He didn't pull away. He dug his glitching, malware-soaked fingers directly into the flawless golden metal of the cuffs.
"Multiplier!" Sebastian roared.
He forcefully rammed the 10,000x Nexus Glitch straight down into his hands. He took the horrific, corrosive mixture of absolute entropy and raw software error and multiplied its potency by ten thousand lifetimes.
The clash between the ultimate malware and the perfect Admin-code was deafening.
*SKREEEEEECH!*
It sounded like a massive circular saw biting into a sheet of solid titanium. Bright, blinding sparks of conflicting data erupted from the contact point, showering the black glass plateau in a deadly rain of red and gold pixels.
"Sebastian, your hands!" Valerie yelled, her astral form flaring with desperate blue light as she watched his fingers literally begin to un-render from the sheer feedback loop.
"I'm fine!" Sebastian lied through gritted teeth, pushing even harder. "Just a little... software update!"
