Chapter 714 - Book 6, Chapter 106 (1/2)

Book 6, Chapter 106 – The Divine Matrix

A city was slowly taking shape in low earth orbit Cloudhawk could see it through his h it he was able to know the situation in this floating city It rehty thousand and one hundred thousand round Two divisions of airshi+ps hovered around the structure Its doors were open, and the vast spaces within were enough to accoather their aric reasons, of course

The Temple could adjust its low earth orbit as needed Like a military spy satellite, it was easy to dispatch troops and scouts froht of eneap was discovered, they would see it and could act with haste It would take less than an hour to scramble forces and execute an attack

It was iainst! The stark rele mistake could allow the enemy to breach and destroy them

In addition the Te itsobt It periodically crossed over other Elysian do realoods from the various realms up to their fortress Even Seraphs from their respective domains were present in the Temple

Seraphs were present in all Elysian capitols They were puppets, li capability but excellent builders They worked tirelessly, building and repairing with incredible efficiency

Seraphs froht Additions had appeared on two sides of the Te port for their armadas With more space for shi+ps they could increase their forces while deterring attacks fro various towers They served ing up like bamboo shoots, they showed how quickly these war-tiainst any future Green Alliance aggression

“Well, fuck,” Cloudhawkthe connection to drop “All four realht over our heads as we speak and there's nothing we can do about it We don't have enough shi+ps in the wastes or Skycloud to deal with this, not that they're in good enough shape for the task anyway If soe we'll be stuck in a passive situation, getting beat on with no way to fight back”

The Green Alliance was in a period of post-war reconstruction Meanwhile the Supre view it seemed the Alliance would be too weak and ill-equipped to launch an attack Instead the Gods held all the cards From up there, they could launch brutal attacks whenever they pleased It was definitely an effective way to castrate the Alliance Unless he did soh for Sus

The one silver lining was that he had the Cloud God on his side So long as the deity was here to help, he had a great channel into the ene else you've learned? Like troop arrisoned forces?” It was useful infor at, Cloudhawk could organize a strike force and teleport theht buy theave a simple response: “No”

“All you Gods share a co eyes were fixed on the human “And if the Supremes do not know this information?”

That took the wind out of his sails It made sense, if the Supremes didn't kno many soldiers they had and where they were stationed then the Cloud God wouldn't either It wasn't like they could arrange everything on their own, and wouldn't even if they could They knew that the betrayer God could see into their ate sensitive s secret, to be sure Besides, the divine htforward as Cloudhawk assumed The Cloud God explained:

“Protection mechanisms exist within the matrix Every day I find it more difficult to extract information In particular, matters of military or specific areas”

Weren't the Gods supposed to be a race all about openness? Didn't this go against what their race stood for? But these protections the Cloud God mentioned weren't from any God in particular They were built into the ainst betrayers like hi with two psychic 'cords' as part of their being They linked the Gods to the divine ht and memory, and the other to download information In circumstances such as what happened to the Cloud God and the Shepherd God, they could sever one while keeping the other That was how the Cloud God knehat Su with the God King's orders, it becaainst his kind

Disloyalty was a rare thing a was ih that it could happen As a result, the divine matrix evolved a set of countermeasures

One could think of the e amounts of data Aberrations like the Cloud God were a virus, so cleansing mechanisms were implemented to deal with them

“That's too abstract” Cloudhaasn't a God He couldn't grasp the complexity of the syste Cloudhawk's confusion, the God gave it aon

“There h the lock and access the matrix yourself But it will come at a cost And it will be perilous”

“What?” Cloudhaear he heard wrong, but he knew that wasn't the case The Cloud God hadn't stuttered – obviously, since he didn't really 'talk' He communed directly with so “Enter the matrix?[1] Is that really possible?”

He had to adht The Gods were a powerful and ive Cloudhawk a glie benefit