As the roar of the dragon riders stirred up the bloody wind, Selina's mechanical prosthesis was stuck between the jaws of the dragon king's skull. Those bionic monsters didn't look like mechanical creations at all - their spines were the polymerization tubes of the Holy Light Cannon of the Church, and the mucus secreted from under their scales dripped onto the ground, corroding the scorch marks of the "III" type brand.
"Ryan! Don't let the slime touch the scar!" Selina's crystal tail shattered the dragon claw that was rushing towards her, but what spurted out of the broken end was the crying slime of the Liria embryo, "This is a fucking genetic bomb!"
Ryan's holy sword split the throat of the dragon rider, but the tip of the sword was caught by the dragon's fangs. He saw the micro-cultivation chamber suspended deep in the throat - the afterimage of Liria's embryo was hitting the cabin wall, and the fish tail was connected to the energy conduit of the holy light cannon.
(Gray's ice claws pierce the incubator—Misha's cloud consciousness screams—Elena's mechanical fingers dig out the reverse scale—)
"Fuck... they used Liria as fuel?!" Ryan's symbiote's right arm rotated in the opposite direction, and the gears crushed the dragon's tooth.
The mucus splashed on the holy sword, and the "Timeless ω" code on the hilt suddenly vibrated quantumly. Ryan's retina flashed the scene of the Industrial Revolution - the young Elena was welding the fragments of the Dragon King's skull into the spine of the first generation of dragon cavalry, and the original culture chamber of Lyria's embryo was suspended next to the operating table.
Selina's roar came from above: "What are you daydreaming about!"
The three dragoons attacked and knocked Ryan over. Their claws pierced his shoulder blades and pumped mucus into his blood vessels. In the severe pain, 299 gene chains emerged from Ryan's reverse scale scar, each of which was connected to the "III" type brand on the dragoon's forehead.
"Brother... it hurts..." Lyria's cry suddenly came from all the dragon riders, and the holy light cannon barrels turned uncontrollably towards their companions.
Serena took the opportunity to jump onto the dragon's head and stabbed her mechanical prosthetic into her eye socket. She dug out a beating mechanical dragon heart with a label "Lyria-γ" engraved on it: "Son of a bitch! This is the heart of a baby dragon!"
(Young Selina's reverse scales were dug out——The dragon's heart beats in the Vatican's laboratory——Elena's tears dripped into the culture medium——)
Ryan's holy sword suddenly penetrated the core of the dragon cavalry on its own, and the moment the sword touched the embryo of Liria, time and space suddenly froze. He saw the embryo's fish tail mutated into a Vatican optical cable, which was channeling the energy of the dragon king's skull into the holy light cannon array.
"The resonator is in the third vertebra!" Erin's remaining chip suddenly screamed, "Use Gray's genetic frequency!"
Ryan's symbiote gears engaged in reverse, tearing apart the dragon rider's armor. The moment the third vertebra was exposed, he saw the same pattern as Gray's Ice Claw engraved on it - "Lyria Protector γ".
(Gray is pressed on the operating table—the mechanical finger is implanted into the spine—the fish tail of the Lyria embryo is wrapped around his wrist—)
"Gray... you fucking..." Ryan's holy sword pierced into the resonator, releasing frost energy.
All the dragoons stiffened synchronously, and the mucus flowed back into their bodies. Selina took the opportunity to detonate the crystal core, and the amber radiation wave swept across the battlefield, burning the scales of the dragoons to ashes. But the real horror has just been revealed -
The dragon cavalry took off their armor and revealed their biological bodies, which turned out to be 299 mutants of Ryan's clones. Their reverse scale scars mutated into "III" type gun muzzles, aiming at the Xingyuan Holy Sword to accumulate energy.
"Welcome home..." The clones spoke in sync, their voices mixing the frequencies of Lyria and the Judge, "The Matrix needs a perfect container..."
The holy sword suddenly folded quantumly, and the code on the hilt split into "Raine-γ". The right arm of the symbiote of Raine raised the holy sword uncontrollably, and the blade was pointed at his heart.
"Don't even think about it!" Selina's mechanical prosthesis pierced through Ryan's right shoulder, and black blood sprayed on the holy sword to form a genetic firewall, "My blood is not so easy to control!"
The severe pain woke Ryan up, and he tore off the symbiote's right arm and inserted the severed limb into the nearest clone. Amid the splash of mucus, Irene's chip released the final radiation pulse, and all the clones burst out Lyria's cry synchronously.
"Brother...save me..."
The Holy Light Cannon array fired at this moment, and Selina's crystal wings spread out a shield. In the strong light, Ryan saw the end of the artillery trajectory - Liria's complete body was floating in front of the Star Abyss Channel, sucking the remains of the Dragoon into the fishtail "III" brand.
"In the next life..." Selina's shield shattered into stardust, "Remember to buy me a glass of good wine..."
Branch Undercurrent
The remains of Gray's Ice Claw emerged from the gunfire, engraved with the ciphertext "Termination Agreement of Project γ". Deep in Liria's brand, the Judge's Mask was merging with the Dragon King's skull, with the tears of Elena when she was young emerging on the surface...