*Detonation Successful*
A small smile crept across Vera's lips, mirrored by the faint curve tugging at Aster's mouth as they stood on the bridge, the blue glow of the holographic display casting sharp shadows across their faces. The princess—ninth in line to the Kingdom's throne—and her army were ash now, obliterated in a fiery burst that answered the King's treachery with pirate steel. It wasn't the ruthless massacre they could've unleashed, but for now, it was enough—a calculated strike, a bloody tithe to their fallen. Their eyes flicked to a secondary screen, a jagged graph spiking with an elevated signal, its peak pointing toward the princess's last known coordinates. No cameras stretched far enough into the void to witness the blast, but the sensors—tuned to catch the flare of energy and light particles—confirmed it: the explosion had ripped through, a silent roar in the black.
