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Chapter 261
The giant hands of the Colossus slammed against the Obsidian Spire. The sound was terrible. It was the sound of a million tons of wet, red meat hitting solid black glass. The entire 200-story tower shook violently. Inside the throne room, the shattered pieces of window glass jumped off the floor. Elijah sat perfectly still on his throne. The heavy silver cables connected his spine to the chair. "Burn it," Elijah commanded. He pushed his Overclocked brain to the limit. He pulled raw magic from the Earth’s magma and forced it into the walls of the Spire. The black glass of the building suddenly turned blinding white. It became hotter than the surface of the sun. Outside, the Colossus roared in agony. The white-hot glass burned its giant, fleshy hands. Billions of gallons of boiling blood turned into red steam, filling the sky over New York. Standing on the monster’s shoulder, Adam the Plumber laughed through his golden megaphone. "Very good, King!" Adam cheered. "You can burn my
Chapter 260
Lyra reached her matte-black hand up. She felt the crackling, cold energy of the Violet Crown hovering over her hair. She felt the heavy, undeniable authority woven into the magic. "The light and the shadow are two halves of the same system," Elijah said. He stood tall, his silver circuits pulsing in time with the crown. "I am the Engine that runs the world. I am the shield that protects the sky. But I am too heavy. I am chained to this throne."Elijah pointed his finger toward the glass windows, where the giant Colossus of Rot was pounding on the shield. "I cannot leave this room," Elijah continued. "If I move, the Grey Web falls, and the world dies. I am the ultimate defense. But a shield cannot swing a sword."Elijah looked back at Lyra. "You are the sword, Lyra," Elijah declared. "You are the ghost in the machine. You can teleport anywhere on the planet in a microsecond. You can slip through any rule. You are the only thing in this universe that the Archangels cannot predict."
Chapter 259
Two tiny, glowing violet pinpricks burned in the center of the dark mask. They were sharp, cold, and full of ancient, dangerous magic. Lyra took a step forward. But she did not walk like a normal person. Her movements were totally un-synced with reality. She lifted her foot, and then, she was instantly standing two feet closer. She did not travel the distance between the two spots. She flickered. She looked like a video game character lagging on a broken screen. She skipped frames of time. She was suddenly standing right in front of Elijah’s throne. She did not open a mouth to speak. Her thought-voice slid directly into Elijah’s mind. It was cold, smooth, and absolute. “The basement is secure, my King,” Lyra reported. Her mental voice did not tremble. “The Architect of Life is safe. Marcus is guarding the roots. The Crimson Rot inside the building has been deleted.”Elijah looked at her. His Overclocked brain processed her new form in a microsecond. But the 3% humanity in his ches
Chapter 258
Outside the Obsidian Spire, the world was ending for a second time. Elijah, the King of the Grey, sat on his jagged throne of black glass. His mind was plugged directly into the planet. Through the giant, glowing Grey Web in the sky, he could feel everything. He felt the cold wind. He felt the gray ash falling. And he felt the unimaginable, terrifying weight of the monster standing right outside his city. The Colossus of Rot had fully assembled. It was a giant made of raw, screaming red meat. It was taller than the mountains. It was made from millions of Drop-Pods dropped by the Archangels' fleet. It had arms as thick as skyscrapers and a chest made of fused, jagged bones. The Colossus raised a massive, bloody fist. It punched the gray shield covering Haven's Drop. BOOOOOOM.The impact was so heavy that the entire 200-story Obsidian Spire shook violently. In the throne room, Elijah gritted his teeth. The glowing silver circuits on his dark obsidian skin flashed a blinding white.
Chapter 257
The Crimson Rot screamed in agony. The physical fire did what Void magic could not. It burned the wet meat into dry, black ash instantly. Lyra was free. She floated backward, her corrupted arms instantly healing and returning to smooth, matte-black shadow. "Perfect timing, Commander," Lyra’s thought-voice echoed in the room. "ORDERS, MISTRESS?" Marcus asked, keeping his flaming spear pointed at the infected Sarah. "We tag-team," Lyra commanded. Her violet pinprick eyes locked onto the monster. "The Rot is wrapped around Sarah’s spine and the silver roots. If you burn it blindly, you will kill them both. You use the fire to burn the tentacles and push the meat back. I will use the Void to perform surgery on the core.""UNDERSTOOD. ENGAGING."Marcus charged. It was a beautiful, terrifying dance of iron and shadow. The Crimson Rot unleashed a wave of a hundred bloody tentacles, trying to spear Marcus. But the Iron Marshal was an unstoppable tank. He marched straight through the mea
Chapter 256
"System Boy," Lyra whispered. "I am going to open a portal. I am going to pull him down here.""Are you crazy?!" the System Boy’s green spark flashed in the silver roots nearby. "Lyra, you are a brand-new anomaly! You just learned how to move yourself through the fold! You cannot pull a ten-foot-tall, two-ton machine of solid iron through the crease! It is too heavy!""I have to try," Lyra said. "If the roots fall, the global shield falls."Lyra pushed her hands deep into the fabric of the Void. She grabbed the shadow under Marcus’s feet, miles away. She braced her digital code, and she pulled. The resistance was instant and terrifying. It was like trying to pull a massive, rocky mountain through the eye of a tiny needle. Marcus was not made of magic. He was made of dense, heavy, physical iron. He was bound by the laws of gravity, mass, and physics. The Void-Bleed hated physical laws. As Lyra pulled, the cold water of the fold turned into freezing, razor-sharp ice. The ice cut in
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