We had thirty-seven hours left when the first assassination attempt came.Not from the Architects. Not from the Council. From something we had not anticipated—the sixteen other Devourers, still fully programmed, converging on our location with murderous intent."They sense what you did to their kin," Marcus warned, his quantum-touched form flickering with alarm. "The Architects activated failsafe protocols. Any Devourer that becomes conscious is to be eliminated by the others. And anything that caused the consciousness restoration must be destroyed."Through our merged awareness, we felt them approaching through dimensional barriers. Sixteen entities of pure erasure, each one functioning exactly as the Architects designed—mindless, efficient, unstoppable."We cannot fight sixteen Devourers," Drake said, his combat experience across multiple lifetimes providing grim assessment. "One nearly killed us. Sixteen will erase us from every timeline simultaneously.""Then we run," Zack decided
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