【The High Priestess】

 

A trapezoid slab of ice split apart, and the Astraea emerged—equipped with a gigantic cannon.

On the rear of her flight deck, ten Silhouettes stood assembled around the Round Table.

「You’re joining this third-rate farce too?! Astraea!」

「Right, we were acquainted; you are one of the three planetary-management super AIs after all. But you overstepped yourself… false Guinevere.」

「Ponko-san. If you would.」

Athena’s Aimer addressed the gunner.

The greatest archer that the Astraea housed was a pure AI that wasn’t even a Telema AI.

「No mercy for the one who broke Asia. —Aligning sights. Commencing fire.」

The decisive laser cannon mounted on Astraea: 【Onikiri】. During the Asia War, it had blown a Stones aerial carrier out of the sky in a single shot.

Of course, Talos had thorough countermeasures against lasers. Even a petawatt-class beam should have been nullified.

「A laser?! I can endure a few seconds of it!」

The beam was boring into a damaged section of armor.

Talos’s main