*Crack.*
Faint but dense sounds of fracturing came from the Silver-White Tyrant's back.
The silver-white Exoskeleton plates, originally tightly interlocking and smooth as a mirror, were now being forced open by a terrifying entity gestating within, silently splitting into twelve neat fissures.
Inside the fissures was not flesh, but a darkness purer than the deepest night.
Then, the darkness surged.
A silver-white object, pieced together from segments of bone and bone spurs, slowly poked out.
It wasn't a tail, but its form was more flexible and eerie.
Then came the second, the third... and finally, a total of twelve silver-white skeletal tentacles, like slumbering giant pythons, fully extended!
Each tentacle was over a hundred meters long, composed of countless silver-white bone joints connected together. The surfaces of the joints were covered with dark red energy veins, outlining sinister and ancient demonic patterns.
The end of each tentacle was not blunt and rounded, but shaped into a sharp bone blade shimmering with cold light!
The twelve skeletal tentacles unfurled and swayed behind Lilith, like a silver cloak woven of bone and death that obscured nearly half the sky.
Their mere existence emitted an aura more primitive and overbearing than Ghost Prison's The Lament of Annihilation.
"Buzz—!!!"
For the first time, Lilith's previously stable energy field showed visible and violent turbulence!
On the surface of the silver-white Exoskeleton covering her entire body, those dark red demonic patterns seemed to be instantly granted life, beginning to spread, proliferate, and deepen frantically!
The patterns became more complex and ancient, filled with an ominous and sinister beauty, as if the final chapter of some forbidden ritual were being etched onto her shell.
Immediately after—
A continuous series of scalp-numbing bone explosions rang out; it wasn't breakage, but growth, expansion, and reconstruction!
Lilith's already massive body, as if breaking free from its final shackles, began to grow taller at an astonishing Speed!
Her height rose sharply from eighteen meters to twenty-five meters! Thirty meters!
Her body length extended in sync, as muscles and bones underwent incredible secondary development and strengthening under the guidance of the demonic patterns!
At the joints, sinister protective bone spurs proliferated wildly like thorns, glinting with cold light.
The bone tail, acting as her primary weapon, grew segment by segment, its length easily exceeding thirty meters. The tail blade was also covered in sinister demonic patterns.
On the dragon wings that spanned nearly a hundred meters, those blood-colored eye patterns that had been merely decorative—at this moment—
Suddenly snapped open!
Dozens of crimson vertical pupils appeared vividly on the dragon wing membrane!
They were cold, greedy, and driven by pure hunting instinct. They swiveled in unison, instantly locking onto Ghost Prison's massive, ashen body in the distance!
"Boom!!!"
The G-0 Tyrant took a step forward.
Giant claws covered in heavy Exoskeleton and etched with complex demonic patterns stepped onto the ground of the City ruins.
It was no longer a dull impact, but a declaration, a trampling of territory!
The next moment—
Centering on her footfall, violent crimson electric arcs, like a bursting core of a thunder prison, expanded and spread outward in all directions!
In an instant, they carved out a crimson domain within a hundred-meter radius around her!
The ashen-white aura of decay encroaching from Ghost Prison seemed to have met its natural enemy; upon touching the edge of this crimson domain, it was rapidly eroded, decomposed, and annihilated by the violent Blood Demon Lightning!
It could no longer advance a single inch!
In the confrontation of domains, with just a single encounter, the G-0 Tyrant had declared her sovereignty in the most brutal fashion!
But this was only the beginning.
Red light seemed to flow within the activated demonic patterns attached to Lilith's Bone Armor.
Then, beetle-sized points of light rose silently.
They were like awakened crimson fireflies, light yet swift as they flew high into the air, then like hunters with independent wills, they precisely locked onto the flesh monsters scattered throughout the Tokyo ruins.
Having locked onto their prey, the light points moved rapidly and bored into them.
Immediately, the hit flesh monsters stiffened, and then began a mutation far more bizarre and thorough than Ghost Prison's transformation!
The purple-black flesh no longer maintained its original form, but churned and twisted violently like boiling water!
The ashen color on the surface was forcibly stripped and expelled, replaced by crimson-shimmering demonic patterns of the same origin as those on the G-0 Tyrant!
These patterns were like living viruses, proliferating, eroding, and remodeling along the monsters' nerves, blood vessels, muscle fibers, and even bone marrow!
In just a few seconds, hundreds of new creatures of various forms—all uniformly covered in rough Bone Armor and crimson demonic patterns—stopped their aimless wandering.
A greedy red light, identical to that in the eyes on the dragon wings, flickered in their eyes. Then, like scavengers receiving a supreme command, they pounced without hesitation on their other un-remodeled kin!
Tearing! Biting! Infecting!
The T-virus's violent instinct to spread, the G-Virus's obsessive desire for a perfect host and its impulse for infinite evolution, and the Spiritual Spores' invisible erosion characteristics.
