnessing it, was that the precision demanded was a margin of error that had to be indistinguishable even on the femtoter scale.
It required an extraordinary production quality that only the best of the best dwarven craftsn could achieve.
That was the extraordinary power that she sensed within the ch.
Except, it wasn’t a ch.
It was too tall and not stout enough for a dwarven ch.
Instead, its style resembled the increasingly common Martial CHAs of the Panama Continent.
More importantly, the combat power of this individual and his vessel vastly exceeded any CHA she had been made aware of. She had no records of any such combat vessel in her intel on the Panamic Alliance.
It was a variable outside of her models.
Yet, she instantly realized that its slow approach was to indicate that it ca in peace. A CHA allied with the Panamic Alliance would not co in peace or alone, for that matter.
BZZZT
The CHA translated a single ssage to Greater Tekvoria.
"I seek alliance."
His tone was cold.
"I seek war against the Panama Continent."
NOVA grinned taphorically as she slled an opportunity.
An opportunity to overco the impedints to her goal in one fell swoop and achieve her objectives.
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