"Blood Angel: Final Form!"
I gave up all my defenses and injected all my blood energy into my feathered wings. In an instant, blood-red energy covered my entire body, forming a complete set of energy armor. This was the strongest state of the Blood Angel Form, at the cost of...
[Warning: Life force depletion is too fast!
- Estimated Sustainability: 8 minutes
- Organ load: Critical.
- Cellular disintegration rate rising]
"Worth it!"
The energy plumes unfolded to their limit, transforming into countless sharp blood blades. The remaining experimental subjects attacked at the same time, and their bodies began to mutate, taking on various ghastly forms.
But the current me was so fast that I was leaving behind residual shadows.
"Blood Dance!"
Within a second, three experimental bodies were pierced by the blood blades. But instead of collapsing, they revealed eerie smiles as their bodies began to disintegrate into purple energy particles.
"Don't you understand, Liam?" Elizabeth's voice carried pity, "For every experiment you destroy, the Time Resonator absorbs the transformed energy. Your battle... Is accelerating the completion of the program."
Damn! I look to the huge metal ring in the sky, it's vibrating at a specific frequency, collecting the purple energy in the air.
"System, is there another route?"
[Analyzing...
Underground passageway found:
- Location: Northwest corner drainage system
- But... Powerful energy fluctuations detected.
Attention: possible trap.
Couldn't care less!
"Blood Shift!"
Instantly shifting to the drain, I was about to dive in when I suddenly felt a familiar energy fluctuation.
"Long time no see, commander."
A figure stepped out of the darkness, and I recognized the face - Victor Kane, my most trusted lieutenant in my previous life, and the... The one who betrayed me in the end.
"Impossible!" I sucked in a breath of cold air, "You weren't supposed to awaken in this timeline!"
Victor gave his trademark sneer, "Who says this is me in this timeline?"
Boom!
A pure black energy erupted from within him, it was... Dark Angel's power!
"Ding! Danger warning:
- Target: Dark Angel Awakened
- Combat power: SSS class.
- Special status: from future timeline"
"Elizabeth is a genius," Victor moves his arm covered in black energy, 'taking the consciousness of us 'dead' people and bringing it back through the time resonator. How about it, commander, want to see if your Blood Angels, or my Dark Angels are stronger?"
"Why?" I stared at my former second-in-command, "Why the betrayal?"
"Betrayal?" He laughed, "You think you're a victim? Naive Liam, tell me, have you ever wondered... Why you're the one who was born again?"
What?
Without waiting for me to react, Victor had already attacked. The black energy transformed into countless sharp blades, carrying an aura of tearing through space and time.
I reluctantly unfolded my blood energy shield, but the Dark Angel's power was so overbearing that it directly tore through the defense.
"Dark Corruption!"
Victor's energy began to eat away at my blood energy, like some kind of virus corrupting the system.
"Let me tell you the truth," his voice rang in my ears, 'Project Angel was never an experiment, it was a 'choice'. elizabeth chose you to be the first perfect 'vessel'."
"Vessel?"
"Yes," his attacks grew more violent, "to hold... The vessel of time!"
Just then, the time resonator suddenly let out a piercing chirp. All the purple energy was drawn into the metal ring, creating a vortex.
"Time's up," Victor took a step back, "Let's see if you can keep your sanity when the truth comes down."
Elizabeth's voice came from the underground lab:
"Genesis Protocol final stage activated. timeline convergence in 3.... .2... .1..."
In an instant, countless fragments of memory flooded my brain:
I saw... The original lab.
Saw Elizabeth working in front of the time resonator.
Saw myself in countless timelines.
And then there was... The most horrible truth of all.
"No... This can't be..."
I finally realized everything. It turns out that from the very beginning...