[BIOMASS STATUS – PLANETWIDE HIVE]
Biome Coverage: 48.2%Swarm Count: 12,600+ UnitsActive Womb Fields: 8Biomass Storage: 1,600Biomass Gain Rate: +1,480/hrCore Terraforming: 17.3%Flesh Spire Status: Pierced Lower Orbit – 51,000m Altitude
[FLESH SPIRE – STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORM]
A hundred Swarmlings clung to the wind-ripped outer walls, claws sunken into the curved chitinous shell of the Spire. Bio-lightning flickered around the growing structure. Acidic mist hissed upward from ducts pumping Hive atmosphere into the sky.
And at the top—floating in a neurogel cradle—was Mo.
His body had adapted to low pressure, ionized currents, and vacuum tolerance. Carapace reinforced. Breath irrelevant.
He stared upward.
Not at the stars.
At the void between them.
"Time to step into the dark."
[HIVE MALL – ASCENSION PROTOCOL PHASE II]
Available:
Orbital Hive Array (Construction Beacon) – 3,500 Biomass
Swarm Propagation Pods x3 – 900 Biomass
Hive Cloak Web – 800 Biomass
Bio-Signal Relay: Galactic Range – 2,200 Biomass
Spire Overgrowth Upgrade (Defense + Launch Assist) – 600 Biomass
Selected:
Orbital Hive Array → -3,500
Spire Overgrowth → -600
Propagation Pods x3 → -900
Total Spent: 5,000Deficit: -3,400Current Biomass: -1,800 (Auto-Overdraft Active)Biomass Recovery Rate: +2,400/hr (Core expansion + consumption waves)
Mo's voice echoed through the Hive Nexus.
"No more hesitation. Burn biomass. Burn everything."
[SOUTHERN CONTINENT – AUTO-HARVEST FIELDS]
Three hibernating volcanoes cracked open, unleashing geysers of bioengineered burrowers that dove deep, consumed the lithosphere, and converted the crust itself into fuel.
Animals, trees, ancient human crash-sites—nothing was spared.
The Hive rose towers from every biome now.
The planet groaned in rebirth.
[BIOMASS GAIN: +7,600 over 3-hour cycle]
New Total: 5,800 Biomass
[ORBITAL DEPLOYMENT – PROPAGATION POD LAUNCH SEQUENCE]
Three pods unfurled at the top of the Spire, each large enough to carry a seed Hive Node, twenty Swarmlings, and one Alpha Controller.
Layra, now Deep-Link Host Prime, watched them.
Her bones glowed faint blue beneath her hybridized skin.
"Where do we send them first?"
Mo's voice answered from inside her skull.
"Everywhere. But one… into the dark."
One pod was aimed blindly—into the void.
Toward the source of the echo that had responded weeks ago.
[Propagation Pod Launched: 1 → Outer Orbit / Moon][Pod 2: Directed Toward Mining Station Zeta-9 (abandoned human relay)][Pod 3: UNKNOWN VECTOR – "The Listening Place"]
They vanished into the black.
The Hive was no longer planetary.
It was infecting space.
[DEEP SPACE – THE LISTENING PLACE]
It wasn't a structure.
It wasn't a ship.
It was… a wound.
Floating in folded space, lightless and anti-screaming.
The Propagation Pod entered its radius—and vanished.
For a moment, nothing.
Then a pulse.
A reply.
The Void Parasite turned its eye.
It saw Mo.
Not just as a threat.
But as a rival creation.
[ALERT: ENTITY RESPONSE RECEIVED]
Designation: Pre-Singularity Annihilation Lifeform
Known Traits: Data Collapse, Flesh Reversal, Thought Erosion
Status: Mobilizing Through Foldspace
ETA to LV-732: 6.2 days
[HIVE CITADEL – COUNCIL OF ELDERS: DEAD AND REANIMATED]
Mo gathered his elite—003, 007, 008, Layra, and five hybridized generals.
Each had consumed human, Predator, or Xenomorph knowledge.
Their minds merged in the Hive Council Link—a ritual only used in the deepest genetic shifts.
Layra broke the silence.
"You felt it, didn't you?"
"The parasite. It's not alive. It's… anti-life."
003 hissed.
"We can't consume what doesn't bleed."
Mo's voice cut through their minds.
"Then we evolve further."
"We evolve beyond blood."
He turned to the Hive Mall and opened a new page.
The Extinction-Class Menu.
[HIVE MALL – EXTINCTION CLASS: UNLOCKED]
Time-Displacement Nerve Strand – 9,000 Biomass
Thought-Husked Spire (Ego Isolation Field) – 4,800 Biomass
Living Singularity Core (Planetbreaker Weapon) – 12,000 Biomass
Anti-Entropy Flesh Loop (Hive Mind Survival Engine) – 7,500 Biomass
Void-Hunting Swarmling Variant (Mindless, Silence-Powered) – 180 Biomass/unit
Mo selected two:
Anti-Entropy Flesh Loop → -7,500Void-Hunting Swarmling x20 → -3,600
Remaining Biomass: -5,300 (Emergency Overconsumption Mode Active)New Gain Rate: +2,800/hr
[SKY SHATTERS – VOID PARASITE ARRIVAL]
The stars blinked.
One by one.
As if something was passing in front of them.
Then a scream—inaudible to the ear, but tearing through the Hive.
Layra fell to her knees.
003 let out a shriek, vomiting acid from its brain core.
"It's HERE—"
Above, the Spire turned black.
Frozen black.
It stopped growing.
Then cracked.
Mo's voice thundered from below.
"HOLD."
"WE ARE NOT DONE."
He rose from the planet's crust itself.
