The observation deck had gone very, very quiet.
Professor Krenn stared at the screen with the expression of a man whose entire worldview had just been politely disassembled. "Did he…just weaponize a volcano?"
"He really weaponized a volcano," Professor Iona confirmed, her voice unnaturally calm. "Using a pulse gun to deliberately destabilize the thermal gradient of an active geological formation, thereby triggering a premature eruption that eliminated his opponent while simultaneously accepting his own elimination with a calculated timing differential."
"That's..." Krenn struggled for words. "That's not really something we could ask our students to do."
"Yeah." Iona's eyes hadn't left her data streams. "But it just shows his adaptive combat cognition is at an extraordinary level.
