While they didn’t offer near the protection of the nanite topsuits, he didn’t blame them. The nanites cycled through the bloodstream, harvesting energy from the user’s cells to increase athletic performance and enable self-repair, extracting a steep toll on the body. They gave a big stamina boost, but without extensive acclimation training, they could easily do more harm than good. It was one of the main reasons royalers had to be between eighteen and twenty-one. It was the only age window when they could wear the royale topsuits almost indefinitely. After that, the extended nanite drain could
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