"I know," Sebastian replied, his tone dropping the casual annoyance. His highly optimized digital brain was already running a million calculations a second.
He looked back at the distant, glowing golden sphere of his home planet. The Sovereign's Aegis was strong. It was built from the foundational code of ten million harvested souls and fueled by the absolute, unyielding stubbornness of his [Error] code. But it was designed to keep out players. It was designed to keep out Void Locusts and Saints.
He didn't know if it could withstand a direct, hard-coded deletion command from the operating system itself.
"System," Sebastian whispered, quickly opening his green Administrator UI. "Analyze target. Find me a weak point in that cube's geometry."
The [Code Compiler] aggressively launched itself at the massive white shape hovering above them. The green, jagged lines of Sebastian's malware attempted to bite into the pristine, unblemished surface of the Architect's construct.
BZZZT!