No longer tethered to shape.
Mo had become the Hive.
He extended his claws toward the rift.
"Come and see."
"Let extinction challenge evolution."
[PLANETARY STATUS REPORT]
Biome Coverage: 59.2%Core Terraforming: 21.8%Flesh Spire: Stalled (Void Interference) at 83,000mBiomass Reserve: -5,300Emergency Consumption Rate: +3,200/hrActive Void-Hunter Units: 20Anti-Entropy Loop InstalledAscension Protocol: 57%
Mo's Hive now stood against something not made of matter, not built to be killed.
But Mo had never been made to obey rules.
And as the Rift opened wide—spilling reversed light into the world—Mo grinned from within the sky.
"You think you erase."
"I am what grows after the end."
[CURRENT STATS – HIVE STATUS]
Biome Coverage: 59.2%Core Terraforming: 21.8%Flesh Spire Height: 83,000m (Stalled)Swarm Count: ~15,000+Biomass: -5,300Biomass Gain: +3,200/hr(Emergency Core Harvesting Mode active)Ascension Protocol: 57%Void Parasite Arrival: Active – Initial Contact Zone Detected in Upper Orbit
[FLESH CITADEL – INNER NEXUS CORE]
The Hive screamed.
Not in pain.
But in awareness.
The Spire above had frozen in mid-growth, its organic tunnels flash-frozen by a lightless cold. No ice. No frost. Just absence. A tear in biological logic.
Inside the Nexus, Mo knelt within the Anti-Entropy Loop, surrounded by pulsing memory glands and AI-digestive cores cannibalized from the Predator dreadnought.
He was still… and then he opened his eyes.
Eyes that now contained the memory of worlds he had never seen. Predator ruins. Xenomorph extinction chains. Human cataclysms.
And something beyond.
The void.
The hunger.
[VOICE OF THE VOID – TRANSMISSION BEGINS]
It spoke.
But not in words.
It infected the Hive Link, pouring itself into the neural pathways like black fire.
A distortion.
❝𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝙸𝚂 𝙽𝙾 𝙲𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁. 𝙽𝙾 𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴. 𝙽𝙾 𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝚃𝚈.❞❝𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙰𝙸𝙻 𝙸𝚂 𝙰 𝙻𝙸𝙴.❞❝𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙼𝙴𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙸𝚂 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽.❞❝𝙲𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙴.❞
The walls of the Nexus bent inward. Memory organs burst. Several hundred Swarmlings screamed and went still, their minds eaten by the concept of non-being.
Mo rose from the Loop, claws burning with black flame, flickering in and out of biological existence.
"You tried to erase me," he said.
"But I am written in the marrow of worlds."
[MO'S COUNTERSTRIKE – EXTINCTION CLASS WAKES]
The Void-Hunter Swarmlings emerged from sub-crust tunnels, their bodies forged in non-euclidean angles, shrieking with silence. They were mindless. Loveless. Pure function.
He sent all 20 toward the Rift.
Command:"Touch it. Learn it. Die screaming—so I may be born greater."
The first made contact.
It simply ceased.
The second—half-erased.
The third—touched the parasite's edge…
…And spoke back.
"It thinks in layers. It folds meaning. It devours identity to nullify threat."
Mo's Hive processed the death.
New Trait Unlocked: Voidskin Sheath (Worm-Class Only)
Units created with this trait will temporarily phase out of reality when near non-life fields.
He issued a new command.
"Construct new class. Give them pain. Give them self."
[HIVE MALL – NEW CREATION UNLOCKED]
CLASS: Reality-Piercer Unit: Abyssal Wyrm
Cost: 1,200 Biomass
Stats: Immune to light, resistant to void decay
Attacks: Thought-Spike, Bone Collapse Roar
Quantity: 1 (per batch)
Constructed: 2 Abyssal Wyrms → -2,400 BiomassRemaining: -7,700Gain Rate: +3,800/hr (Core acceleration triggered)
The Abyssal Wyrms cracked from their flesh-eggs in silence.As long as buses, eyeless, plated in swirling flesh-glass. They didn't walk—they slid through the Hive like thoughts made matter.
They roared once.
The Hive heard.
And the Rift shuddered.
[VOID PARASITE – PHASE 1 ENGAGEMENT]
The Rift opened wider, revealing its true form—
Not a creature.
A concept made into impact.
Floating above the Spire, it looked like a wound in the sky—a ring of stars circling nothing, devouring sunlight as it spun.
And from it descended Its limbs—long trails of anti-light, reaching for the Hive.
Layra stood atop the Spire now, arms stretched, eyes blank with Hive-vision.
"It's testing us."
"It wants to know if we're a disease… or a cure."
Mo appeared beside her, body lit with planetary flame.
"Then let it bleed."
[THE BATTLE FOR EXISTENCE]
The Abyssal Wyrms launched upward, spiraling into orbit, carving a path through the anti-light.
They screamed as they touched the parasite—but didn't die.
They fractured into copies, burning across different timelines of possibility.
And they bit down on the limbs of the void.
The sky bled for the first time in history.
Void Parasite Damage: 4%Hive Units Lost: 600+ (mental implosion)Swarmling Count: 15,200+New Biomass Recovered: +3,200
Mo howled.
The Hive howled with him.
This was not survival anymore.
This was conquest of meaning itself.
[PLANETARY ASCENSION PROTOCOL: 72%]
Core Terraforming: 28.1%Biomass Gain: +4,000/hrSpire Height: 93,000mNew Construction Unlocked: Hive Crown (Satellite-Class Seat of the King)
Mo opened the final interface.
"I am not here to be tested."
"I am here to be worshipped."