Chapter 40: Infiltration and Destruction of the Acheron Core

The blood-red energy chains binding Alexander Rington’s body at the peak of the Central Mother Temple vibrate violently. The corrosive reaction from the dense antimatter fluid gushing from his chest cavity melts the ancient stone structures and holding chains into dust. The Third Prime Queen’s multi-eyed glow blinks chaotically, filled with a shock that shatters her mental coordination.

"Monster," the Third Prime Queen hisses, her voice projecting as a psionic wave cracking the protective crystals around the execution stage. "You allowed your twin hearts to be ripped out just to convert your bloodstream into an antimatter fusion trigger?!"

Alexander does not answer. His eyelids lift slowly, revealing bottomless pitch-black irises—the absolute void of the Dark Transcendence Phase. Lacking a heart organ in his chest, Alexander’s biological circulation is now entirely driven by a core energy glow absorbing all ambient radiation around the Acheron Sector.

"The blood of Rington and De La Croix is not made to be conquered," Alexander whispers, his voice echoing doubly through the void. "You summoned us as hosts, unaware that we are the poison designed to exterminate your entire species."

The dense antimatter fluid spreads like lightning along the Third Prime Queen’s bone arm!

"NO!" the Third Prime Queen screams hysterically. She abruptly severs her own arm using her left claws, letting her right arm melt away along with the fragments of Alexander’s twin hearts that instantly evaporate into an energy fusion reaction!

At the same time, the Leviathan-X space cruiser cuts through the initial rows of biological insect motherships in Acheron’s outer orbit.

"Lock target on the temple peak gravitational holding system!" Daniel shouts from the main control desk, his finger pressing the secondary Anti-Matter Cannon launch lever synchronized with the black crystal energy structure.

Two beams of pure silver light pierce the void, shattering the power transmitter tower network surrounding Alexander and the Third Prime Queen!

A void explosion erupts instantly! The artificial gravity field binding thousands of biological insect soldiers shatters apart, creating massive chaos among the Sector 09 invasion fleet.

"Genevieve, secure the upper perimeter!" Daniel shouts as he forces the Leviathan-X into an extreme landing maneuver right on the stone platform of the Central Mother Temple.

The Leviathan-X’s main airlock door swings wide open. Genevieve leaps out alongside Ethan and Stella, while baby Gabriel rests inside a specialized sling protected by an artificial De La Croix energy dome.

"ALEX!" Genevieve screams, her eyes staring in horror at the hollow hole in Alexander’s chest.

"Do not come close, Yev!" Alexander warns, holding back his wife’s steps by flicking a gentle yet impenetrable black wave of pressure. "The antimatter reaction process inside my bloodstream is at a critical threshold. A single physical touch will trigger an annihilation explosion within a ten-thousand-kilometer radius!"

The severely wounded Third Prime Queen crawls backward toward the ancient bone throne. Her right arm regenerates new biological tissue that grows rapidly, emitting an increasingly dense blood-red glow.

"You are too late, humans!" the Third Prime Queen cackles, her laughter projecting an infrasonic frequency that summons over a dozen Queen Core Guards—fifty-meter-scale giant biological entities encased in ancient diamond armor. "The consciousness transfer process of the Annihilation Invasion Mother into the Acheron Main Reactor is ninety-nine percent complete! Within thirty seconds, this entire planet becomes a weapon of mass destruction!"

Over a dozen Queen Core Guards charge forward, swinging biological crystal spears capable of slicing a warship’s hull!

"Let us handle them!" Ethan and Stella shout together.

The two children step in front of Genevieve. The pure gold glow inside their bodies explodes instantly, forming the De La Croix Twin Shield Aura. Ethan triggers void kinetic manipulation to hold back the thrust of the guards’ spears, while Stella releases a purifying radiation wave that burns and cracks the diamond armor of the insect entities!

Fierce battle erupts at the temple peak!

Genevieve utilizes the opening to step closer to Alexander, carrying baby Gabriel before her. "Alex, Gabriel carries the stability coordinates from Earth! The Dark Transcendence Phase consciousness inside his body can seal the antimatter reaction in your chest!"

Alexander looks at baby Gabriel. His previously hollow gaze suddenly trembles as he sees the pitch-black glow in his youngest son’s irises.

Baby Gabriel extends his small hands, emitting a beam of pure black light threads that drives with precision into the center of Alexander’s hollow chest cavity!

An instant healing reaction erupts inside Alexander’s blood circulation!

Flesh tissue, blood vessels, and artificial De La Croix twin heart organs regenerate within three seconds under the control of Gabriel’s genetic authority! The pitch-black glow in Alexander’s eyes merges perfectly with the pure gold glow, creating the Transcendental Balance Form—a supreme state never achieved by either the Rington or De La Croix clans in history!

Alexander takes a deep breath, feeling a power ten times stronger envelop his entire body. He grips the Death Scythe of Ouroboros once more, which now emits a combined black-gold glow slicing through the surrounding void structure.

"Thank you, my son," Alexander murmurs softly before turning his gaze straight toward the Third Prime Queen.

The Third Prime Queen’s eyes widen in pure terror as she beholds Alexander’s new form. "A perfect combination of two pure bloodlines... This is impossible!"

Without a single microsecond for the Third Prime Queen to move, Alexander stands right before her!

A single swing of the black-gold Death Scythe cuts down the ancient bone throne and shatters all core organs of the Third Prime Queen into atomic dust!

The Third Prime Queen’s death roar echoes across Sector 09, destroying the telepathic signal network controlling millions of insect ships in outer orbit!

However, as the Third Prime Queen’s body vanishes, a giant crystal console behind the throne suddenly emits an intensely bright red glow.

ACHERON SYSTEM WARNING: THE THIRD PRIME CONSCIOUSNESS REACTOR HAS REACHED A CRITICAL POINT. HIGHER-DIMENSION BOMB RELEASE MECHANISM TRIGGERED.

The floor of Acheron’s biological megastructure begins to collapse, sucked into a High-Dimension Black Vortex created at the planet’s core!

"The Acheron core reactor is not exploding physically..." Daniel hisses as he reads the data chart from the Leviathan-X. "It pulls all of Sector 09 into the Forbidden Void Dimension!"

Infinite gravitational force begins pulling the Leviathan-X, Alexander, Genevieve, and all their children toward the center of the black vortex!

"Alexander!" Genevieve screams, stretching out her arms!

Alexander leaps to grab Genevieve’s hand and tightly grips his children, drawing them close into the largest black-gold protective field he has ever created.

Both sides of the black vortex are suddenly torn open by a pair of planet-scale giant mechanical claws emerging from the outermost dimensional rift!

The ancient silver-chrome mechanical claws grip the edges of the black vortex, forcibly halting the dimensional collapse, while an extremely old and cold synthetic machine voice echoes from behind the giant claws.

"Warning to Rington-De La Croix Prototype Offspring. The Final Stage Test Subject Extermination Protocol Is Activated By The

True Creators Of Galactic Civilization."