Chapter 37: Thousand of Clear

Thousands of clear tentacles creeping out from the tile cracks of the Sacred Temple of Ouroboros drive with precision through Alexander Rington’s Vanguard Armor plating. The tips of the biological needles drill into the main blood vessels in both of his ankles, triggering a high-pressure power suction that siphons pure De La Croix fluid straight from his circulation system.

Alexander groans hoarsely. Corrosive pain creeps rapidly, burning his leg nerve network, attempting to paralyze the central nerve signal to his brain. The silver-gold glow in his eyes vibrates violently as his bio-electric energy structure is forcibly pulled toward the altar stone floor circulation.

"Julian..." Alexander whispers, his voice laden with a frozen disbelief.

The figure atop the black stone throne stands up slowly. The black silk robe adorned with ancient gold thread billows gently, ignoring the high-pressure water current surrounding the giant room. His right hand rises, moving his fingers with cold elegance as he removes the silver mask shaped like a coiled dragon face.

The face behind the mask is fully revealed beneath the glow of the hydrothermal blue torchlight.

A sharp jawline, a symmetrical cheekbone structure, and a thin slice scar on his left temple—it is indeed Julian Rington. However, the irises of his brother’s eyes, which once radiated a warm brown color, now completely shift into dual-rotating silver rings with unshining golden pupils, empty of any shred of humanity.

"The sacrifice at the Valhalla station was the most beautiful masterpiece of biological theater, Alex," Julian’s voice echoes crystal clear, emitting a dual resonance in harmony with the vibration of the temple stone walls. "Elias thought he was the master architect of a new civilization. He never realized that the space station was merely an initial breeding vessel to separate the pure blood extract from the clan’s hereditary defects."

"You used your own death," Alexander hisses while clenching his fist, bracing his body weight by plunging the Ancient Dragon-Framed Sword into the stone floor.

"I did not die, my Brother," Julian interrupts while stepping down from the throne stairs. Every footprint triggers a wave of blue light that flows into the absorbing tentacles on Alexander’s legs. "I returned to the lap of the true creator. The Rington and De La Croix lineages are not two separate clans clashing over a throne, but rather two halves of a trigger to awaken the Ouroboros mother entity."

At the same time, the roar of the Leviathan-X submarine’s hydro-jet engines thunders from the direction of the temple’s outer gate. The massive warship makes an emergency landing among the collapsing stone pillars, shining its main spotlights straight onto Julian’s and Alexander’s position.

The Leviathan-X’s secondary airlock door opens rapidly. Daniel leaps out alongside four Obsidian Legion soldiers armed with heavy-caliber sonic-kinetic rifles. Behind them, Genevieve steps out while tightly cradling baby Gabriel, while Ethan and Stella walk rigidly with eyes projecting an increasingly burning red parasite glow.

"DO NOT MOVE!" Daniel shouts through his armor speaker, pointing the muzzle of his sonic rifle straight at Julian’s chest. "Release Alexander right now!"

Julian does not even turn toward Daniel. He merely flicks his left hand casually into the air.

A wave of pure hydro-kinetic pressure hurls from Julian’s palm!

The four Obsidian Legion soldiers fly dozens of meters as their steel armor shatters into pieces from the impact of the underwater airwave! Daniel’s sonic rifle explodes into fragments, throwing the man crashing against the Leviathan-X’s hull until he slumps down, vomiting blood!

"DANIEL!" Genevieve screams hysterically.

Julian turns his gaze toward Genevieve and baby Gabriel. The golden glow on the baby’s neck responds to Julian’s presence, radiating a warm resonance trying to neutralize the cold aura inside the temple.

"Genevieve," Julian says softly, yet his tone carries absolute dominance. "You brought along the final piece. Your children are already under the influence of Deus’s parasite. There is no cure or serum in this world capable of erasing it, except unifying their blood circulation into the Ouroboros Mother Reactor."

"You are a demon, Julian!" Genevieve roars, her eyes burning with pure De La Croix fury. "You sacrifice your own nephew and niece for this mad ambition?!"

Julian chuckles softly, a cold laugh that makes goosebumps rise. "This is not ambition, Yev. This is inevitable evolution. Ordinary humans are a fragile species destined for extinction by their own genetic weaknesses. Only through the unification of pure blood can we survive across the coming dark era."

"NEVER!" Alexander shouts.

