Once KOS-MOS has worked her way through the swarm, their bodies disappear into the aether, leaving only the damage they've done to the imagined room as trace they were ever there in the first place.

"The Gnosis threat has been neutralized," KOS-MOS intones, as if this were merely a matter of course. "Combat efficiency decrease estimated at .3%. Powering down weapons systems."

She lowers the gatling guns as the nanomachines disassemble them once more.