Chapter 47: The God Who Was One-Shot
I left my father’s fight behind. My own mission wasn’t over.
I ran through the basement corridors, following the plans I had memorized. Alarms were blaring. My father’s soldiers were securing the base, exchanging fire with the lab’s mercenaries. It was chaos.
I found the control room. A large, reinforced door, like a vault. It was locked.
I didn’t look for a code.
I placed my hand on the steel. I used my dagger, not as a weapon, but as a key. I felt the energy of the locking mechanism and erased it.
The locks retracted with a series of dull clicks.
I pushed the heavy door and entered.
The control room was a large, circular chamber, filled with screens and consoles.
And in the center, Dr. Aris Thorne was there.
He didn’t seem surprised to see me. He just looked at me with his cold, calculating eyes.
He was holding a syringe. A large syringe filled with the same black, pulsating liquid I had seen in the reports. Abyss creature cells, pure and concentrated.
"You’re just in time," he said, his voice calm despite the chaos outside. "To witness the birth of a god."