Chapter 46: Soul Mirroring at the Peak of the Star

The red nebula fog wrapping the Peak of Star Zakar churns wildly as a vortex of photon radiation winds erodes the surface of the evacuation capsule. On the outer deck, Genevieve De La Croix stands rigid. Her arm hug around baby Gabriel tightens as her hazel irises lock onto the figure of a woman stepping out from the coils of crystal clouds in front of her.

The woman wears De La Croix Combat Armor made of pure silver-chrome with the clan’s crown emblem engraved burning on the chest plate. Her face, bone structure, and even breath intonation are one hundred percent identical to Genevieve—a perfect biological clone designed by Sebastian De La Croix using the finest DNA sample stolen two decades ago.

"Who are you?!" Genevieve shouts, her voice slicing through the deafening roar of the photon wind.

The Genevieve clone carves a cold smile empty of moral warmth. Her hand holding a silver energy spear rises, aiming the blade tip vibrating at a killing frequency straight at baby Gabriel’s neck.

"I am your perfected self, Genevieve," the clone says with a perfectly identical vocal intonation. "You are a failed version bound by human emotion, family weakness, and an idiotic love for Alexander Rington. Sebastian created me to erase the flaw inside the De La Croix bloodline."

"You are just a doll made of synthetic material!" Daniel roars as he leaps out from the capsule’s control cabin while pointing a secondary plasma rifle with his trembling left hand.

Without a single motion pause that an ordinary eye scanner can catch, the Genevieve clone flicks the tip of her spear!

A line of silver cutting wave slices through the void air, severing Daniel’s plasma rifle into two parts before the man has time to pull the trigger! The kick of its kinetic wind throws Daniel crashing into the outer wall of the capsule until he vomits black blood!

"Don’t touch him!" Ethan and Stella shout together.

The two kids step forward to shield their mother. The pure gold glow inside Ethan and Stella’s bodies blazes instantly, forming a double De La Croix shield that stretches between them and the clone figure.

However, the Genevieve clone only chuckles softly upon seeing the shield. "Sebastian’s unfortunate grandchildren. You use low-level defense techniques designed by your dying grandfather. Let me show you how the pure power of De La Croix works!"

The clone drives the base of her silver spear into the crystal ground of the Peak of Star Zakar!

A seal circle fifty meters in diameter is created beneath Ethan and Stella’s feet! Pure photon radiation spurts out from between the crystal floor, destroying the two kids’ double shield within one-thousandth of a second and throwing them sprawling unconscious on the capsule deck!

"ETHAN! STELLA!" Genevieve screams hysterically.

She gently places Gabriel inside the tightly sealed protective capsule cabin, then draws an ancient energy dagger crafted by Arthur from inside her military trench coat. The De La Croix golden aura inside Genevieve’s body explodes, reaching its peak threshold, enveloping her entire skin and clothing with pure flames!

"You want my child and this sword?!" Genevieve roars as she charges forward through the nebula fog! "Over my dead body first!"

A fierce battle between two women with identical bloodlines shatters the silence of the Peak of Star Zakar!

Every stroke of Genevieve’s dagger collides hard with the clone’s silver spear, sparking flashes of photon fire that crack the crystal mountain structure around them. Their movements are so symmetrical, mutually reading each other’s flow of attack and defense with absolute precision that confuses the vision!

However, the Genevieve clone possesses physical strength and a photon energy supply directly backed by the Creator Fleet. Within fifty slashes, biological fatigue begins to gnaw at Genevieve’s stamina. Her breath pants heavily, and fresh blood drips from the slash wound on her left shoulder.

"You are tired, Genevieve," the clone hisses as she shoves the tip of her spear, striking Genevieve’s chest until the woman is thrown and falls sprawling at the foot of the Peak of the Star stone stairs!

Genevieve vomits thick blood, clutching her tight chest. Atop the peak of the crystal mountain, a continent-scale giant sword, the Avenging Sword of Zakar, stands impaled, blazing inside ancient golden flames, emitting a resonance connected directly to her blood circulation.

The Genevieve clone steps toward Genevieve calmly, spinning her silver spear in the air. "Die and let me take your place beside Sebastian and the brainwashed Alexander."

The clone swings her spear straight toward Genevieve’s heart!

Suddenly, a lash of black-gold lightning strikes from the nebula sky, hitting right between Genevieve and the clone!

The shockwave of the impact throws the Genevieve clone back ten steps!

From behind the high-rising plume of crystal dust, steps out a figure in black metal armor with a silver-chrome mask coating his face: Alexander Rington in the Dimension-Traversing War God Form!

"Alex...?" Genevieve whispers with a pool of tears swelling at the corners of her eyes.

However, Alexander does not turn or offer a warm greeting. His silver-golden irises emit an absolute cold void. In his right hand, liquid black metal has formed an execution sword that emits a time-reversing radiation glow!

"Subject De La Croix Clone," the echoing voice of machine and Alexander comes out from behind the silver mask, "is deemed to disrupt the containment process of the Sword of Zakar. Eradicate."

Without a single micro-second pause, Alexander cuts the distance between himself and the Genevieve clone!

The clone widens her eyes in shock, reflexively raising her silver spear to block the strike!

A single swing of Alexander’s execution sword cuts the silver spear and the Genevieve clone’s body into two parts vertically!

Synthetic silver metal fluid spurts heavily from the clone’s body as her molecular structure disintegrates and evaporates into ash inside the sea of photon water!

Genevieve crawls up, reaching out her hand to touch the arm of Alexander’s black armor. "Alex... You came back for us. You still remember me, right?!"

Alexander slowly turns his head, staring straight toward Genevieve.

However, before Genevieve’s hand can touch her husband’s Armor of War Sins, a holographic projection of Sebastian De La Croix suddenly emerges from inside Alexander’s silver mask circuits!

"Stop your ridiculous actions, Genevieve." Sebastian laughs coldly through Alexander’s mask speaker. "Alexander did not come to save you. He was sent by me to destroy the Avenging Sword of Zakar before you can use it!"

Alexander raises his execution sword high in the air, pointing it straight at the core of the Avenging Sword of Zakar atop the crystal mountain!

"ALEX! DON’T!" Genevieve screams hysterically.

Alexander swings his sword with full planet-crushing force!

The collision between Alexander’s execution sword and the Avenging Sword of Zakar triggers an explosion of cosmic energy waves that destroys the peak of the crystal mountain into millions of fragments!

However, as the explosion flames thin out, it is not the Sword of Zakar that is destroyed, but rather a giant dimensional prison seal inside the mountain’s core that suddenly bursts wide open!

From inside the broken prison seal, thousands of ancient spirit shadows of Rington and De La Croix who have been dead for tens of thousands of years emerge, instantly merging into baby Gabriel’s body inside the capsule!

Baby Gabriel floats out from inside the capsule, his eyes open wide, emitting a combined glow of three pure colors, while a crown of golden fire is created above his head, a birth sign of the True Primordial Ruler!

Sebastian inside the projection broadcast widens his eyes in horror as he watches Gabriel’s data graph spike beyond the capacity of the Creator Fleet’s computers!

"This is no ordinary sword! The Sword of Zakar is the Key to the Ancestral Soul Awakening!" Sebastian shouts hysterically.

At the exact same time, Alexander, hit by the shockwave, bows his head stiffly, while golden cracks suddenly open violently across the silver-chrome mask on his face as his locked human consciousness sudden

ly screams and roars from deep within his soul!