[Celestial Academy — Administrative Wing Corridor — 12:01 PM]
The first creature charged toward Grim.
Not toward the Harvester.
Toward Grim on top of the constructed creature.
The Harvester at 31,400 HP was a secondary threat.
Grim with his double‑bladed scythe active was the primary threat.
The first creature charged.
The constructed creature responded.
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Not with the speed of something alive.
With the speed of something that F1 moved directly — without the intermediary of a nervous system, without the cost of processing intention before executing it. The constructed creature responded to F1 with the zero latency of an instrument responding to its wielder.
The three tons of irregular material from two dead creatures moved toward the first creature's charge with the urgency of something that felt no fear because it had no system that produced fear.
The impact between them at the center of the corridor.
The entire corridor shifted.
