When Serena's void-crystal wings pierced the throne base, the corrosive hiss mingled with mechanical screeching that seemed to erupt from the planetary core. Raine's gills bled void-blue ichor—only when the throne's armrest carvings began quantum-tremoring, revealing 299 gene-chain projections beneath, did he realize this was no vampire relic.
"My wing patents..." Serena's fangs crunched Misha's spinal fragment atop the scepter, asphalt-like slime reverse-crawling along wing veins. "Now tainted with Church rat-shit!" Her six wings exploded into crystalline matrices, each scale embedded with micro 「III」 brands quantum-resonating with the throne's vampire gene maps.
(Black plasma gushed from Raine's gills—Cycle 299.9's memory flooded in—)
Child Serena bound in "Draconic Hybrid Pod", Inquisitor's mech-fingers injecting vampire stem cells into her spinal fissuresElaina's hologram hovering outside observation glass, starlight chips projecting 「Raine+Lyria+Serena Compatibility Test #299」Garret's claws shredding pod glass, slime splattering her wings: "Church turns dragon scales into data drives?"
The throne emitted Cthulhu-esque subsonic vibrations. Serena's crystalline wings developed Church cannon firing grooves, each energy channel flowing with Lyria's tear-crystals: "New Era Maternal Activation... Genetic Contaminant Purge Initiated..."
Raine's scar detonated, spewing not blood but Elaina's mechanical finger fragments. The shards formed Church documents midair: 「Maternal Protocol Amendment: Destroy Executor When Natural Genes Exceed 51%」.
"Fuck... a flesh bomb?" Serena's claws choked Raine while crystal wingtips reversed into her own chest. "Even my evolution gets Church's shitty terms?"
Ellen's core quantum-distorted. Her starlit scales projected alerts: 「Detected Flesh Regeneration Protocol—Terminate Immediately—」 But her voice glitched into Lyria's encrypted channel: "Synced Vessel 001... Final calibration..." Metallic fingers gouged her eye socket, extracting neurons entwined with 「Raine+Lyria+Serena」 chains instead of circuits.
(Void surveillance showed Garret assimilating throne radiation—his 「III」 brand resonating with Lyria's embryonic tendrils, Cthulhu gene-editing suckers budding on claws.)
The throne's carvings materialized. Vampire progenitors crucified on inverted crosses, draconic spines vivisected into data ports—each gene-chain rupture oozing Lyria's tear-crystals etched with Church permits: 「Dracula Protocol v3.14—Authorized Dragon-Vampire Hybridization」.
"Surprised?" 299 vampire-voices overlapped through Serena's vocal cords. "You three... always protocol's petri dishes..." Crystalline wings quantum-shuddered, hurling Raine toward the scar-resonator.
Ellen's mechanical spine shattered, final command flashing: 「Executor Raine-Vessel 001: Consume core for calibration.」 Her left eye materialized Elaina's hologram: "Your gene-chain with Lyria... hidden in..."
Serena's claws reconfigured into gene-editing matrices, forcing Raine's arm into the throne core. The slime sea boiled as all carvings erupted 「III」-branded clone-eyes—each pupil reflecting Lyria's awakening gene conversion ripples .
"Next cycle..." The throne collapsed, lunar crucifix glowing inverse at its core. "Tell Misha... her cloud consciousness... feeds Mother..."
Submerged Currents
Void feeds showed Lyria's embryonic tendrils breaching her pod. Her 「III」 brand pulsed with the inverted lunar sigil, tail mutating into holy cannon barrels aimed at Raine's scar-resonance point...