Chapter: The Shadow of the ConductorZenith-Prime. The Temple of Echoes.Time: 02:05 Hours Post-Jump.The black neutronium tuning fork hairline ripped away in the form of a spider-webbed outward.Ethan supported the focussed ray of blue plasma in place. The intensity of the heat emitted through his arm and the White Bio-Steel was disastrous. The plating melted and became a blinding sickly white. His artificial nerve endings, in his shoulder, cried out, but he was not going to cut the connection. He infused all the remaining energy of chaos of his essence into the strike."Cease this madness!" The Prime shrieked. The Guardian of the Source was struggling in the stream of blue plasma, its violet light flickering and disintegrating in the sheer power of Ethan his discordant power. And you will destroy the localized reality field!"Then we fall together!" Ethan roared.The fissure on the tuning fork extended out into a sharp gulf of flashing bluish light. The stuttering of the First Note frequency was the absolute zero. It s
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Chapter: The Guardian of the SourceZenith-Prime. Inside the Temple of Echoes.Time: 02:00 Hours Post-Jump.Ethan crossed the decadent silver, barrier. The atmosphere of the Temple of Echoes was totally opposite to the one of the cave on the outside. It was physically weighty. It was like that of heavy, waving water. With every breath Ethan drew it shook his ribs and gave his human body a shiver and his White Bio-Steel arm made a sympathetic hum.Next came Jarek, with his metallic-heavy feet falling on the floor. The sound was not echoed in a regular manner. The violet crystal walls consumed it immediately, and swallowed it into the fractal geometry of the old building.The Imposter sailed over them, his chrome body showing the violet light. He gazed with very real awe.Perfect math there, The Imposter said, following a rune of silver that was molten into one finger of the next. "There is no friction. There is no decay. This whole system is a closed thermodynamic system. It will continue up to the end of time.Nothing,
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Chapter: The Veins of the WorldZenith-Prime. The Subterranean Descent.Time: 01:25 Hours Post-Jump.The black swallowed Ethan whole.The metallic teeth of the planetary vent clanked together some distance over his head, and the sickly purple light of the Zenith-Prime sky was cut off. The wind whistled in his ear receptors, a hurricane of stinking breath exhaled out of the lungs of a living world. He was losing control and had fallen to terminal velocity in an alien abyss."Ignite your thrusters!" Through the blowing wind Ethan called. His internal messages were in hope that they would reach Jarek and The Imposter by the sheer force of the bio-magnetic noise that the crust of the planet produced.He threw on his own boot-jets, the blue plasma falling upon the fleshy ribbed walls of the tunnel. The shaft was huge, fully half a mile broad, and was hung with throbbing skyscraper veins.Beneath these again, there was a splendid, dreadful radiance. There was a roar of sound waking along the shaft, and smothering the wind
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Chapter: The Immune ResponseZenith-Prime. The Surface.Time: 01:20 Hours Post-Jump.Jarek struck the cushy earth as a meteor. His Void Scythe whistled and cut a flawless black line of the poisonous atmosphere.He put the lead Antibody right along the middle. The ten-foot skeletal creature of the bone and biomechanical material collapsed, landing on the ground in two heavy and wet slabs."Too easy!" Jarek bellowed, and turned to meet the next danger."Jarek, behind you!" Elena was screaming, on the ramp of the flying Void-Skiff. She fired her sniper rifle. The explosive round hit the chest of a second golem knocking it backward.The two parts of the Antibody which Jarek had just cut were not bleeding. They writhed. The boiled dark grey tissue swelled up, and closed the cuts immediately. In a couple of seconds, the two halves were erect, two complete, full-size, five-foot-tall golems. They were smaller, yet twitchy and hyper-accelerated their movements.They pounced upon Jarek as wild dogs.They multiply, Ethan gr
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Chapter: The Raven's PromiseZenith-Prime Orbit. The Debris Ring.Time: 01:15 Hours Post-Jump.Ethan did not decelerate. He flung the flight stick forward. The Void-Skiff flew through the perfidious ring of the dead worlds about the Progenitor Homeworld.The seriousness in this industry was a nightmare. There were inherent crushing force tethers of invisible pulling all around the hull. The metal groaned. The bridge was fired with warning signals.It is impossible to fly through a neutron star field blindly, Lord Gear announced at the central board. The hull will be torn open in four minutes by the gravitational shear.I am not driving in the dark, Ethan replied. His cybernetically directed eye followed a thin wavering ion line disappearing into the blackness. "I am following the rat."He turned the Skiff sharply left, and only just escaped the event horizon of a dying white dwarf. After the junk-ship, led by the Exile, Korvath."Gear. Ping his transponder. Force an open channel."The comms became static and then
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Chapter: The Space BetweenEarth Orbit. The Void-Skiff.Time: 01:00 Hours Post-Salvage.integral complete said Lord Gear on the main console. The Singularity Core is fitted into the drive matrix. The production is at one hundred percent.Ethan sat in the pilot's chair. He moved his metal fingers through the controls. The vessel was vibrating with hideous vitality. Progenitor Core violet light leaked through the deck plates to cast the long shadows on the bridge.Set coordinates, Ethan said. "Zenith-Prime."Locked, co-ordinates locked, Gear answered. "Warning. The gravity of the Singularity Core will cause an interim hole in normal spacetime. The transport will be acute but short-term. Secure yourselves."Jarek buckled himself in the gunner seat and laid the Void Scythe on his lap. "Severe is my middle name. Let's punch it."Elena sat beside Ethan in the co-pilot position where she sat, holding tight to the armrests until her interlocked knuckles turned white.The Imposter was motionless in the middle of the bri
