3 - Rebirth
"...Aura self-destruct the fusion reactor"
Feeling powerless and in despair, Argent decided to self-destruct the device hoping the explosion would kill Jaylin and his crew. His deep hatred demanded revenge; it was the only thing left in hismind and he didn't want to free himself from it. These scumbags had to die for what they did to hisbrothers!
"Self-destruction prompt received... BEEP! injecting combustion fluid"
Although Cyris blocked his A.I from overriding the operating system for the door, the device belonged to him solely and anything related to it could be carried out by Aura.
"BEEP!! Warning, warning! the reactor will explode in 10 seconds, engage containment unit immediately! 10.. 9.. 8"
Jaylin's head jerked back towards the device when he heard the blaring sound of the alarm and when he saw the countdown ticking, his eyes turned wide with fear. He exploded with a terrifying force towards the exit shouting to his team
"RETREAT!"
in an instant he was over 100 meters away rushing for his life.
Argent knew that he would be safe from the explosion since he was confined inside the decontamination room. The materials used for this room was designed to withstand heavy impact, the explosion from the reactor wouldn't be able to leave a scratch on it.
Looking at the assassins running away, he felt worried and prayed that they wouldn't escape too far from the coming blast.
His gaze turned to Kirin and Cyris laying there in their blood, he was devastated that he wouldn't be able to bury them.
When all of a sudden Aura's voice rang out.
"WARNING!!! ANOMALY DETECTED. PURIFIED BLOOD SAMPLE EMITTING UNSTABLE ENERGY UNDULATIONS! A CHAIN REACTION OF DISASTOURUS PROPORTIONS WILL OCCUR! AN ESTIMATED LEVEL 10.2 EXPLOSION!"
"What?!! Level 10.2???... shit Aura abort abort!!!"
A level 10.2 explosion is on the same scale as a nuclear warhead, it would incinerate half of Silverlake city, if not more and countless people would die
Yet it was too late
"...2...1"BOOOOOOM!!!
The device and reactor exploded simultaneously, when the force of the flames touched the blood sample. The most peculiar thing happened, the invisible energy ripples surrounding the milky white blood drop started to absorb and compress the flames!
The massive flames that should have already burnt down the lab was being sucked into the blood sample.
Argent had his eyes wide open and couldn't believe what he was seeing. The glossy white color was going through extraordinary changes it was actually getting bigger... it exploded into a silver color and became the size of a grape. It didn't stop there as it once again turned into light gold then deep gold, by now it was the size of an egg.
It was shining like a miniature sun, when all the flames were sucked in completely it turned a deep red and gold color that was the size of a human head. It was spinning mysteriously while releasing energy ripples so strong it disturbed the air 60 meters around it.
Argent sucked in a cold breath of air as he was shocked at what was happening. He could see the first energy wave rippling towards him. His heart stopped when it crashed over him and his mind went blank for a moment, all the problems and difficulties he came across in his theory of condensation vanished and he saw the full puzzle.
But that was only for an instance as the red and gold, blood ball exploded with a blinding force. All the buildings in 1500 km 2 radius was turned to dust, 5 million people exploded into a mist of blood that was then absorbed by the blood ball.
The whole Silverlake city was in chaos as it started to fall from the sky, the impact of the explosion was truly too shocking and destroyed its foundations. The survivors all looked up at the same time as the city was falling and saw a golden – red ball the size of a house spinning, suspended in the air.
BOOOOOM!!
It then disappeared with a deafening noise, breaking the air causing a 100-meter-long rift in the sky to form.
From that day forward, the world had changed, the rift in the sky had still not healed...hundreds of years later Argent's research and theories on blood condensation would be regarded as world level breakthrough in biochemical gene stimulation and ushered in a new era of blood force. An era where espers with superpowers, meta beasts, and specialized bloodlines were created using his research as basis.
One thing for sure is... It got exciting
But that's a whole another story...
.....
