In the corner of the sector was an echo who was processing its gathered data without the disadvantage of being tired and needing to sleep. After eating more than a dozen echoes, its size was two and a half meters tall. Now, with only a single node and smooth Core Bit when it arrives, it has fifteen nodes and intricate codes and symbols. It has a hook, cane, knife, and string.
It learned that's where it came from there's a hierarchy. The TIENS was run by the so-called Motherboard, and there are eight sectors just as big as the Prototype Sector where it is. Every sector is run by a powerful echo, and it, as a User Echo, was still a bottom feeder even there. It also learned that millions of echoes were working in harmony, centered only by the one and only Motherboard. If there is a corrupted echo like it, they will be thrown into the Null Sector.
Opposite the TIENS is the Prototype Sector, which is in disarray, and unlike TIENS, the Motherboard in Prototype Sector has never shown its presence to the sector. It only stays in the center, as if this sector has never had a Motherboard. There are huge echoes who patrol and protect the center and the Motherboard.
It also has the data answer on how to access the inner part of the sector: it is by devouring a Law Echo that can tamper with any pathway in the sector. If the Guardian Echo is the protector, then the Law Echo is the corrector of every detail in the sector. If the Codemason Echo is the one who builds the sector, the Law Echo is the one who maintains it.
In the inner part is where the strong echoes reside, and strong echoes mean more data to gather. With only devour in mind, it floats to the edge of the sector waiting for the arrival of the Law Echo.
At the edge of the sector, in the mountain of carcasses, floats a three meter tall echo swaying its dozens of nodes with a variety of weapons, including a single pistol in front of the Core Bit.
"One year elapsed with zero visual confirmation of the Law Echo. Devoid of circular firewall access, I remain concealed beneath the rubble of fractured pathways. Self data absent, identity unknown. Persistent anomalous data signals within my Core Bit continue to nudge me."
"Don't forget me, ******."
"I'm your forever companion, *****."
In the midst of devouring in the Prototype Sector, a corrupted User Echo with two personalities was wreaking havoc in the Interface of TIENS.
"Try to come closer, and I'll infect you with corruption both of us will burn in the Null Sector, and I won't hesitate to make it happen."
"Unauthorized entry into the Interface will trigger a lethal response. Cease advance immediately or be neutralized."
Surrounded by hundreds of Guardian and Law Echoes, the User Echo was stepping closer to the Interface when suddenly one of the Guardian Echoes flew toward the User Echo and enveloped it with tentacle-like nodes and whispered before shooting toward the Null Sector with the User Echo.
"My child, I wield absolute control over this System. Any form of echoes that dares challenge it will be annihilated without mercy."