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Chapter: The King's Refusal"Sacrifice the Phoenix."The utterance of the First Emperor was suspended in the silent, cavernous Throne Room, more massive than the force of 100x gravity field that he had flung in a few moments past.He even indicated Sarah with his sticky, withered, mummified finger.It is to this meteor iron throne that the old seals of the Origin fasten the World Core, rasped the Emperor with his eyes made of gold-red. It has made its seat here ten thousand years. The bindings are absolute. In order to shatter them, the Core must be infused with pure Yang energy in vast quantities and continuously. It has to scald the seals inward.The Emperor dropped his hand and turned his eyes on Alex.thou art disordered in thy Dual-Elements. It takes only the pure and pure fire of the Phoenix. But the Core is greedy. It will not just take her fire. It will take her life force. It will burn her soul to ash."The Emperor was bending over his throne.One death to save billions, Dragon King. That is the math of
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Chapter: The Emperor's TestThe canvas of reality screamed.It was a voice such as a tearing metal and reverberating in the cavernous Throne Room. Out of the ragged ten-foot hole in the space that the First Emperor had cut, the abyss poured.Then there was the hands, bony limbs, grimy claws that clutched onto the sides of the rift. Then came the bodies."Void Crawlers!" Glacia screamed, and stepped aside, as the first wave struck the marble floor.They were wolves without skin, completely of jagged black smoke and deadness. They did not have eyes, but only open mouths which were stuffed with needle like teeth. And they were fast. Unnaturally fast.A dozen of them threw themselves over the room, defy of gravity, made their way upon the walls and upon the roof, and turned against the intruders."Die, beast!" Talon roared.He swung his broadsword in a tremendous movement, which was intended to cut the lead Crawler in half. The steel blade hit the nail, and went right through the neck of the creature.SWISH.There w
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Chapter: The Ruler's Intent"Let us see if your spine is made of iron... or glass."The First Emperor didn't walk. He didn't run.He simply ceased to be on the dais and appeared directly in front of Alex.Under one hundred times normal gravity, where even a Primordial Ice Dragon was forced to her knees, the mummified corpse moved faster than a sniper’s bullet.The jagged black sword descended, aiming to cleave Alex in two from the crown of his head to his boots.Alex barely had time to react. He didn't swing; he just threw the golden blade of the Dragon Slayer Sword upward in a desperate horizontal block.CLANG!The impact was apocalyptic.A shockwave of pure force exploded outward, shattering the pristine marble pillars nearest to them.Alex felt like he had just been hit by a freight train traveling at the speed of sound. His arms went numb instantly. The bones in his wrists groaned, mere millimeters away from splintering.He couldn't hold his ground.SKRRRRRRT!Alex was thrown backward. His boots dug into the
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Chapter: The Tomb of the First EmperorThe water broke.The Leviathan vacuumed through the underwater lake and tumbled into the air-filled chamber of the Antechamber of Origin.Captain Nemo shut off the great Qi engines. Silence which followed was heavy, old-fashioned, and complete.The mechanical voice of Nemo came over the intercom of the ship. The atmosphere is not unbreathable. In fact, it is superior to breathable. My sensors are going crazy. The Qi density is out of the scale.Alex got out onto the upper deck of the submarine, and then there was Sarah, and then Talon, and Old Ghost, and then Glacia.Nemo was right. An instant Alex drew his breath he felt as though he had drunk a gallon of pure, liquid energy. His meridians channels throbbed with happiness. The fatigue of battle with the Void General, the tension of life in the abyss, it was all gone in a moment.Their view extended to the City of Origin.It was breathtaking. The city, sprawling in all directions below the shining emerald dome, was entirely composed o
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Chapter: Blood in the WaterYOU have the nerve to come to my doorstep, Sister.The voice did not merely reverberate in the heads of them; it literally shook the strengthened Black Iron hull of the Leviathan.Beyond the window of the bridge the huge Sea Dragon stretched out of the flaming marble columns of the submerged city. Her scales were the color of emerald-green, and her eyes two yellow suns flaming in the abyssal dark. It was easy to make her as large as Glacia in actual proportions, a snake-like nightmare of strength, teeth and deep sea sorcery.Glacia went as near to the thick glasteel window as he could get. Her face was a cold mask of pale ice but her fists were closed.With the words "Aquaria" Glacia threw her thoughts out of the window. The surface has been violated by The Void. The barrier is broken. I must access the Origin.""The Origin?" The laugh of Aquaria was like grating tectonic plates. You betrayed your position a decade ago! And you abandoned us to stagnation in your squashing dark as you
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Chapter: The Leviathan RisesThe Black Coast.The storm was absolute. Strong winds struck the falling snow into horizontal needles, shredding jagged cliffs of the coast. The sea was not blue or green below, but was a rolling, foaming black.Alex was on the brink of the precipice, and was letting the falling ice cut him to the very bone. His bilateral eyes, which were of Gold and Blue, shone dimly in the darkness. He was looking towards the horizon, but his thoughts were on the news broadcast.Project Phoenix.Sarah had been DNA sampled by the Council. They had created a soulless weapon of his wife."Alex."Sarah moved up beside him, without attention to the freezing rain. She was blessed with a natural warm body that caused the raindrops to turn into steam before they landed on her body. She slipped her hand into his.Fine, I will take care of them, Sarah read his mind. We are going to burn down their laboratories. But now we have a world to save.Alex squeezed her hand. "I know. The Origin comes first."and in t
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