Meanwhile In a different star system in a faraway world, a mysterious energy undulation came from nowhere and the blood ball tore open the black space and fell swiftly towards a planet thousands of times bigger than earth.
It was so big, that certain mountains on the continents and forests could be seen from space, the oceans were so majestic, they had a deep blue and purple color so intense it felt like looking at an azure amethyst crystal. It was spectacular and truly mystical to behold; its hemisphere so thick it created a flowing like membrane...
This was planet Embriyan!
WOOOSHH!!!
The house sized blood ball started vibrating excitedly as if it could not wait to return home. It fell like a star and entered the planet, the hemisphere spread out ripples, like a stone being thrown into a large lake.
Just as it met the atmosphere the blood ball exploded into 5 million golden red blood drops, scattering like lightning across the sky. The sight was a feast for the eyes...
All the citizens of this planet that saw this scene playing out in the sky was spellbound, they saw showers of millions of golden red lights streaking across the sky vanishing in different directions. From their perspectives it looked like a golden net was enclosing the world from above.
This event was remembered by the people across this world as the starburst phenomenon. Years later epic tales will be told about legendary villains such as Jee Lin "The left eyed demon" and Kyrion "Phoenix scryer" the many earth-shattering battles of these two enemies are mentioned the most, story tellers have titled them as "the demonic duo" ...
Arfang the extraordinary skywolf beast-man and mysterious heroes such as Aurora "the lady in the lake".
Thousands of noteworthy people rise in power, each one so powerful their actions will influence the whole planet Embriyan and leave its history books shaking for millennials.
Strangely many of these legends have one thing in common, they were all related to the starburst phenomenon, so people started calling them Fallen stars.
That's a story that will be told in the near future...for now, let's return to the present...
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-Kingdom of Nidaros in the Qara empire Year 8550-
The Qara empire was the domain of the beast race and the Nidaros kingdom was ruled by the Skywolf clan. Deep within a lush forest stood a gigantic mountain the shape of a howling wolf, it was hundreds of kilometers tall stretching towards the heaven as if it could swallow the moon, the capital city Nova Ara was built on this majestic mountain.
The royal district was located on its highest peak...
Within the royal palace inside the queen's chamber, a woman was laying on her bed screaming in agony and howling like a wolf... She was giving birth.
"UAAAHRRHHGH"
"My queen, just a bit more! it is almost out; I can see the head"
"ARRGHH!! GET THIS THING OUT FROM ME!" screamed Queen Nyla.
"haaack!...I can't do it" she shuddered in pain
"Yes, you can my lady! Come on now get ready for it, LAST PUSH come now push..."
"AAARRRRGGGHHHH"
...
"Congratulations my queen It's a boy!" said the old midwife with a beaming smile.
"Why is he not crying? What's wrong with him, he should be crying right now!!"
"My Queen he is not breathing!!" the midwife panicked and tried everything in her power to revive the newborn prince. The queen's heart was on complete standstill praying for her son to start breathing again...
SWOOSH
Suddenly a bright light flew into the queen's chamber heading directly towards the newborn prince, the royal guards protecting the queen thought it was an attack and rushed towards the queen and her baby, but they were too slow to react and failed to block the light. It hit the newborn prince directly in the forehead with such force his tiny head rocked backwards, scaring the wits out of everyone present.
"NOOO MY SON!!!" Nyla shouted at the top of her lungs; her heart was bleeding seeing her newborn baby getting hit by an unknown projectile.
The prince's head was releasing light smoke from the impact and on his forehead a tiny faint blood drop shaped mark could be seen fading out. The blood drop raced through his veins and rushed towards his deathly still heart merging with it. Within seconds his heart grew a bit bigger beating heavily like a drum and a small amount of thick luscious blood blended into his blood flow.
He slowly opened his eyes and a golden red light flashed by momentarily.
"THE PRINCE IS ALIVE!!!"
"OOUUAAAAHH OUUAHHH"" the baby cried.