And the absolute control and dominion authority of the Gene Dominator.
At this moment, they were perfectly fused and released by the G-0 Tyrant form, turning into a more efficient and overbearing predatory weapon.
Ghost Prison's hive was collapsing; Lilith's swarm was being born.
Until this moment, the G-Virus's primitive instinct, which had been suppressed and sealed deep within the bloodline by the Gene Dominator talent...
...that mad desire to usurp the host and find the strongest vessel to achieve infinite evolution...
...finally found a permitted, even encouraged, outlet.
It wasn't rebelling against the primary consciousness, but rather fusing and sublimating all its most essential, dangerous, and uncontrollable characteristics with Lilith's existing gene pool and authority.
This gave rise to an ultimate form beyond the scope of conventional biological understanding—the G-0 Tyrant.
Lilith, or rather the G-0 Tyrant, slowly raised her more majestic and sinister head.
Above the Xenomorph Queen's bone crown, even more tiny crimson compound eyes lit up instantly. Together with the six vertical pupils belonging to Lilith herself beneath the crown, they formed an all-encompassing death vision that locked firmly onto Ghost Prison.
No roar was needed, no declaration.
She merely stood there, the twelve skeletal tentacles behind her swaying slowly, the crimson thunder prison and demonic patterns around her reflecting each other, and dozens of blood-eyes on her dragon wings staring coldly. This alone made the atmosphere of despair in this world thick enough to be suffocating!
Ghost Prison's ashen-white domain of decay appeared so pale and powerless before her now.
The G-0 Tyrant grinned, revealing rows of interlocking, massive white teeth.
That smile was purer and more sinister than Ghost Prison's, which was patched together from countless pained human faces.
Greed, unmasked and palpable.
"Swish—!"
There was no charging up or warning.
Within Ghost Prison's millions of compound eyes, it couldn't even capture how the G-0 Tyrant vanished from her spot.
It only felt a terrifying killing intent that froze its soul suddenly descend upon it, as a flash of blood appeared before its eyes—
*Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!...*
Twelve muffled sounds of sharp blades piercing thick leather and bone rang out almost simultaneously!
The G-0 Tyrant's twelve skeletal tentacles, their tips shining with cold light, were like twelve judgment spears from hell. From various tricky angles, they instantly and completely impaled all the vital points and energy nodes of Ghost Prison's ashen body!
The chest, abdomen, shoulder blades, and even the base of those massive ashen-white dragon wings!
The activated demonic patterns on the tentacles erupted with an eerie red light, instantly turning into countless greedy suction tubes and energy conduits, beginning to frantically extract and devour everything within Ghost Prison's body!
Flesh essence, purple-black frenzied energy, and the tens of millions of soul fragments that had not yet fully dissipated.
All the sources that constituted Ghost Prison's divine body and power, at this moment, surged uncontrollably along the twelve skeletal tentacles into the G-0 Tyrant's body like a bursting dam!
Meanwhile, the G-0 Tyrant's giant claw, covered in sinister Bone Armor and etched with crimson patterns, pressed down like a mountain. With Speed and strength Ghost Prison could not comprehend, it slammed into the head Ghost Prison had just raised in an attempt to roar and resist!
"Boom—!!!"
Ghost Prison's massive, ashen head was pinned ruthlessly into the scarred ruins below by an irresistible force!
A circle of radial cracks exploded at the point of impact!
No matter how Ghost Prison struggled frantically, how it urged its hive energy to repair itself, or how it mobilized its remaining ashen-white domain of decay to counterattack...
...under the frantic feeding of those twelve skeletal tentacles rooted in its life source, and under the suppression of the giant claw carrying Lilith's ultimate power, all resistance appeared so pale and laughable.
The destructive energy it had just gathered to launch a final strike was forcibly intercepted, stripped, and sucked away before it could even take shape!
It became nourishment to sustain the G-0 Tyrant!
Power was draining rapidly, its body was shriveling and turning ashen irreversibly, and its consciousness was quickly blurring in the painful void brought by the drainage.
Until this moment, within Ghost Prison's millions of compound eyes covered by grey cataracts, the G-0 Tyrant's demon-god-like figure and the pure, extreme greed in her eyes were finally reflected with absolute clarity.
Fear.
Absolute fear originating from biological instinct, like the coldest venom, instantly filled every corner of its frenzied consciousness.
It understood.
The rank one, Night.
Was not some human powerhouse at all.
She was a monster through and through!
And its own pseudo-god body, forged by the power of an entire nation and the sacrifice of tens of millions of lives, was in her eyes nothing more than a slightly succulent stepping stone.
A feast worth savoring properly.
Its consciousness, like a candle in the wind, quickly dimmed.
Under the night sky of Tokyo, the light of the crimson thunder prison and demonic patterns completely overwhelmed the gradually dissipating ashen-white.
The devouring continued.
Lilith's third form was also beginning to be forged...