Anastasia was already executing the reconfiguration of the systems. The defensive platforms that still retained their hydraulic actuators began to turn, orienting their sensors toward the interference nodes. She did not seek a zero sum frontal confrontation; she sought to induce a parity error between the abilities of the invaders.
The Void Witch reappeared then behind the trajectory of Natacha, manifesting as a distortion in the visible spectrum. One of her annihilation rings spun on its axis, and the space around the neck of the professor began to be subtracted from the continuum. Natacha reacted through a proprioceptive reflex, spinning her vertical axis with a violent torsion. Part of the tissue of her shoulder was erased from existence instantaneously, leaving a perfect cross section where the blood was atomized.
