The green nightmare swallowed the industrial district whole.The sky grew dark outside Shelter 04, and a huge, rolling cloud of rusted ash filled the air. It wasn't merely a drop in temperature; it was a rotting graveyard.The enormous doors of the titanium bunker stood before Jax and the Chimera Infantry. Maya was standing by them, her phantom ice blades extended and blazing brightly in the dark.From the thick green fog, a tall, thin figure slowly emerged.It was the Tier-6 Necrotic Overlord. It had the old-fashioned clothes of an ancient king, pitch-black skin, and glowing, milky white eyes. It didn't run. It didn't roar. It simply walked ahead, silent as a tomb."Open fire!" Jax roared.The big .50-caliber machine gun roared. 50 soldiers of the Chimera unloaded their assault rifles and rocket launchers directly at the ancient monster.But the Overlord just opened its mouth and let out a puff of air.The air above the battlefield was filled with the aroma of decaying breath. The bu

Aliens think they are gods because they fly in silver ships and play with the stars. I was about to show them what a real god looks like.The other four Architect Vanguards floated back, gazing at the broken chest of their deceased leader. Their high-tech tactical computers were in a panic. The earth was supposed to be a farm teeming with stupid animals. They weren't expecting a Tier-6 Chimera King.The Vanguards, their mechanical voices glitching, announced, "Threat Level: Maximum." Exterminate the anomaly!"All four of the giant biomechanical warriors attacked me at once. They wove their purple plasma staves into a whirling wall of super-heated energy that was capable of cutting through steel like butter.I didn't step back. I gripped the thick plasma staff I just stole from their dead captain.The first Vanguard was swinging his staff straight at my head. My Apex Speed made the alien appear to be swimming. I slipped under the glowing purple blade and swung my own stolen weapon in a

If you kill the king, you get to keep his castle. And my new castle just happened to be a moon-sized warship floating in outer space.I crossed over the scattered debris of the supreme commander and opened the massive glowing double doors wide. As we walked onto the Mothership's main command bridge, Maya and Nova trailed me.It was a stunning room, with large glass windows that gave us a great view of the frozen Earth spinning below. The bridge was totally deserted. The cowards had sent the whole army to the hangar, leaving the control center unguarded.A huge, floating command throne was placed in the middle of the room, attached to a glowing purple console.“Nova, hurry up,” I commanded.Nova ran quickly to the console and inserted her hard drive into the alien mainframe. Her fingers flew across the holographic keys. The main systems are secured with a biometric cosmic seal, and the computer does not respond to humans.I told him that I was not human anymore, I replied.I approached

Greed makes people blind. It makes them forget that if a man is holding a stolen alien spaceship, you probably shouldn’t try to rob him.The silver Vanguard Ship sliced through the dark clouds, descending rapidly toward the industrial district. But as the Chimera Citadel came into view on the holographic radar, Nova’s fingers flew across the console. “There is a problem!” Nova said, her violet eyes narrowing. It's not monsters surrounding the bunker.I peeked through the thick glass window. Ten thousand heavily armed human soldiers were spread across the snow-covered streets. They were equipped with battle tanks, heavy artillery trucks shiptrucks,and mounted laser cannons. They were dressed in winter armor, a greytrucks,gray and red uniform.They were the banners she knew, Thegraythe Iron Blood Coalition sneered thesneered,Maya. They are a huge warlord group from the eastern ruins,sneered,ruins; they must have witnessed the orbital plasma and followed our ship.The Iron Blood soldier

A throne is just a chair until a king sits in it and makes the universe tremble.I was seated in the floating command throne of the architect mothership. The pulsing, golden-blue Chimera energy had completely assimilated the alien bridge. The frozen ground whirled silently outside the great glass doors; it was now a conquered stepping stone.Although the bone-plated skin is black as pitch on my body and the massive tier-7 cosmic energy swirls through my veins, the very essence of my face has not changed at all. I still looked just like Kaelen Vance, though. There was one thing that was different: the shocking, golden blue light that glinted in my eyes—the undisputedly godly.I spoke with a commanding tone across the silent bridge, the word "nova." The infantry did their job well today, but fifty-two tier-1s can't fight a galactic war. Open the ship's biological manufacturing bays; we are going to start a mass evolution.Nova's eyes turned violet as she tapped the holographic console.