The white corridors of the Genesis Bio-Corp ship felt really alien. For over a year Idris Cole had known nothing but the concrete of Sector Zero, the rust of scavenged guns and the metallic smell of blood. Here the air was clean, smelling of pine and strong antiseptics. It was the scent of the world perfectly kept twelve thousand meters above the nightmare they had made.Idris and Rhea walked in silence behind the assistant with golden eyes. The liquid silver of Rhea's armor left faint freezing trails on the clean carpet while Idris's heavy boots thudded with the weight of his strong body.He let his mind briefly touch the network sending a quick signal back down to Vanguard Outpost. The signal connected away. Down on the surface Jax and Elara the two friends who had helped keep the engineering bay running were keeping the Aegis Foundation Nodes power up. They were soldiers, important to the bases survival but this high atmosphere was not their battlefield. This was the domain of the

The main cargo bay of the ship was buzzing with activity. The massive dark fortress hummed with power as its systems fully connected with Idris Coles biological control. The ship was no longer a tool; it had been transformed into a powerful assault vehicle.Idris stood at the command center on the deck his skin glowing with a steady blue light. In front of him were 5,000 vials of a serum. The bright light from the vials pushed back the shadows of the ships past.Elara was working the loading cranes expertly moving the controls. She was sweating her uniform stained with ash and oil. She didn't slow down. She loaded the serum into the ships cannons.The cannons are ready Sovereign Elara reported.. We have a problem. These cannons were designed to spray chemicals, not liquids. If we try to push 5,000 vials of serum through the nozzles they will clog.Idris looked at the schematic of the cannons. He quickly processed the dynamics and structural limitations. Elara was right. The ships arch

the big guns right now I said lower them.The watch commander was. His voice was bouncing off the strong walls of Vanguard Outpost. Up the defense machines were whining and their lasers were pointing at the two people coming out of the ash clouds of Sector Zero.Idris kept walking. Did not stop. Every step felt like he was lifting a mountain. His body was fixing the cracks in his bones but he was very tired from erasing the Genesis Sovereign. This was a weight that no machine could fix quickly. Rhea was walking beside him with a limp her burned silver armor making hissing sounds as it tried to cool down.Stop, Elias Rhea said in a voice. We are coming home.The big gates of Vanguard Outpost opened with a noise showing the safe place inside. Hundreds of people who had survived were standing quietly in the courtyard. These people had given up a lot a year ago and they had seen Idris build something from nothing. Now they looked at him like a hero who had just beaten their enemies.Idris

Die, parasite.The golden blade of Idriss glaive stopped three inches from the Curators throat. It was suspended by a barrier that smelled of burning hair and ozone.A predictable response the Curator said. His pitch-black eyes reflected the light of Idriss Sovereign domain.. Raw power without refinement is just chaotic noise. You are a beast wielding a masters sword, Idris Cole.The Curator tapped the flat of Idriss blade with a flick of his wrist.An explosive surge of force traveled up the shaft of the glaive. Idriss hands blistered instantly as the vibration tore through his muscles. He was forced back three steps. His heavy boots dragged trenches into the concrete.This creature wasn't just using force. He was manipulating the laws of the Grid itself.* System Warning: Localized gravity parameters hijacked by administrator.* Sovereign Domain efficiency reduced by forty percent.He is trying to rewrite your biology, Idris! Rheas voice cut through the hum of the battlefield. Don't

You are dead the moment you blink.The red eye of the monolith was not a window or a weapon portal. It was a star burning with a lot of hate from a billion worlds that were destroyed. As Idris and Rhea went through the atmosphere the heat was so strong that it threatened to remove the flesh from Idriss bones. Even his strong frame screamed in agony as they crossed the threshold.They crashed through the barrier of light like a meteor hitting the ocean. The sound of the Grey Grid, the shouts of Keal the explosions of the plasma fire. All of it disappeared, replaced by a silence that was hard to bear.They hit the floor of the monolith sliding across a surface that felt like glass but was alive.Idris pushed himself up holding his star-spear tightly. The inside of the world-breaker did not follow the rules of the earth. It was a place with strange shadows and alien buildings big enough to hold a whole city. There was no sky, a dark cloud of matter above sending energy down to a big mech