Chapter 40: Perfect Synchronization

The final system message remained suspended in midair above the ruined medical bay, glowing with a brilliant crimson light.

[RESONANCE: 100%]

[STATUS: COMPLETE SYNCHRONIZATION]

[ERROR: SUCH COMPATIBILITY SHOULD NOT EXIST IN THE INTERSTELLAR ERA.]

Neither Rhaevia nor Raevor moved a single physical muscle, their hands still tightly intertwined on the deck. Then, slowly, the violent, chaotic pressure surrounding their bodies began to alter its frequency.

The overwhelming mental energy that had previously been tearing through Rhaevia’s body suddenly became calm and steady. It was not growing weaker, but rather becoming completely controlled.

Rhaevia’s dark eyes widened as she felt the profound physical difference within her mind. The chaotic currents racing through her mental pathways were being redirected, organized, and stabilized by another powerful consciousness.

Raevor was actively taking the violent burden into his own Sentinel channels.

At the exact same microsecond, the suffocating pressure crushing his 3S Sentinel pathways began to disappear into thin air. His heavy breathing immediately became steadier, his heaving chest relaxing.

The sharp, throbbing pain behind his temples vanished entirely. His previously strained muscles relaxed, releasing the unbearable physical weight he had been supporting.

Raevor slowly looked down at their intertwined hands, his dark eyes searching their locked fingers.

"Our mental energies are actively regulating each other," he observed, his raspy voice regaining its usual deep composure.

Rhaevia offered a slow, measured nod of her head.

"I can feel it," she whispered softly.

Their mental cores had become permanently connected. They were no longer merely synchronized on a surface level. They were perfectly synchronized.

Every violent energy surge originating from Rhaevia was immediately balanced by Raevor’s Sentinel power. Every defensive reaction flaring up from Raevor was instantly softened by the stabilizing force of her 3S Guide aura.

Neither entity was dominating or suppressing the other. They were effortlessly completing each other’s neural loops.

Rhaevia slowly closed her eyes, exhaling a quiet breath. For the first time since her full awakening had begun, she could breathe normally without feeling as though her body would shatter.

The ancient force sealed inside her soul no longer felt like a raging, destructive ocean. It felt like a vast, limitless sea resting beneath a perfectly still sky.

"Raevor..." she called out softly, her voice steadying.

"I’m right here," Raevor replied, his long fingers tightening reassuringly around hers.

"I can control it now," Rhaevia said, opening her eyes to reveal a crystal-clear blue radiance.

Raevor’s strict, battle-hardened eyes softened slightly as he looked down at her.

"Then don’t fight the tide," he instructed gently.

Rhaevia looked directly into his dark pupils.

"Guide it?" she asked.

A faint, genuine smile appeared on his lips for the first time.

"Exactly," he murmured.

However, the flagship’s physical systems were not nearly as fortunate as the two 3S entities standing in the room. The accumulated, high-density energy radiating from their synchronization had nowhere else to escape within the sealed compartment.

Every high-tech instrument and diagnostic array inside the medical bay suddenly activated simultaneously, overriding their breaker systems.

[WARNING!]

[WARNING!]

[WARNING!]

The damaged monitoring systems began screaming loudly, flashing bright red alert banners across every dead screen.

Across the massive military academy grounds located several kilometers below on the planet’s surface, every high-grade mental energy detector registered an impossible spike in environmental pressure.

Inside the central monitoring station, technicians stared at their main tactical displays in absolute, helpless horror.

"What on earth is that reading?" a technician yelled, his hands hovering over the flashing board.

"Increase the orbital sensor range immediately!" the supervisor shouted over the blaring alarm sirens.

"We already have!" the operator screamed back frantically.

"Then increase it again!" the supervisor barked, leaning over the console.

A senior technician slammed both of his palms against the metal console in sheer frustration. The numerical metrics on the central monitor continued climbing far beyond standard imperial parameters.

[COMBINED ENERGY OUTPUT: CRITICAL]

[SOURCE: UNKNOWN]

[SOURCE: TWO 3S ENTITIES]

Then, every single energy-detection instrument across the academy exploded simultaneously.

BOOM!

Holographic displays shattered into millions of sparkling fragments of visual light. Heavy energy scanners overloaded with sharp pops of fried conduits, filling the control rooms with dark smoke.

Reinforced mental resonance chambers burst apart under the sheer electromagnetic feedback. The academy’s central monitoring array released a deafening electrical crack before plunging the entire facility into absolute darkness.

Out on the training grounds, hundreds of students stopped their drills to stare upward into the sky.

"What just happened?" a cadet stammered, pointing toward the clouds.

"I don’t know!" his squad leader shouted back, checking his dead wrist terminal.

"The entire planetary detection network just went offline!" another student yelled in panic.

High above the clouds, high-orbit military satellites began automatically responding to the sudden loss of planetary telemetry. One after another, heavy orbital reconnaissance systems automatically redirected their optical and energy sensors directly toward the flagship.

[SATELLITE 01: ENERGY ANOMALY DETECTED.]

[SATELLITE 04: ANALYZING.]

[SATELLITE 07: ANALYSIS FAILED.]

[SATELLITE 12: ENERGY SIGNATURE EXCEEDS STANDARD 3S PARAMETERS.]

[SATELLITE 19: SECONDARY SIGNATURE DETECTED.]

The orbital systems combined both individual telemetry readings into a single analytical ledger. A new, terrifying calculation materialized across the global defense grid.

[RHAEVIA RYTHUNDEIR + RAEVOR VEYR]

[COMBINED RESONANCE: 100%]

[ENERGY OUTPUT: UNDEFINED]

The automated military satellites instantly transmitted the unprecedented data to the highest offices of Imperial High Command.

Within seconds, an ultra-classified, sealed tactical report was automatically generated within the capital’s central star sector.

[CLASSIFICATION: LEVEL BLACK]

[DISTRIBUTION: RESTRICTED]

[SUBJECT: RYTHUNDEIR, RHAEVIA]

[CURRENT STATUS: FULLY AWAKENED 3S GUIDE]

Several lines of detailed analytical assessment unspooled beneath the official designation.

[MENTAL OUTPUT: EXCEEDS STANDARD 3S PARAMETERS.]

[GUIDE-SENTINEL SYNCHRONIZATION: 100%.]

[COMBINED ENERGY RESPONSE: UNSTABLE FOR CURRENT IMPERIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS.]

Then, the final strategic assessment materialized at the bottom of the glowing screen.

The high-ranking intelligence officer reading the incoming document stopped breathing entirely. His pale fingers trembled noticeably over the surface of his translucent holographic screen.

"No... this can’t be real..." he whispered to the empty room.

He read the single, terrifying sentence again. Then he read it a third time in complete, horrified silence.

Finally, the official report displayed its ultimate, unalterable conclusion across the imperial defense network:

"THE RYTHUNDEIR GIRL MAY BE CAPABLE OF SURPASSING 3S."