The roar of the furnace seemed to tear time and space apart. The moment Ryan's quantum symbiote's right arm inserted into the furnace core, the screams of 299 clones suddenly exploded from the depths of the magma. The fluorescent blue mucus flowed back into his blood vessels along his mechanical lines, like countless ice cones piercing his bone marrow.
"It's not too late to regret now," Selina used the broken crystal dragon wings to block the attacking Vatican dragon cavalry. Her tail had been burned to charcoal by the furnace radiation. "Your broken arm is the final ignition device!"
Ryan didn't answer. Black mucus was oozing out of his gill slits, and every drop condensed into the Holy Seal of the Church on the ground. Irene's remaining chip screamed deep in the scar: "Gene homology rate 99% - forced stripping protocol activated -", but the gears in the symbiote's right arm had already bitten the fragments of the Judge's mask in the core, starting an irreversible fusion.
(Gray's ice claws pierce the spine - Liria's embryo reaches out in the incubator - Elena's mechanical fingers cut out the first reverse scale -)
"Ignite!" Selina's roar and the dragon cavalry's holy light cannon exploded at the same time.
Ryan pressed down his right arm, and the gears scraped quantum sparks in the furnace core. The entire furnace suddenly folded quantumly, and the faces of 299 Ryan clones emerged on the furnace wall - they were tied to the operating table by genetic chains, and each face repeated the same sentence: "Why did my mother choose me?"
The magma turned into Cthulhu-style tentacles that entangled Ryan, and the suction cups with the "III" brand on the tip tore at his reverse scale scar. In the severe pain, he saw the prototype of the Xingyuan Holy Sword rising from the bottom of the furnace, and the blade was flowing with the tears of the Lyria embryo.
"Hold on!" Selina's claws tore the last dragoon apart, and her crystal wings completely disintegrated as she pounced on the hearth. "The key slot is in the hilt! Use my blood!"
Her black blood splashed onto the furnace wall, activating the amber runes of the first Dragon King. The right arm of Ryan's symbiote suddenly spun in the opposite direction, the gears crushed the tentacles and grabbed the hilt of the holy sword - there was a dent there, the shape of which was exactly the same as the "III" mark on his reverse scale scar.
"No..." Irene's chip suddenly overloaded, and the star code spelled out Elena's suicide log: "The real purpose of container 001-the mother's resurrection container."
It was too late. Ryan's scar automatically detached from his skin, embedding into the groove of the hilt with blood and mucus. The entire furnace roared like the first generation of the Dragon King, and 299 gene chains suddenly emerged from the blade of the holy sword, each connected to the throat of a Ryan clone.
(Young Ryan slaps the glass in the incubator—Elena cries through the observation window—Gray's ice claws pierce the fish tail of Liria's embryo—)
The mechanical bishop of the Church descended at this time. Its body was made up of countless Lyria embryo culture chambers, and the "III" brand on its forehead fired a holy light cannon: "Purification Process - Final Stage -!"
Raine swung his sword to block, and the moment the blade collided with the holy light cannon, time and space suddenly stopped. He saw inside the holy sword - Elena's mechanical spine was wrapped with dragon gene chains, and the "Raine-ω" code on the hilt was absorbing the life energy of all clones.
"Kill me..." The clones suddenly spoke in sync, with miniature Holy Seals popping out of their eyes, "End the cycle of reincarnation..."
The Mechanical Bishop's second Holy Light Cannon shattered Selina's right leg. Before she fell into the lava, she slammed the Demon Key into Ryan's neck: "Cut its core! That thing belongs to Liria..."
The holy sword suddenly moved on its own, carrying Ryan towards the mechanical bishop. When the sword pierced into the incubator cluster, Ryan heard the cry of the Lyria embryo - not from the enemy's body, but from the depths of the holy sword.
"Brother...it hurts..." The code on the hilt suddenly mutated into "Lyria-ω", and 299 clones simultaneously exploded into blood mist.
The core of the Mechanical Bishop was exposed - it was half of the beating heart of the Dragon King, with Elena's star chip pattern engraved on the surface. At this time, Ryan's symbiote's right arm completely disintegrated, and the gear fragments pierced into the heart, releasing the memory projection of the first generation judge:
Twenty years ago, Elena held the Lyria embryo and sewed the Dragon King's heart into her chest. Her tears dripped onto the Judge's mask, and the code displayed "Project Lyria Final Stage - Matrix Carrier".
After the holy sword absorbed the energy of all the clones, a starry sky totem emerged on the sword that Ryan had never seen before. The moment he swung the sword down, a quantum storm burst out from the core of the Mechanical Bishop, tearing the entire furnace space in half -
Half of it was the burning Holy Light of the Church, and the other half was the abyss of stars where the remains of the first generation Dragon King floated. Where the holy sword landed, the complete body of the embryo of Liria was crawling out of the crack in time and space, and the "III" mark on its forehead fit perfectly with the hilt of the sword.
"It's a nice gift..." Selina lay on the platform where the magma solidified, raised her arm with only bones left and gave a thumbs up, "Remember to pay me the patent fee..."
The scar on Raine's reverse scale began to regenerate, but under the new skin was no longer flesh and blood - it was 299 beating gene chains, each of which was connected to the "Raine-ω" code on the holy sword.
Branch Undercurrent:
The remains of Gray's ice claws appeared in the furnace residue, engraved with the warning "The holy sword memory has been contaminated". On the other side of the abyss, Liria's intact body was reaching out to touch the remains of the first generation dragon king, and the slime sea under her feet emerged with a holographic projection of "The progress of the mother awakening is 100%"...