Forty-eight hours later.The deafening roar of machinery echoed through the underground command room of the Aegis Sanctum. Silas Thorne stood calmly, clad in a crisp black shirt beneath a custom Kevlar-weave trench coat. Beside him, Rex was testing the hydraulics of his new mechanical arm, while Seraphina meticulously inspected Silas’s supply of silver and golden needles.Suddenly, Nova slammed her hands onto her mechanical keyboard. The hacker’s face was pale, but her eyes burned with fury."Boss! We almost walked straight into the most ridiculous trap of the century!" Nova exclaimed, her fingers dancing across the keys as she manipulated the holographic map projected in the center of the room.The red dot hovering in the stratosphere violently flickered, then plummeted downward, landing dead center in the middle of a raging ocean storm."What do you mean, Nova?" Seraphina asked coldly."The Supreme Leader of Olympus is playing us!" Nova ground her teeth. "That stratospheric signal h

The air above the deck of the Olympian Leviathan felt incredibly thick, as if gravity had just been multiplied tenfold.The Last Three Archons hovered a few centimeters above the steel plating, which was now beginning to warp and groan under their spiritual pressure. The six metallic wings on each Archon's back resonated, creating a high-frequency hum that made the blood inside anyone's body boil.Rex, who had just expended a massive amount of energy destroying the Commander, fell to one knee. His bionic arm violently cracked as it bore the invisible weight. Beside him, Seraphina, severely depleted of her Yin Qi, bit her lip until it bled to keep from collapsing face-first. The Sacred Realm aura radiating from these three monsters was simply too absolute."Mortal creatures," spoke the Archon in the center. Its voice didn't sound like a machine, but rather a chorus of dozens of human voices speaking in unison. "You have defiled the territory of Olympus. Prepare to be purified."The thr

Silas's words echoed through the vast reactor chamber, shattering the Supreme Leader's illusion of grandeur. The middle-aged man's face, which had previously radiated the absolute tranquility of a god, contorted with wretched, humiliated fury."Insolent!" the Leader roared. His voice no longer resonated with majesty; it was shrill and laced with hysteria.The light in his chest erupted. The Leader raised a hand, condensing lethal Sacred Realm energy, and fired a pillar of pure white light the size of a massive tree trunk straight at Silas. The sheer heat of the beam vaporized the steel floor in its path instantly.But Silas Thorne didn't retreat a single inch. He didn't even dodge.BOOOM!The pillar of light struck Silas dead-on, creating a blinding explosion of energy that engulfed the entire room. The Leader sneered, absolutely certain that the Medical Tyrant had been vaporized into nothingness.However, from behind the settling dust and the blinding residual light, a silhouette ste

The Aero-Cruiser stealth dropship touched down on the rooftop helipad of the Aegis Sanctum just as the first light of dawn broke across the eastern horizon, banishing the remnants of the night's storm.Silas Thorne stepped out of the aircraft, followed closely by Seraphina, Rex, and Ghost. In the lobby of the underground medical facility, Dr. Harrison and the world's top elite surgeons were already lined up.The moment they saw Silas approaching, his tailored trench coat torn and soaked in enemy blood, the top-tier doctors bowed their heads in unison, nearly touching the floor. None dared to meet the Medical Tyrant's eyes.Silas ignored them entirely, striding directly toward the VVIP ICU.In the center of the sterile room, the cryogenic capsule encasing Jonathan Thorne stood resolute. The internal temperature was still maintained at absolute zero by the lingering traces of Seraphina's Yin Qi. Jonathan looked as if he were sleeping peacefully within a block of eternal ice."Turn off a

Two armored tactical helicopters touched down in rapid succession on the rooftop helipad of the Aegis Sanctum.From the first helicopter stepped an elegant old man in a tailored suit, leaning on a dragon-carved cane. It was Elder Cross, the CEO of Cross Pharmaceuticals, the massive medical conglomerate whose life Silas had saved from his own son's betrayal.From the second helicopter emerged a broadly built man in a military uniform adorned with medals. It was Four-Star General Arthur Graves, the supreme commander of the Shadow Forces, whom Silas had cured of the terminal Chimera virus.Both men were heavily escorted by Rex down to the underground tactical briefing room. The moment the blast doors slid open, Elder Cross and General Graves abruptly halted in their tracks. The air inside the room felt incredibly heavy, saturated with a purifying, oppressive Qi pressure.Sitting at the head of the holographic round table was Silas Thorne. His gold-flecked gray eyes stared right at them.