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Chapter Eighty – The Shadow That Answers
The dragon’s wooden jaws slammed shut around Michael, its body twisting as it dove into the ground. The impact detonated with the force of a localized explosion, the forest shaking from the pressure. Soil, stone, and splinters of shattered bark scattered in all directions, painting the air with brown haze. Rose watched the cloud rise, the deafening echo of the collision slowly fading into the distance.For a few long seconds, she didn’t move. The battlefield was still. The ground beneath her vibrated softly from the residual shockwaves, and the cocoon of vines surrounding her lowered on command, letting her step out into the open air. She surveyed the destruction — the splintered terrain, the uprooted trees, the streaks of frozen earth and shattered vegetation marking every place the fight had torn through.It was over.Rose exhaled slowly, her confidence returning in a calm rhythm. “Persistent, but predictable,” she said under her breath. Her to
Chapter Seventy-Nine – Michael vs Rose
The ground where Michael had fallen cracked under him as he stood again, dust still rising in faint clouds around his feet. His clothes were torn at the shoulder and along one arm, but he hardly noticed. His eyes remained fixed on the shape moving behind the tree line, on Rose who had her hand extended outward, guiding the movement of the giant wooden construct that had struck him moments before. The air around her shimmered faintly with life energy, and every motion she made caused the earth to stir and the vines to twist more violently.The construct shifted, its tangled limbs reconfiguring into something far larger. The creaking of wood filled the air as branches fused together, forming a massive torso and long arms that scraped against the ground. Its head emerged last, carved from the bark itself, with hollow eyes that glowed green. In moments, the treant stood twice the height of the nearby trees, roots digging deep into the soil for stability.Mich
Chapter Seventy-Eight – The Root
Michael moved through the streets at full speed, his footsteps echoing over the cracked pavement as the Southern Sector blurred around him. Every few seconds, the ground shook from distant explosions. Gunfire and screams overlapped like static in the air, but he kept running, keeping his eyes forward and ignoring everything that wasn’t directly in his path. Mutants appeared on rooftops and out of alleys, their shapes irregular and wrong—some had exposed muscle that glowed faintly under the morning light, others dragged distorted limbs with metallic growths attached. Michael cut through one that leapt too close, freezing its midsection with a burst of frost before shattering it apart. Throughout the entire sequence, he didn’t slow down.“Erin,” he said, voice steady despite the wind rushing past his ears. His Biz-Watch blinked faintly on his wrist, static breaking for a moment before her voice came through.“I’m here,” she answered. “You’re still heading t
Chapter Seventy-Seven – Genesis of the Tide
The air around the water tower shimmered with the haze of early sunlight and industrial dust. The skyline of the area stretched below like a fractured skeleton of concrete and steel, the morning fog tinted with faint green light from the mutated growth spreading across the lower industrial districts. Rose Armitage stood at the tower’s edge, the breeze teasing the strands of her red hair as her eyes swept across the distant horizon. Below her feet, the cracked surface of the tower hummed with vibration. From the vast cavity beneath her facility—the “garden”—came a chorus of movement: the sound of claws scraping metal, of heavy bodies pushing against one another as they poured into daylight. The mutants she had cultivated for months now climbed from their birthing chambers in a steady, coordinated surge, spreading outward like roots from a wound in the earth.Victor leaned on the railing beside her, his arms crossed, a look of strained admiration shadowing his
Chapter Seventy-Six: The First Wave
The alert spread through the Libertas Aeterna headquarters like an electric pulse. Red emergency lights flared across the underground corridors, their glow pulsing rhythmically with the rising tension of the command center. Commander Cane stood at the central console, the holographic map of the Southern Sector projected before him. Dozens of crimson markers dotted the map’s surface, each one representing a mutant signature picked up by the orbital scans above. They were moving in clusters that were fast, chaotic, and unnervingly deliberate.Cane’s expression hardened as he read the data. He had seen battlefields where soldiers bled and screamed and cities fell in hours, but this was something else. This was not a conventional offensive, it was like a tide of pure violence. With steady precision, he began issuing orders to the field captains through his comms. “All combat teams, mobilize immediately. Lock down all civilian exit routes from the Southern Sector. Alph
Chapter Seventy-Five: True Purpose
The hum of machines filled the sterile silence of the laboratory with a constant, low vibration that seemed to echo inside the glass walls and inside Erin Lassette’s mind. It was past dawn, but the underground levels of the Libertas Aeterna headquarters were untouched by daylight. Erin stood before the containment cell, her lavender hair glowing faintly under the sterile lights as her strands extended outward like the cords of a living instrument. Each filament shimmered with faint static pulses as she guided the machines with perfect telepathic precision. Her eyes were fixed on the restrained mutant that lay before her.The mutation had not only reconfigured its anatomy but had fused mechanical elements deep within the organic mass. She had already mapped out three distinct technological augmentations — all crudely bonded at the cellular level with plant matter that had grown from inside the body itself. It was grotesque, and yet, fascinating.
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