I push harder, drawing more power from the earth, my physical body trembling violently. Kieran! Finish it!
Ninety-nine percent, Kieran projects, his voice a roar of triumph. Say goodnight.
He slams his fist onto the central geometric node.
The inversion completes.
The massive, spinning cylinder of the terraforming engine shudders. The violet light flashes blindingly bright, then instantly shifts to a deep, bruised purple. The engine tries to vent the excess energy, but the Ouroboros loop Kieran has woven traps it inside.
The energy accelerates, spinning faster and faster, feeding back into itself, creating an infinite, inescapable feedback loop of entropy.
Brace! I scream.
The engine implodes.
It doesn't explode outward. It collapses inward, folding in on itself with a sickening, b
