***
Each of the five squad leaders led their squadrons through the dark tunnels, diving deeper into the Behemoth's domain with each step.
They battled fiercely to stop Templar from setting up their Thumpers, which were later found out to simply be neural network disruptors, set up on old-world frequencies.
This meant that it would only affect the AI manager and its systems, not anything else, it wouldn't even affect Lyra since, unlike it, her systems were based on the new world, not the old.
She just had an access key to the old world.
But that didn't diminish the consequences of their failure.
In any case, if fate had come to pass, what would the platoon, or rather, Lyra being there even do?
Well, actually... she could do something that Amon couldn't.
Something that only she, an AI, could do.
Make a deal with the ruin's manager.
And that might just save Amon the effort of dealing with a Behemoth.
