Liria's singing was seeping out from the ground. As soon as Ryan inserted the Xingyuan Holy Sword into the furnace inspection port, the damn lullaby frequency wrapped around his ankle. The rebels' communication channel was suddenly filled with baby babbling, and a vampire warrior directly tore off his headset - skin and flesh.
"Turn off your hearing!" Selina's mechanical prosthesis smashed on the console, but her voice had been corroded by the singing and turned into a hoarse noise. "It's mental pollution..."
It was too late. The three dragonborn closest to the furnace suddenly turned around, their pupils split into the fluorescent blue of Lyria's embryo. When the blood clan scout's claws stabbed into his companion's throat, it was not blood that spurted out - it was mucus wrapped in the Holy Seal of the Church, which solidified into a micro-trap of the "III" type brand as soon as it landed.
"Back of the neck! Look at the back of the neck!" Irene's remaining chip screamed in Ryan's scar.
Ryan's holy sword swept across the back of the runaway warriors. Under the cut protective suits, their spines were embedded with quantum chips of the Holy See's holy seal. Every line was in sync with the swinging frequency of the fish tail of the Lyria embryo, and was glowing in resonance with the singing.
(Gray's ice claws pierce his spine - the cry of Liria's embryo rang out simultaneously - Misha's fragment of consciousness begged for help in the mucus -)
"Selena! Three o'clock!" Ryan's warning was drowned out by the lullaby.
The wreckage of the crystal dragon wings exploded into pieces. Selina's mechanical prosthesis pierced the chest of the charged warrior, but found that the opponent's heart had already mutated into a miniature furnace. The exploding energy wave threw her away and hit the observation window of the core of the Star Abyss - on the other side of the glass, Liria's complete body was singing, and her fish tail beat out a destructive resonance wave.
"Fuck... this girl is using us as strings!" Selina climbed up, spitting out black blood, and her mechanical joints oozed the slime of the Holy Seal of the Church.
Ryan's holy sword slashed at the furnace console, trying to cut off the energy supply. The moment the sword touched, the memories of 299 clones suddenly flooded back - each of them repeated the same chopping action in different time and space, and the furnace in each time and space was sitting with Lyria's embryo.
"Brother...why did you destroy our home?" Liria's singing voice suddenly switched to Elena's.
The holy sword's "Raine-ω" code burst into a strong light, and Ryan saw the inside of the hilt - Elena's mechanical spine was wrapped around Liria's quantum tentacles. The ends of those tentacles were connected to the chip on the back of each charged warrior's neck, and the energy source of the chip was actually Misha's cloud consciousness fragment.
"No..." Ryan's reverse scale scar suddenly tore, and the mucus that sprayed out condensed into Misha's afterimage in the air, "Run away... They are using my voice..."
Selina's mechanical prosthesis got stuck in the furnace gear set at this time. She used her body as a conductor and forcibly activated the overload protocol: "Wake up! Cut that observation window!"
The moment the holy sword slashed the observation window, Liria's intact body opened its eyes. Her fish tail spun out quantum mucus, each drop of which was wrapped in a micro-mech with the Holy Seal of the Church. The most terrifying thing was her forehead - the "III" brand had evolved into the entrance to the Star Abyss Channel, and countless Ryan clones were crawling out of it.
"Protocol upgraded... The Matrix needs more carriers..." Lyria's singing voice suddenly materialized into a sonic boom.
Ryan's holy sword blocked the attack on its own, and the collision between the sword and the sonic boom created a crack in space and time. In the crack, a fragment of the memory of the first judge flashed through - he was sewing the fish tail of the Lyria embryo onto Elena's mechanical spine, and a quantum model of the Dragon King's heart was suspended next to the operating table.
"It's you!" Selina's mechanical prosthesis suddenly went berserk, uncontrollably stabbing at Ryan's back. Her pupils showed the marks of Lyria, "Hurry... Kill me..."
Ryan rolled over to avoid the fatal blow, and when the holy sword picked up Selina's prosthetic limb, he found that the internal pipelines were full of "III" coded nanoworms. Those worms were spreading up along her nerve bundles, and each one released the frequency of the lullaby.
(Young Serena struggles in the incubator—the judge's mechanical fingers dig out the reverse scale—Elena's crying mixed with the sound of the electric drill—)
"Erin! Burn them!" Ryan's scar spurted out Star Abyss Core Fluid.
Irene's remaining chip released the last radiation pulse, and Selina's mechanical joints exploded into pieces. She regained consciousness in the severe pain, and the remaining root of the crystal dragon wing stabbed her chest: "Next time... don't fucking hesitate..."
Liria's second singing attack was more terrifying than the previous one. The entire furnace space began to quantum fold, and the walls were oozing with 299 cloned mucus palms, each with the afterimage of Misha's consciousness. The accused warriors exploded synchronously, and the Holy Seal of the Church formed into a chain of flesh and blood, nailing Ryan to Liria's Star Abyss Channel.
The holy sword suddenly flew out of his hand and pierced through the heads of the three clones. The "Raine-ω" code on the hilt mutated into blood color, and Liria's singing suddenly became noisy - Gray's ice claws vibrated at the other end of the channel, and Elena's intermittent warning: "Don't... believe... the lullaby..."
"Now!" Selina used her teeth to break the last genetic chain, and her upper body, which was left, slammed into Lyria like a cannonball.
Ryan's holy sword pierced into the Xingyuan channel. The moment the sword touched Liria's body, the holy seals on the back of the necks of all the accused warriors exploded at the same time. In the rain of mucus, Ryan saw the most desperate truth - the core of each exploding holy seal was floating with fragments of Misha's consciousness, and they were being pieced together to form the final purification protocol of the Holy See.
Liria's fish tail suddenly wrapped around the holy sword, and her "III" brand split into a quantum suction cup: "Brother... this is our..."
The observation window completely collapsed at this moment, and the remains of the first dragon king stretched out his arms from the other side of the abyss. The moment its fingertips touched Liria, all the lullaby frequencies switched to Elena's dying recording: "Xiao En... Mommy will always..."
Branch Undercurrent:
The remains of Gray's Ice Claw emerged from the wreckage of the explosion, engraved with the ciphertext "Voiceprint Key has been intercepted". And in the depths of the Star Abyss, Liria's intact body was slowly swallowing the Holy Sword into the fish tail, and the code on the hilt mutated into "Maternal Protocol v.0".