Suoming

[Mengzhou Ministry of Sentinel Affairs - Resonator Archive] ... The art of Frequency-Locking seals a fragment of a target's frequency within a lock. By design, a Covenant demands the subject’s explicit consent, yet should a dying target's consciousness begin to scatter, the bond may be forcibly forged in the moment their will breaks. Securing a frequency grants the wielder access to the subject’s Forte, though diminished in strength. Constrained by physical limits, she can anchor no more than ten frequencies within her body, allowing her to command no more than ten Fortes. ... "So Intendant Suoming can lock in ten different frequencies, and when she opens a Vermillion Lock, she can use part of the locked person's ability?" "Seems so. Reading a century-old file like this is a real headache... No wonder they had us comb through it again." "Say, if Intendant Suoming went to every city's Sentinel and asked for a bit of frequency, wouldn't she be unstoppable?" "Don't be silly. The report says only a sliver of frequency can be locked. For something at the level of a Sentinel, what gets sealed in wouldn't even be enough to wield the corresponding power." "Okay, a Sentinel is a stretch. But locking the frequencies of some strong Resonators should work fine, right? Why doesn't Intendant Suoming do that?" "I suspect she only calls the frequencies held in her locks these days. For her, the only ones she'd ever forge a Covenant with are those nine..."

[Mengzhou Ministry of Sentinel Affairs - Resonator Archive] ... Rabelle's Waveform test sample analysis shows an elliptical oscillation pattern and a stable Time Domain, with no anomalous fluctuations. Assessed as normal. Resonant Criticality: Extremely high. Her frequency holds steady, with no risk of Overclocking and no prior history of it. Note: Her frequency output runs somewhat weak, and her Resonance Ability shows signs of gradual decline. Worth keeping an eye on. ... "'Stable'... well, that's hardly news. I don't think I've ever seen Intendant Suoming's mouth so much as twitch, let alone her waveform." "You really need to work on that flair for drama... The point is this: 'her Resonance Ability shows signs of gradual decline.' Don't you find that odd?" "Indeed. This record dates from almost a century ago. It's been so long. Could the initial examination have been flawed?" "Perhaps. But if the records are accurate... how has Intendant Suoming survived for over a century when her Resonance Ability was already fading?"