As Dracula sat in his bridge's chair he couldn't shake the uneasy feeling in his mind.
The reports from the ground indicated that the ground forces had successfully breached the imperial bunker's doors, and they were advancing deeper into the enemy stronghold whose corridors were big enough for our mechs and tanks, and IFVs to fit in.
The battle had been fierce and bloody, and the loss of lives on both sides with thousands of KIA already confirmed and more incoming every minute.
The fleet could only perform limited orbital bombardment in fear of killing their own soldiers if they fired too close.
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"F*ck why the f*ck do they have shields?!"
Andrew couldn't help but curse as he fired his gattling gun at a Briian soldier geared up in the most advanced power armor the empire had only to see his laser beams deflect from his purple shield.
The truth was that just like they should normal energy barriers didn't work but the Briaans scientists came up with a shielding system that harnessed the soldier's psionic power allowing the Briaans to defy the laws of physics.
One second Andrew was firing at the Briaan soldier only to see a Briaan that seemed to pop out from nowhere lunge at him with his laser-edged combat knife.
As he did he dropped his weapon, took out his own laser-edged combat knife, and plunged it into the soldier's neck.
Only for the supposed briaan soldier to morph into his platoons commander that saved his life earlier.
"I... I..."
Andrew's breath hitched as he looked down at his commander's twitching body, the shock of what he did left him momentarily speechless, and guilt washed over him for having taken the life of someone that his just moments ago.
His mind raced, trying to make sense of what just happened as he looked around he saw UNOE soldiers killing each other as their comrades tried to stop them, it was pure chaos.
Panzers and IFVs fired at each other, mechs punching each other while the Briaans gunned down one marine after another as If they were in a shooting range.
Although the psionic battalion had the ability to cause such chaos when they combined their powers the truth was that without at least level 3 psychic they could have never achieved such success.
And there was only one level 3 psychic in the empire and that was the emperor himself.
"Strange that pilot isn't a psychic but how come she is resisting my combined telepathy"
Can Nil geared up in his fancy power armor that looked like a knight's ceremonial armor muttered to himself as he advanced toward Lilith's mech which tried its best to prevent the UNOE soldiers from killing each other.
While severing one marine after another with his laser-edged greatsword with his twelve psionic knights who were almost machines at this point because of their enhancements that artificially granted them the power of level 2 psychic.
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"Ground control! Its mayhem over here we're killing each other! Ground control!..."
Lilith tried to communicate with ground control but because of the bunkers jamming she couldn't reach them at all.
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As I listened to the sporadic communication the feeling of impending catastrophe grew stronger inside me to the point that my head was ringing with alarm bells.
"I don't care what you do but fix the goddamn communication, I want to know what the f*ck is going on down there!"
Dracula snapped at his officers making them tremble because they felt like a monster was staring at them instead of their admiral.
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As Can Nil entered Lilith's mech sensors, he felt a surge of power as he activated his psionic abilities.
In that moment, time seemed to slow down as Lilith's mech froze, her finger hovering over the trigger.
Can Nil's psionic control over the battlefield was unmatched, and he used this advantage to immobilize her completely.
Inside her mech, Lilith struggled to move, her muscles feeling like they were locked in place. She couldn't understand what was happening, her mind clouded by the psionic influence.
Can Nil approached the frozen mech, his expression unreadable behind his ceremonial armor's visor.
As he stood before Lilith's immobilized mech, he contemplated his next move, he could end her life right then and there, but something held him back.
There was a moment of hesitation, a flicker of doubt in his mind it felt like the moment he killed this pilot it would mean the extinction of his civilization.
What the f*ck? What is this?
The dumbfounded Can Nil thought but the next second his face morphed into one of pure rage.
"F*cking cockroach how dare you play tricks on me!"
Can Nil who wrongly assumed that Lilith was actually a psychic cursed out loud as he clenched his hand into a fist making Liliths both hearts explode.
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"Lilith..."
I muttered out as tears rolled down my cheeks, I don't know how I knew it but I just did.
At that moment time seemed to stop as my suppressed psionic power gushed out at once, my skin got covered in black arteries and veins while my eye's scleras became pitch black.
Pitch-black lighting enveloped me completely, as time returned to normal flow to the alarm of Aurora I was gone.
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The black lightning dispersed revealing my figure, everything around me was frozen in place I activated my psionic power and tore Lilith's cockpit open.
I made the frozen Lilith float into my arms and as I looked at her frozen face with blood already trickling down her lips my mind subconsciously connected to hers.
I saw the memories that even she didn't remember were of her opening her eyes as a baby for the first time only to find Marcus looking at her as she floated inside a tank.
I saw her struggling growing up without a mother and only a father who spent most of his time in his lab.
I saw her trying to be the best in everything with hopes of attracting her father's attention who only had research on his mind.
I saw her first impressions of me.
I also saw the struggles she had faced, the burden of leadership, and the weight of responsibility, the doubts and fears that she had carried, the pressure to be strong.
I felt how happy she was after seeing me alive and well and her emotions after learning that she was pregnant with my child.
I felt the heartache she had then I didn't answer her calls.
And then I saw the moment when Briaan killed her.
"Grhhhh..."
An image of an enormous pitch-black wolf growling as he stared at me while saliva dripped from his fangs from the embrace of the darkness flashed in my eyes.
As my rampaging psionic power materialized into two pitch-black wings on my back.
"Dont! Don't give in! Don't go down this path!"
The terrified whisperer who materialized before Dracula said with a trembling voice as he watched the pitch black wolf which was the physical manifestation of the end of the cycle coil itself around Dracula.
I looked up at the old man with black blood leaking down my cheeks, then to Cn Nil who although couldn't move but was aware, I could smell the fear emanating from him.
"You took away something from me and I will take everything away from you in return, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth..."
I muttered as I let go of Lilith's corpse and extended my hand allowing a pitch black scythe made out of black lithing to manifest.
"Nooo!..."
The whisperer cried out as he almost broke the laws of the universe by intervening but stopped himself at the last moment.
"Sigh* History repeats itself again..."
The whisperer muttered as he stared at hooded the grim reaper with black spiked armor and wings materializing behind Drac as he swung down his scythe onto Can Nil prompting the grim reaper to do the same.
The whisperer watched Can Nil get split in half while the reaper scythe lodged itself into the ground.
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The confused Aurora kept staring at Dracula's seat only to hear the senors officer cry out.
"XO! D... detecting tremendous amounts of energy! Our... our sensors cant calculate it anymore!"
The sensors officer said only for another officer to cry out.
"Gods have mercy on our souls..."
Aurora looked up only to see a chunk of a planet get obliterated into smithereens by black lightning.
The best comparison was of how a slice of cake gets cut out from the cake and that was exactly what happened.
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The whisperer looked at the pitch-black wolf that was smiling as it licked its fangs more than satisfied with the destruction.
Only to see Dracula tear space and time in front of him with his scythes.
2 rifts appeared in the air through which you could see the Briaan's other two worlds, and to the horror of the whisperer Dracula once again swung his scythes making deep gashes appear in the Briaan world.
But he wasn't satisfied he continued to slash and slash as the psionic power coursing through him that was beyond what his current body could handle vaporized his skin revealing his psionic skeleton that too soon began to vaporize into atoms.
The wolf was so happy that he even started licking dracula with its pitch-black tongue.