"Wh—what?!"
The Red Empress nearly stumbled where she stood.
"You..." She parted her lips to rebuke him, but the words died in her throat. Processing what he had just said, she couldn't actually fault his logic. In fact, it was a terrifying truth. Still, something about his attitude felt outrageously absurd, even if she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Defeated, she could only shoot him an exasperated glare.
Kallus merely chuckled, brushing off her glare with an easy grin.
"Hehehe. Deploy the stellar gravitational field—seal this entire star system completely."
"Understood," the Red Empress replied with an exaggerated roll of her eyes.
Along the ventral hull of the Obliterator, several armored hatches slid open. A cluster of metallic spherical probes ejected into the void, vanishing from their coordinates in the span of a few seconds.
