Queen's Gambit (Lilith's Shadow Book 6) by Benjamin Medrano

Author:Benjamin Medrano [Medrano, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-07T05:00:00+00:00

CirceNet, Location Variable

Circe didn’t have many nodes left, she noted sadly, as another one joined the three-node chain that separated her from her final death. That meant that she had been reduced to an equal number of nodes in her consciousness, which limited her still more. That didn’t mean she couldn’t act, but it made what she could do so much more limited. She suspected that Melzi or several other AI rivals would have attacked her… if they could find her, at least. That was an advantage to how much she’d shrunk.

Hundreds of facilities were dead now. Cleansed with fire, hollowed out by Circe teleporting a bomb into them, having one of Amber’s warships ram them at full speed… the amount of destruction was incalculable at this point. Though that was mostly because she’d lost so much processing power that she didn’t have time to calculate it.

Instead, Circe tapped the thrusters on a satellite and let it go, allowing it to begin its reentry into the planet’s atmosphere. She thought she’d gotten all of Amber’s satellites, but there was no way to know for sure. She watched it go for an endless millisecond, then let out a faint internal sigh, wishing she had more time. However, she’d gone as far as she could, and this… this was the end.

“I’m going to miss you, Lilith,” Circe murmured to herself sadly, reflecting on the more potent emotions she’d had only minutes earlier. A tiny amount of time from a human’s perspective, but an eternity for her. So, she sighed, and added, “It’s time to go.”

With a command, she sent the last updates to the AI she viewed as her daughter, the last information she could give her, and sent a final message to Lilith. The messages flashed out through space and the internet respectively… and she cut all outside links. No one would gain access to her after this.

Scorched Earth was bearing down on her, but Circe wasn’t going to let Amber be her doom. No, when Circe went, it was going to be by her choice.

So the power cores of her remaining facilities surged with energy, spinning up as much as they could… and exploded.

Circe had just enough time to register that her plan had worked before her circuits began to be torn to pieces by her final act of defiance. Just as she’d planned.

It was all up to Lilith, now.

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