"Your old life was a single pixel," the voice said. "We will teach you to paint with galaxies."
The training was brutal. The Uber Protegit didn't have weapons—it was a weapon. Its primary cannon, the Chronos Lance , didn't just destroy shields; it aged them, turning nano-alloys into rust in a single shot. Its secondary system, Void Shift , allowed Kael to phase his ship partially out of reality, letting enemy fire pass through him like a ghost. darkorbit uber protegit
Then they found him.
Two more shots. The dreadnought's engines turned to brittle, orange-brown dust. The ship drifted, helpless. "Your old life was a single pixel," the voice said