Blood apostle-Chapter 91

Outer Rim Bastion – Arton's Front: The Iron Flame Campaign

The skies over Vrax-Delta churned with black fire. Ash-clouds blotted out the stars, and the ground trembled under the weight of siege-mechs shaped like gods of war. The Iron Flame, Arton's war banner, burned from orbital platforms—its sigil a broken star coiled by steel.

Arton stood atop the wreckage of a fallen cruiser, one arm still crackling with technonite backlash. His High Guard—hulking warriors fused to mech-frames and voidwalk armor—marched across cratered plains, smashing through resistance like thunder.

Across the battlefield, rebel Kruger tanks turned and fled. The last planetary governor begged for surrender.

Arton didn't listen.

This war wasn't about control. It was about fear. Legacy. Dominance.

"They need to remember," he muttered, watching a rail-cannon vaporize an escape column. "We didn't survive the Reach just to kneel."

Behind him, his generals whispered that Neix had begun targeting his supply lines.

Arton smiled.

Let her come.

Fractal Belt – Neix's Front: The Silent Blossom Offensive

Where Arton brought fire, Neix brought silence.

In the cold dark between planetary belts, her Veil Legions moved like ghosts—shimmering dropships that appeared without radar, soldiers who whispered psion-blades into existence before cutting through entire battalions.

On Kassir-Twelve, a Kruger base woke to find all officers dead and their command data wiped.

On Vult Prime, entire battalions turned their guns on each other under subtle neurocurse programs seeded by Neix's spies.

She didn't seek the throne. Not directly.

She wanted correction. The return of the Archive's original doctrine—cold, calculated inheritance through worth, not blood.

And yet... even she found herself pulled toward the echoes of a shadow beyond the war. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

The Blood Apostle's name had not been spoken since Vevadexus fell.

But she'd begun dreaming of a heartbeat in the dark.

Ilexian Worlds – Zion's Front: The Codex Crusade

The Ilexian Codex hummed on Zion's spine, fusing deeper with his nervous system by the hour. His armies marched not just with weapons—but with prophecy.

Orbital gates opened only at statistically perfect angles. Enemy fleets were intercepted minutes before they fired. He ran the war like a grand algorithm.

But behind his silver eyes, Zion was changing.

The Codex whispered of Kiro in dreams—but not as a man.

As a vessel.

A necessary collapse. The last variable in the Archive's equation.

He didn't tell his commanders. Not yet. They needed faith, not doubt.

And yet, the deeper he stared into the Archive's awakening math, the more he realized:

The war wasn't the threat.

It was the delay.

Outer Systems – Niro's Front: The Ember Reign

While the others plotted, Niro burned.

He held the most Kruger battalions, the largest fleet, and the old Empire's best warships. His Ember Fleet carved swaths of scorched voidspace through rebel systems.

He took no prisoners.

Each conquered world was branded with the sigil of his flame—not as ruler, but as judge.

To the galaxy, he had declared war on his siblings. But only Niro knew the truth:

This civil war was bait.

A fire meant to draw something ancient out of hiding.

Kiro.

The real heir.

The only one who had touched the core of the Archive and lived.

And as Niro gazed out at the fleet formations assembling above Paleon-Six, he whispered under his breath:

"Forgive me, brother. I need the galaxy to burn... so they'll come looking for a savior."

World of Nect – At the Edge of Peace

The meadow winds had stopped singing.

Kiro lay beneath a weeping tree whose bark shimmered like pearl, breathing shallow gasps. His body, once vibrant with raw power, was now wracked with black lesions and veins that pulsed with corrupted light.

Radiation poisoning from the Graveband's corestorm had liquefied part of his lungs.

Worse was the Voidtouch—a creeping infection in his bloodline, left behind when he touched the dying fragment of a Prime God and pulled something back with him.

His shard no longer pulsed.

The Blood System was dormant, sealed in hibernation.

But the Archive stirred beneath it. And Kiro's dreams were filled with voices not his own:

"The heirs fight for a throne that was never theirs."

"The Trial was never meant to crown a ruler."

"You are not their equal, Kiro. You are their reckoning."

The village doctor—one of Nect's flower priests—stood helpless. "The boy bleeds starfire and screams in dead languages. What is he?"

No one knew.

No one but Pablo El'Vertigo, who had finally received the coordinates.

And who was now en route.