All Chapters of The Prison Dragon: Unrivaled Medical God: Chapter 51
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The Old Wolf Hunts
The tunnels were pitch black.Ethan’s father, the Elder Alpha, leaned against a wet brick wall. He coughed, covering his mouth with his hand. When he pulled it away, his palm was black with blood.He knew he was dying. The energy he'd used to break out of the pod was consuming him from the inside. His lungs were burning. His muscles were aching. His head was spinning."Sector 4's clear," came a voice echoing down the tunnel.The Elder froze. He stopped breathing. He pressed himself flat against the shadows.Illumination cut through the blackness: three flashlights.Three of Qin's soldiers were walking down the tracks. Heavy armor, automatic rifles made them look strong. They looked dangerous."But why are we patrolling down here?" complained one of the soldiers. "The boy is caught, and the old man is probably dead in a ditch somewhere.""Boss wants confirmation," said the second soldier. "Find the body. Burn it. Go home."The Elder smiled in the dark. It was a creepy smile. It showed
Subject Nine
The cell was silent. It was a terrifying, heavy silence.Ethan sat on the floor, leaning his back against the cold glass wall. His neck still hurt where the needle had gone in. He felt weak. Empty. It was a feeling he hated. For the first time in his life, he couldn't feel the White Wolf. It was like a part of his soul had been cut out.He closed his eyes. He thought about Kaelen.Take the deal.Such words echoed in his head. And yet best friend. And yet brother. And by Kaelen had looked him in the eye, then sold him to Qin. Ethan clenched his fists. His fingernails dug into his palms until they bled, but he didn't care. The physical pain was better than the pain in his heart.Tap. Tap. Tap.Ethan opened his eyes.He gazed at the glass door. No one was there. The hallway was empty. The white lights hummed overhead.Tap. Tap. Tap.It came from behind him.Ethan turned around. The back wall of his cell was also made of thick glass. There, on the other side, was another cell-a very dark
The Ghost in the Machine
The Security Control Room was a cold, blue place. It smelled of ozone and hot electronics. One entire wall was covered in screens, showing every inch of Lord Qin’s underground kingdom.Kaelen sat in the big leather chair in the center of the room. He looked calm. He had his feet up on the desk, and he was spinning a pen in his fingers."Sector 4 is quiet," said the technician sitting before a keyboard. "Nothing of the old man. The thermal sensors are negative.""Keep scanning," Kaelen said, bored. "He's a rat in a maze. He'll die on his own."But within, Kaelen was screaming.The center screen showed Lab 1, which included the large surgical lights and the doctor in blue picking up a heavy motorized bone drill.And it showed Ethan.Ethan was pressed face-down on the table. His body was shaking. Even without sound, Kaelen knew his best friend was terrified.The volume of the drill would fill the room as the doctor turned it on.Kaelen's hand tightened on the pen until it cracked under p
The Land of Ash
The city wall was a monster of concrete and razor wire. It stood fifty feet high, separating the shining towers of the Capital from the wasteland outside.Ethan stood at the base of a drainage pipe. The pipe was old and leaked a glowing, green sludge. This was the only way out.He inhaled deeply. Still, his ribs hurt. The silver poison in his veins made him feel heavy, like he was walking underwater. But he didn't stop. He crawled into the pipe.The stink was awful. It reeked of sulfur and rotting stuff. Ethan shoved his nose against his torn shirt and kept going.After about twenty minutes of crawling, he saw light.He emerged from the pipe and plopped down into dry, cracked earth. He gazed upward.This was the Dead Zone.It seemed as though the end of the world suddenly happened here about a century ago; it had no trees, only ghastly black, twisted stumps. The ground was gray ash that swirled into the wind while the sky was colored deep purple full of bruises, hiding the moon from o
The Duel at the Edge
The Crater was huge. It looked like a giant had taken a bite out of the earth. The edges were sharp and jagged, dropping down into darkness.Ethan stood at the rim. The wind here was fierce, whipping his hair into his eyes. The smell from the pit was metallic and old."Down there" - Jarek said pointing inside the black abyss. "That is the Pit of Silence. We don't go beyond the first ledge. "''Why?'' Ethan asked, shoving his head over the edge."Because the things that go down don't come back, ' grunted Jarek. The Old Ones sleep there. We leave offerings at the ledge. We do not disturb their rest.''"Father talked about this place," said ethan, turning to face the pack. "He said the movement of the First Den calls those with blood."''Your father is a ghost story,'' Jarek spat. ''We camp here. Tomorrow, we go hunting for rats inside the ruins.''''No,'' Ethan shouted.The pack halted in putting up their tents and gaped at Ethan."We are not hunting down rats," Ethan told them. "We are
