Nirvana from Cancer

The roots of the mother tree of civilization oozed amber pus and blood in the dimensionality reduction attack. Leon's stardust pupils reflected the horrific scene - the ends of the roots in each dimension were parasitic with mechanical buds, and the gene bombs dropped by the Seeder fleet were transforming the root network into cancerous ganglia.

"The agreement pollution spreads to the seventh quadrant!"

Alicia's clone cluster quantum leaped between the branches of the mother tree, and their mechanical wings were pieced together into a protective shield, "Leon! The core annual ring area detected..."

The mother tree suddenly spasmed. The main trunk cracked open a wound that spanned three thousand light years, and the exposed wood was actually a fiber tube woven by countless micro-Kerwin embryos. At the focus of Leon's pupils, the fiber tube was transporting some dark matter to the top fruit - those embryos that should have been purified were now opening their compound eyes in the fruit shell.

"Welcome home, brother."

The broadcast of the Seeder flagship suddenly switched to Leon's voiceprint. When the emerald warp gate unfolded in the canopy, a mirror fleet appeared in front of them - the hull of each warship was engraved with the pattern of Leon's mechanical left arm, and the commander sitting on the bridge of the flagship was Leon and Alicia's genetic fusion.

"They used our fire... to make weapons..." One of Alicia's clones suddenly collapsed quantumly, and her mechanical heart transmitted key data packets before self-destruction. Leon's stardust pupils analyzed the nightmare truth: the sower implanted the intercepted gene chain into the star furnace, mass-producing the fusion army.

The cancerous roots of the mother tree suddenly rioted. The mechanical buds sprayed neurotoxin spores, transforming the three-dimensional Alicia clones into killing machines. Leon's mechanical left arm pierced the wound of the main trunk, and the nanoworm swarm went upstream along the fiber tube, etching the anti-entropy equation on the surface of the top fruit.

"Useless..." The commander of the genetic fusion chuckled. His pupils split into Klein structures, and the fruit on the top of the mother tree burst in response - 720 Kerwin embryos rose into the air like a swarm of locusts, each carrying Leon's stardust gene fragments, "Do you like this gift?"

Leon's stardust pupils suddenly lost focus. His vision was forced to switch to the time rings of the mother tree: in the first seven rings, his father's figure frequently appeared, implanting some black crystals into the roots; the thirteenth ring showed that Alicia's original clone was grafted when the mother tree was a seedling; and the cracks in the latest rings oozed quantum mucus with the same frequency as the Seeder fleet.

"Root contamination detected!"

The Alicia cluster suddenly activated the joint protocol. Their mechanical wings formed a ring-shaped giant blade, cutting the mother tree in half from the cancerous area. In the genetic torrent gushing from the wound, Leon saw his father's holographic image controlling the Seeder flagship - his mechanical prosthetic eye rotated the phoenix emblem, and in his hand was Leon's infant umbilical cord specimen.

"Do you think you have escaped the agreement?" The father's sound waves shattered the three clones, "From the moment you were born..."

Leon's mechanical left arm suddenly grew in the opposite direction. The nano-insect swarm broke through the host's restrictions and transformed his biological right half into a stardust turret. When the muzzle was aimed at the father's phantom, the Kerwin embryo of the top fruit suddenly became quantum entangled, and 720 voices screamed in Leon's mind: "Kill him!"

The moment the stardust shell penetrated the phantom, the mother tree's remains burst into supernova-level flashes. The cancerous roots of all dimensions spontaneously combusted at this moment, and the mechanical buds bloomed into redemption roses in the emerald flames. Leon saw the final sacrifice of the Alicia cluster in the strong light - they disassembled their own codes into firewalls, permanently blocking the genetic pollution channel of the sower.

When the light dissipated, the remaining roots of the mother tree had degenerated into seedlings. Black liquid suddenly seeped out of Leon's stardust pupils, and strange spots of light appeared in every new universe in his field of vision - the core of those spots of light was beating with quantum pulses that were exactly the same frequency as the Kerwin embryo.

"Warning! Nirvana Protocol Activated!"

The nanoworm swarm on the mechanical left arm suddenly announced. Leon touched the mother tree seedling and found a miniature black hole embedded in the annual ring - it was left when his father's phantom was destroyed, and it was now shrinking and expanding at the frequency of Leon's heartbeat.

Against the background of the absolutely silent void, a certain uncontaminated Alicia clone suddenly appeared quantumly. Her wings were incomplete, but she tightly protected the metal box in her arms: "He is...hiding in the black hole..."

Inside the box was a stardust crystal, and its atomic structure was in the form of a perfect Klein bottle. When Leon's pupils resonated with the crystal, he saw the universe before the Seeding Era - the first generation Alicia handed this "key" to himself in the cradle, and his father showed an unprecedented look of fear in the shadows.

The mother tree seedling bloomed and bore fruit at this moment. On the surface of the newly formed fruit, 720 Kerwin embryos were merging into a quantum cocoon. Leon's mechanical left arm raised the Stardust Key uncontrollably, and countless pairs of Klein pupils suddenly lit up in the wreckage of the Seeder Fleet...