When Carlisle's fingertip touched the counter-era furnace's activation panel, bloody moonlight poured through the vault's cracks, dyeing his silver hair venous purple. The slime on the furnace surface quantum-trembled like sharks smelling blood—void-blue ripples crawled up his arm, veins beneath skin glowing with Church encryption codes.
"Your Highness, that thing's radiation could vaporize three hundred vampires." Raine's claws dug into the furnace base, slime reverse-seeping into his scar. "Sure about being a live key?"
Carlisle laughed with vampiric resonance, shaking star-crystals from the air: "Little lizard, know why the Church chose us?" His fangs elongated, biting his wrist to drench the furnace in blood. "Our cells... are born quantum-entanglement culture medium."
(Gills tore open—Cycle 299.5's memory flooded in—)
Child Carlisle strapped in 「Vampire Vessel」 pod, Inquisitor's mech-fingers nailing dragon skull shards into his spineElaina's hologram hovering outside, starlight chips projecting gene-chain schematics: 「Raine+Lyria Compatibility Test #43」Garret's claw smashing observation glass, slime splashing Carlisle's face: "Another breathing lab waste..."
The furnace screamed like a collapsing star. Carlisle's body quantum-disassembled—skin peeling like parchment to reveal bone-structures flowing with void-blue data. His left eye became Church's white fire, right eye Citadel's surveillance red: "Behold... vampiric apotheosis..."
Ellen's core sparked violently. Her scales projected alerts: 「Maternal Protocol v3.14 override detected... Recommend immediate termination...」 But her voice glitched into Elaina's encrypted channel: "Recovery code ALPHA-001 initiated... Memory purge 10%..."
"Fuck... she's mutating!" Serena's asphalt wings cocooned Ellen, claws ripping out her mechanical spine. At the third energy tube, slime geysered—solidifying into Inquisitor's mask midair: "Warning... Synced Vessel 003 consciousness contamination..."
The furnace's base detonated. Quantumized Carlisle floated at the core, body disintegrating into billion phosphorescent particles—each reflecting vampire massacre across timelines. His vocal cords became void-resonators, emitting Cthulhu-infused whispers: "Aku Selturath... Nyar Thotep..."
(Black slime gushed from Raine's gills—dragon king's memory shards stabbed his mind—)
First Dragon's skull nailed to inverted cross, Church monks casting chains with Lyria's tear-crystalsMisha's spinal column jammed into furnace console, 「III」 brand projecting vampire gene-mod permitsElaina's specter uploading final memory: "Hidden your gene-chain with Lyria in..."
Ellen's mechanical pupils split triple-layered—Inquisitor's crimson codes outermost, Elaina's star-patterns mid-layer, core projecting Raine's infant hologram: "Alert... Maternal Protocol final stage... Recommend purge all..." Her metal fingers suddenly jammed into her temple, yanking neurons entwined with 「Raine+Lyria」 chains: "Brother... run..."
The slime sea beneath the furnace congealed. Hundreds of Cthulhu-esque quantum tentacles erupted—surface studded with Church cannon fragments, suckers filled with micro-「III」 branded clone-eyes. The nearest tentacle coiled Raine's arm—dragon king's memory materializing—
"Reverse-scales... aren't ornaments." The dragon specter gripped Raine's wrist, driving his claw into its own brow. Dark gold blood corroded tentacles, etching 「Maternal Protocol Vulnerability」 codes.
Carlisle's quantum form collapsed into a black hole. All vampire elders screamed—gene-chains restructuring under radiation, spines bursting gears matching Garret's claws. The furnace core projected holograms of vampiric progenitors being modified—Church monks stitching Lyria's tail onto embryos.
"Next cycle..." Carlisle's final voice seeped from quantum vacuum. "Tell Serena... I collected her wing royalties..."
Submerged Currents
Void surveillance showed Garret's reassembled form absorbing furnace radiation. His 「III」 brand resonated with Lyria's embryonic tentacles—new Cthulhu suckers budding on ice claws...