Lilith withdrew her gaze. The Alien Queen beneath her feet let out a low hiss, moved its thick forelimbs, and began heading toward the back mountain.
"Boom— Boom— Boom—"
With every step, the ground trembled.
Those two giant claws, covered in heavy Exoskeleton, sank deep into the mud; every time they were pulled out, they left a deep claw pit in the ground.
Its massive body dragged along the ground, plowing a deep furrow.
The trees along the way were like fragile blades of grass before the Alien Queen.
One after another, they were crushed and flattened by that massive body.
Tree canopies crashed to the ground, branches and leaves splattered, and dust flew everywhere.
Nothing could stop the pace of this behemoth.
The back mountain, outside Lilith's nest.
It was a huge, manually excavated platform, originally large enough to accommodate Lilith's true form while she rested.
But at this moment, when the Alien Queen's massive seventy-meter body stepped onto the platform, the entire space instantly felt cramped and crowded.
Lilith leaped lightly from the top of the Queen's head and landed on the ground.
She turned around, her crimson eyes staring directly at the colossal creature before her.
Similar Bloodlines flowed within their bodies.
Xenomorph Gene.
T-virus.
And at this moment, that Queen Plaga, which had fused with the T-virus, was still parasitic within the Alien Queen's mind.
Lilith closed her eyes.
In the next instant, a thick red mist suddenly erupted from around her!
The red mist was as thick as blood, rolling like a tide, instantly swallowing her petite body completely!
The red mist continued to expand and grow, covering a wider and wider area, eventually enveloping both her and the Alien Queen beneath her!
Within the mist, something was expanding, deforming, and reshaping.
Bones cracked and popped.
Muscles tore and reorganized.
Exoskeleton grew frantically from beneath the skin.
A few seconds later—
The red mist dissipated.
A colossal entity appeared before the Alien Queen.
Lilith's second form—Tyrant.
The silver-white Exoskeleton shimmered with a cold metallic luster under the setting sun. On her hideous head, four crimson vertical pupils narrowed slightly.
The dragon wings on her back slowly unfurled, reaching a wingspan of sixty-eight meters, blotting out the sky.
Her fifty-two-meter-long body, though slightly smaller than the Alien Queen, emitted a pressure that was not at all inferior to the other; it was even stronger!
Strong enough to suffocate an opponent!
Lilith moved her giant claws, walking step by step toward the Alien Queen.
Her steps were steady and powerful, carrying an unquestionable sense of oppression.
The Alien Queen lowered its head slightly, its dark-gold vertical pupils watching this fellow creature approach.
It felt it.
The natural suppression of a superior over an inferior originating from the depths of the Bloodline.
She was the Alien Queen, but the other was the Xenomorph Sovereign!
Lilith walked up to it and stopped.
And then—
She opened her bloody maw, filled with sharp teeth, and bit down hard on the Alien Queen's thick neck!
"Puchi—!"
The sharp teeth pierced the Exoskeleton and sank deep into the flesh!
The Alien Queen let out a low hiss, its massive body trembling slightly.
But it did not struggle, it did not resist, and it did not even show any hostility.
It just stood there quietly, allowing the figure that was smaller than itself yet more majestic to suck its blood.
Lilith closed her eyes.
She could clearly feel the Alien Queen's blood flowing into her body through her teeth—warm, viscous, and containing rich biological energy.
This blood resonated, fused, and assimilated with her own Bloodline, transforming into a new and more powerful force.
At the same time, the blood in her own body surged frantically, flowing back into the Alien Queen's body through the bite wound.
That blood contained concentrated G-Virus factors.
The two types of blood formed a bizarre cycle within her body and through the wound between her and the Alien Queen.
Sucking.
Injecting.
Sucking again.
Injecting again.
The Alien Queen was very strong.
Having fused the genes of the Mosasaurus, the Xenomorph Queen, the T-virus, and the Plaga Parasite, it was absolutely a terrifying existence at the top of the food chain.
But its growth had an upper limit.
Genes determined its starting point and also its end point.
But Lilith's blood contained her unique G-Virus evolution factor.
That factor would not destroy the Alien Queen, nor would it assimilate the Alien Queen; it would only—
Grant it the potential for infinite evolution.
From now on, this Alien Queen would no longer be a dead thing created by human technology.
It would possess the same abilities as Lilith.
Through constant fighting, constant devouring, and constant evolution, it would break through its original genetic limits.
Lilith released her bite and slowly took a step back.
Her four crimson vertical pupils watched the rapidly Healing wound on the Alien Queen's neck, narrowing slightly.
In the next moment, the G-Virus factors fused with Lilith's blood began to reorganize the chaotic genes within the Alien Queen's body.
The Alien Queen's massive body was undergoing changes visible to the naked eye at this very moment.
"Tear—!"
A pair of giant dragon wings tore through the skin from the Alien Queen's shoulder blades, crushing the Exoskeleton, and then rapidly expanded.
In the blink of an eye, the wingspan reached a hundred meters.
Simultaneously, the Alien Queen's body was undergoing a visible evolution.
The body became more streamlined and aesthetic; muscles reorganized and compressed, and the thick, giant claws slowly retracted.
Though not as hideously exaggerated as before, its strength was even greater than ever.
The Alien Queen's body was already massive, and Lilith had consumed a large amount of energy held in Storage to produce enough blood to completely replace the blood within the Alien Queen.
Forti had not rejected her blood back then because he had copied and embedded Fenrir's talent.
But the Alien Queen shared the same Bloodline origin as her, so it would not reject it either; instead, it absorbed it more smoothly and perfectly, directly completing an evolution in its level of life.
The current Alien Queen was truly a BOSS comparable to SSS-Rank Hunter.
Furthermore, she would continue to grow and evolve, and would not be eliminated by the era because of the progress of SSS-Rank Hunter.
Her evolution would be even faster than those powerful Hunters!
With the genetic reinforcement from the T-virus, the current Alien Queen's overall strength was already no weaker than Lilith's first form.
It could be said that in the entire Tianqi, she was the strongest combat force besides Lilith herself!
And this was only her starting point; her true terror lay in breeding and creating powerful Xenomorph Guardss!
"From this day forth,"
Lilith's low, youthful voice echoed across the empty platform.
"You are my true Bloodline."
The Alien Queen slowly lowered its head, and in those dark-gold vertical pupils, a light flickered that had never been there before.
That was—loyalty.
Unlike Brandy's compliance based on survival instinct.
This was an absolute submission originating from the depths of the Bloodline and the very source of life.
Lilith turned around and looked toward the brightly lit Apocalypse Base in the distance.
The last glimmer of the setting sun disappeared below the horizon.
Night had fallen.
But the future of Tianqi had only just begun.