"Lie on your stomach, Elara," Silas ordered, his hands igniting with raw, golden power. "This is going to be the most intense procedure of your life."Elara didn't hesitate. She let the shredded remains of her elegant evening gown fall to the floor, leaving her completely bare. She pressed herself flat against the cold steel of the medical bed, her breath coming in ragged, heated gasps."I'm ready, Silas," she whimpered, her knuckles turning white as she gripped the edges of the bed. "Just... please hurry.""A surgeon never rushes a spinal extraction," Silas replied coldly. He stood over her, his eyes locking onto the pulsating, grotesque leech fused to her lower back. "I am going to flood your central nervous system. The neural feedback will be absolute.""You must drown the creature in dopamine, boy," Victor Thorne’s ghost instructed from the void, his tone clinical yet darkly amused. "Massage the bio-electricity directly into her nerve clusters. Break her limits, and the parasite w

The stealth jet Valkyrie tore through the night sky, its thrusters whining as it hovered directly above the Silver City Hydro-Dam. The toxic rain over the city had been neutralized, but at this ground zero, the thick green fog still swirled aggressively like a maelstrom of death."Rex, hold your position in the air," Silas ordered over the comms, his voice as cold as ice. "None of you have the biological shielding to survive down there.""Boss, radar detects a massive energy anomaly right above the main floodgates," Nova reported from the Sanctum, her voice tight. "That has to be the epicenter.""Stay on the ship, Silas," Seraphina demanded from the Valkyrie’s co-pilot seat, her tone laced with undisguised worry. "Let Ghost level the dam with his plasma cannons. We don't need to risk direct contact with the pathogen.""A malignant tumor isn't removed by dropping a bomb on the entire operating room, Seraphina," Silas replied calmly. He casually rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt,

The Bone Sculptor stared at the shattered fragments of his ivory sword, his pale eyes twitching with absolute fury. "You broke my hyper-condensed calcium with a needle? Who the hell are you?""I am the attending physician," Silas stated, his voice a low, vibrating rumble that cut through the heavy rain. "And your appointment is long overdue.""Arrogant suit!" The Bone Sculptor roared.The skin on the Calamity’s back violently split open. Six massive, jagged bone spikes erupted from his spine like spider legs, dripping with blood and marrow. He lunged at Silas with terrifying speed, all six spikes stabbing downward like executioner’s spears."Look at his osteoblasts, Silas," Victor Thorne’s ghost chuckled darkly in the recesses of his mind. "His bone marrow is working in severe overdrive. Shut down his parathyroid glands. Cut off the calcium supply at the root.""A basic anatomical flaw," Silas murmured.Silas didn't dive out of the way. He activated The Golden Eye. The world shifted i

Silas raised his right hand. His fingers clamped around Lilith’s throat in one swift motion.Lilith gasped softly. She tried to step back, but Silas's grip locked her in place."You are holding your breath," Lilith murmured. She didn't look panicked.A heavy shadow landed with a loud crunch on the hood of a nearby sedan. The windshield cracked. Seraphina stood there, her black combat jacket soaked from the rain."Let her go, Silas," Seraphina said. She raised both submachine guns and took aim. "Let me put a bullet in her head right now.""Lower your weapons, Seraphina," Silas ordered. He didn't take his eyes off Lilith. "You are contaminating my operating area.""She is spreading a pathogen across the entire district," Seraphina jumped down from the car. Her boots hit the wet asphalt. "We don't have time for a lengthy medical procedure.""I said, lower them," Silas repeated.Seraphina slowly lowered her barrels. She stood five meters away, glaring at the Siren.Lilith smiled at their

Silas stepped out of the penthouse elevator onto the concrete helipad. The stealth jet Valkyrie hovered ten feet above the roof. The rear cargo ramp hissed as it lowered onto the wet pavement."The Vanguard secured the lower streets," Rex said. He stood by the ramp, racking the bolt of his heavy plasma rifle. "But all communication signals in the northern sector just flatlined."Silas walked up the metal ramp. Lilith followed closely behind him. She clutched a black tactical coat Rex had tossed her to cover her ruined silk dress."Sit," Silas ordered. He pointed to a steel bench bolted to the bulkhead. "Put your leader's exact coordinates into the tactical map."Lilith tapped the holographic panel with trembling fingers. A three-dimensional grid of an abandoned nuclear facility materialized in the center of the cabin."He is in the underground containment core," Lilith stated. She pointed at a pulsing red dot on the grid. "He has been preparing the array for two days."Seraphina stepp