Sector Zero was not a hallway. It was a localized, subterranean cathedral of absolute synthetic supremacy.
As Ren stepped through the ruined, retracted blast doors, the claustrophobic dimensions of the white corridors violently expanded. The chamber was a massive, perfectly spherical cavern, easily five hundred feet in diameter. The walls were not lined with concrete or polymer; they were a continuous, blindingly bright grid of pulsing, liquid-cooled quantum fusion conduits.
The air here was freezing, entirely sterile, and practically humming with the sheer, catastrophic volume of artificial energy being generated.
Suspended perfectly in the dead center of the massive spherical room was the Architect.
