The siphon chamber was a heart of molten rock and dying Elder Tech. The air crackled with stolen energy. At its center, suspended in a failing containment field, pulsed the Void Seed fragment – larger than Europa's, radiating raw power.
[VOID SEED RESONANCE: EXTREME - CORRUPTION DETECTED]
Shadows detached from the walls. Not Keepers. Corrupted ones. Twisted by Phobos's energy, fused with machinery, Void Seed corruption glowing in their hollow eyes.
Wu Gen's sword became a blur of silver and darkness, each cut opening miniature Void Cuts that swallowed corrupted limbs. "Get the fragment! I'll hold them!"
Lin Mo ran. The fragment called to him, a siren song of infinite power. His ring burned.
[WARNING: CORRUPTION WAVE DETECTED]
A pulse of sickly violet energy washed from the fragment. It bypassed armor, seeking the Void Seed within him.
[OMEGA GHOST: FORCED EMULATION - CORRUPTION COUNTERMEASURE]
Lin Mo's body morphed, not into Omega, but a blur of unstable Void energy. The corruption wave passed through him, harmlessly. [ENERGY: 5 UNITS]
He reached the containment field. The fragment thrashed like a caged beast.
[ABSORB: INITIATE]
Madness flooded him. The collective agony of Phobos, the rage of the trapped Consumer fragment, the dying thoughts of corrupted Keepers. He saw the Elder Things' fear. Saw Tomb-01 not as a cage, but a failed experiment.
[SYNTHESIS: SUPPRESSING CORRUPTION… 47%…]
[VOID SEED INTEGRITY: 97%]
[WARNING: PSYCHIC INTEGRITY FALTERING]
Above, a deafening explosion rocked the chamber. Tomb-01, enraged by the siphon's destruction, fired its primary erasure beam down through Phobos's crust.
The ceiling vaporized. Obsidian death plunged towards them.