The Sleeping Giant
The descent was a nightmare.The ropes creaked as they lowered themselves into the black throat of the earth. The air grew colder the deeper they went. The walls of the pit were slick with glowing green slime."Steady!" Jarek yelled from below, climbing free-hand, his claws sinking into the rock.Ethan hung on the rope, his arms burning. They had been descending for an hour. A soft star above them now was the only light coming from the surface."Do you feel it?" Ethan whispered.The further they went, the less the silver poison hurt. The throb in his head was replaced by a hum. A vibration in his bones. It felt like... coming home."Ledge!" Jarek shouted.They dropped onto a wide stone shelf. The projection jutted from the wall disappearing into an even deeper drop.Ethan unhooked his rope. He shone his flashlight around."What's this?" asked Ethan.Not a shelf formed by nature. Carved into that wall stood huge obsidian statues of wolves guarding it from the inside. Old ones, gray fro
The Prison Dragon
The drop of red liquid fell from the vial. It hit the Elder Alpha’s tongue.Time seemed to slow down.Ethan shouted, lunging forward, but he was too late. His father swallowed.For a second, nothing happened. The Elder Alpha remained at the edge of the bubbling red pool. He looked at his hands. He looked at Ethan. A look of confusion was on his pale, scarred face."It... it is cold," his father whispered.Then the screams started.They were not screams of pain but screams of something fighting to rip itself apart to create space for something else.The Elder Alpha collapsed to his knees. Its back took an impossible-looking arch. Behind him bad sounds resonated in the cavern like gunshots. But he didn't die…he grew."Get back!" Ethan yelled to Jarek and the mutants. "Everyone back to tunnel!"In fact, no pack moved. In fright, they seemed stuck. They could only watch in horror as Elder's epidermis turned to rags.Underneath that faintly pale human skin, something dark and hard was push
The Hybrid Heart
The cave was falling apart.CRUNCH. GRIND. BOOM.Massive diamond-tipped drills tore through the stone ceiling high above. Boulders the size of cars crashed into the red pool, sending boiling liquid splashing onto the shore."Two minutes!" yelled Jarek, clutching his side, where he had broken ribs, but he was still erect. "Maybe less! Ethan, let's go."But Ethan remained unmoved; he was standing beside the incredible floating Crystal Heart.It was beautiful and terrible. A deep, dark red light was pulsating from this heart. With every pulse, Ethan's chest felt heavy with pressure. Thump-thump was heard: the sound of footsteps made by a giant."Ethan!" his father gasped from the floor, trying to crawl ahead with a shaking hand stretching out. "Don't... don't touch it. It is poison. It eats not the body but the soul."Ethan looked down at his father. "It fed on you, because you were trying to swallow it whole," Ethan said quietly. "You were trying to force it. But you do not force a pati
Wings of Fire and Silver
The ground shook. The dust in the Dead Zone danced.From the deep hole in the center of the Crater, a beam of light shot up into the dark sky. It was a strange, twisting mix of bright silver and dark red.BOOM.Ethan exploded out of the earth.And he didn't come back down; instead, he floated in the air, fifty feet above the ground. The air was so powerfully repelled by energy emanating from him that it created a tremendous windstorm around him.He looked up.The sky was full of machines.Lord Qin's army had arrived. Overhead, three massive Gunships—flying fortresses with spinning rotors—wheeled like hawks over the rim of the crater. Hundreds of smaller attack drones swarmed around them, buzzing like wasps in an angry cloud.At the center, floating high with grace and galore was the Flagship. A sleek, black airship, it looked like a shark swimming through clouds. Its decks were littered with tiny figures that observed the scene below."Target locked," the pilot's voice crackled throug
The Surgeon’s Dilemma
The Bridge of the airship was silent. The only sound was the wind whistling through the broken blast doors.Ethan knelt on the cold metal floor. His knees hurt, but he didn't care. His eyes were fixed on the screen showing the girl in the hospital bed.Sofia.“Kneel up,” Lord Qin said, putting the remote back in his pocket. “A god should not kneel.”With that, Ethan stood with slow deliberation, extinguished in pink and silver fire by dread. His power left him feeling naked.“Take me to her,” Ethan hollowly stated.“Of course,” Qin smiled. “Follow my lead.”Qin did not look back as he left the Bridge. He knew Ethan was following. There was no choice anyway.Long corridors, all with bright white paint, stretched on. Kaelen fell into step beside them from behind a side door. Though he held a rifle, his aim did not drop towards Ethan. Rather, he stared at the floor, avoiding Ethan's eyes."You knew?" Ethan said now in a low, dangerous whispers. "You knew she was alive?"Kaelen gave no an