With a roar that bursts the blood vessels in his throat, Alexander triggers the maximum stage of Biological Reversal inside his body!

White-gold fire blazes instantly from every pore of his skin! The corrosive fire glow creeps like lightning along the clear tentacles on his legs, burning and melting the ancient biological tissue into black ash in the water!

The absorbing tentacles sever instantly!

Alexander breaks free from the stone floor lock. Without wasting a microsecond, he draws the Ancient Dragon-Framed Sword, then closes the distance between them with the speed of a lightning slash that cuts through the ocean waves!

A high-melting-power horizontal slash targets Julian’s neck!

However, Julian draws no steel weapon nor leaps backward. He merely raises two fingers on his right hand, locking the blade of Alexander’s flame sword precisely two centimeters in front of his neck skin surface!

A shockwave of energy collision blasts in all directions, collapsing half of the stone altar wall!

Alexander’s eyes widen as he sees the white-gold fire on his sword absorbed completely and instantly by Julian’s two fingers! His brother’s finger skin is not scratched in the slightest, but instead emits a pure silver glow far denser and more perfect than Alexander’s stage-two power!

"Your power is extraordinary, Alex," Julian hisses while tightening his fingers’ pinch on the sword blade. "But you only master the outer half of pure blood. You have never seen what lies beyond the boundary of true enlightenment."

Julian twists his wrist, snapping the ancient dragon-framed sword blade into two pieces!

The ancient steel shatters into fragments!

Julian charges forward, slamming his left palm right into the center of Alexander’s Vanguard Armor chest plate!

Alexander’s chest titanium protector shatters apart! Alexander’s body flies dozens of meters, crashing into the main throne pillar until the giant pillar collapses onto the temple floor!

"ALEX!" Genevieve screams, running through the stone rubble while holding Gabriel.

Alexander falls face down upon the ruins, vomiting thick golden blood. His twin heart organs beat slowly, struggling hard to withstand the internal wounds caused by Julian’s forbidden energy thrust.

Julian walks toward Alexander calmly. He raises one hand, triggering a biological magic circle pattern above Ethan’s and Stella’s heads.

The two children float closer to the altar, their reddening eyes now completely unconscious under the influence of Julian’s telepathic control.

"The seven days are up, Alex," Julian says while pointing toward the giant stone reactor behind the throne—a transparent container filled with a biological gold fluid pulsing in harmony with the heartbeat of the Mariana Trench. "Your children will become the first vessels of this unification."

"Stop," Alexander says faintly, trying to crawl up despite all his ribs being severely cracked. "Take my blood... do not touch my children."

"Your blood already flows inside the Mother Reactor through those tentacles earlier," Julian replies coldly. He lifts Ethan’s and Stella’s bodies into the air, ready to drop the two children into the reactor’s gold fluid container!

"JULIAN!" Genevieve screams hysterically, releasing the De La Croix biological protection field from her own body to block Julian’s movement!

However, before the reactor’s gold fluid touches Ethan’s and Stella’s bodies, and before Genevieve’s energy blast explodes—

The entire Sacred Temple of Ouroboros suddenly shakes in a magnitude nine seismic frequency!

The ancient stone walls crack into a thousand fractures! The air inside the trench rift suddenly boils as the roar of an ancient warning siren unheard for thousands of years echoes through the ocean depths!

WARNING: THE SANSAS-O RESIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE THIRD PRIME QUEEN HAS AWAKENED IN OUTER SPACE.

From the collapsing temple ceiling gap, a blood-red biological holographic projection appears in the air, displaying an image of a giant ten-kilometer-scale biological asteroid that just penetrated the earth’s atmosphere and hurtles like lightning toward the Pacific Ocean!

Julian stops his movement instantly, his eyes widening as he stares at the projection with lines of tension appearing for the first time on his silver face.

"Not just Deus," Julian whispers hoarsely, his voice trembling with absolute horror. "Elias’s death signal at the Valhalla station has summoned the Annihilation Invasion Mother from outer orbit!"

The biological asteroid cuts through the Pacific sky at Mach fifty speed, ready to strike the sea surface directly above the Mariana Trench position within five minutes!

Inside the temple beginning to collapse from the initial wave of asteroid pressure, Alexander stares at his cracked sword pieces on the ground, while the sound of an alien whisper echoes directly inside the core of his pure blood cells.

"Accept eternal

darkness or watch your world turn to ash tonight."