EPISODE 40 — The Blood of the Ancients
🌒 EPISODE 40 — The Blood of the Ancients
Subtitle: "When the seeds bleed, the gods awaken."
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🎬 SCENE 1 — In the Arena
Kiralypse, wounded but in a trance, completes his transformation into a hybrid sprouted form.
His torso opens in a spiral of spores and cables.
Two additional arms form.
Plant wings covered with holographic glyphs unfold.
🗣️ Kiralypse (split voice):
> "It is no longer me who fights... but all my sacrificed lineages."
He raises his arms → a shower of black eclipsium fragments.
Technique: "The Reverse Harvest"
Gravity: BLACK YELLOW STRIPED
Kairos activates an ancient technique that has not been taught for 300 years:
🗡️ "Way of the Double Eclipse"
His eyes glow blue and orange.
His body freezes for a moment: a perfect pause.
Then he lunges with three temporally offset strikes, each arriving 0.3 seconds after the other like a sharp delay.
Kiralypse attempts a root defence, but only parries the first strike. The next two hit him in the side.
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🎥 SCENE 2 — Bleachers, audience side
👤 Master Barun (former member of the Solstice clan):
> "This technique... no one has seen it since the Alpha-Kainos War."
👤 Hooded gambler (transmitting information remotely via a cybernetic eye):
> "Put everything on Kairos. If he loses, I'll cut off my hand."
Children from the Young Chosen programme watch in silence, trembling.
One of them whispers:
> "They... they could really die there, couldn't they?"
👤 Blind old woman (in the stands):
> "This tournament is no longer a celebration... it's a message to the forgotten worlds."
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⚔️ SCENE 3 — Strategic hand-to-hand combat
💢 Kiralypse spins, deploying a fusion technique:
🧪 "Breath of the Furious Mycelium"
He spits out 48 spore clusters, each tracing a curved motion.
Gravity: ELECTRIC GREEN
Kairos crouches, arms raised horizontally, concentrates → activates:
🔥 "Ring of Ash"
A circular wave breaks 35 spores. The others explode against his arms.
Dialogue in the middle of the action:
🗣️ Kairos: "You've improved... too bad it was the void that taught you."
🗣️ Kiralypse: "And you... have you improved without me?"
Kairos blinks → he triggers "Astral Breaker's Step"
Moves in 3 directions simultaneously (illusion and real speed)
Breaks Kiralypse's left shoulder.
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👁️ SCENE 4 — Spectator Tension (focus)
A floating camera films Kairos, bloodied but standing.
👤 VR presenter:
> "This is reality. These are no longer fictional heroes... They are gods fallen into flesh."
👤 A military general in the upper stands:
> "If Kiralypse wins, we will no longer be able to contain the South."
👤 Master Azogbi Bélier (projection from Necoviome):
> "Prepare the heir. The Claw of Light must be activated if Kairos falls."
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🔥 SCENE 5 — Final sequences
💥 Kiralypse channels "Heart of the Alpha Root "
Gravity: OPACQUE PURPLE + RED VEINS
He partially merges with the ground, creating a plant golem mirroring Kairos.
Kairos deactivates all his techniques and puts away his sword.
🗣️ Kairos:
> "Then let's finish this like men... Not like monsters."
He unleashes one last hybrid form:
🛡️ "Armour of the Last Sky"
A translucent, almost silent metallic aura envelops him.
Each movement leaves behind a light blue trail.
They strike each other at the same time.
💢 Kiralypse's fist to the side.
💥 Kairos' knee strike to the throat.
💢 Kiralypse's right hook, dodged by rotation.
⚔️ Kairos' flat blade strike: Kiralypse's mask shatters.
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🧨 End of episode
Kiralypse falls to his knees. His chest is torn open. He whispers, broken but alive:
🗣️ Kiralypse:
> "You defeated me... without hating me."
Kairos turns to the audience, doesn't even raise his arms, looks up at the sky. A shower of digital petals falls into the arena.
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📡 Post-credits
A screen opens. In a secret room at Kaïnos School, a console displays:
> "Next fighter: Eclipse-777 vs Kira"
👁️ A figure tapping the screen says:
> "Now... let the memory bleed."