All Chapters of Bound to the Moon: The Exorcist's Accidental Alpha: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The sub-orbital transport craft, designated Icarus-7, tore through the stratosphere like a streak of silver fire. The curvature of the planet was visible through the reinforced cockpit glass—a breathtaking arc of blue and white that made the wars of the surface seem insignificant.Scarlett sat in the pilot’s seat, her hands hovering over the holographic controls. The Stellar Navigator was plugged directly into the ship’s nav-computer, guiding them with a precision that no modern technology could match.“ETA to the Eastern Continent: Forty minutes,” the AI announced. “Warning: Entering restricted airspace. Designation: The Silent Ocean.”Below them, the clouds broke to reveal a vast, unnatural expanse of black water. The Silent Ocean wasn't just calm; it was dead. No waves, no wind, just a mirror-like surface that seemed to absorb the light of the stars.Caleb sat in the co-pilot’s seat, strapped in by heavy magnetic harnesses. He was staring at the black water, his jaw tight. Since th

The interior of the Crimson Spire was a architectural nightmare. It was as if a Victorian cathedral had crashed into an ancient Taoist temple. Stained glass windows depicting biblical saints were covered in yellow paper talismans, and the air smelled of expensive cologne mixed with the metallic tang of alchemical mercury.Valerius led them up a spiraling staircase made of human bones fused together with red jade. He moved with a fluid, unnatural grace, his flute tapping a silent rhythm against his thigh."You are deteriorating, Subject 001," Valerius noted without looking back. "I can hear your nanobots screaming. They are trying to rewrite your neural pathways to accept the 'Chimera' state. If you don't stabilize soon, you won't be a King. You'll be a bomb."Caleb gritted his teeth, his hand gripping the railing until the bone cracked. His vision was glitching—flashes of silver binary code overlaying the real world. Every time he looked at Valerius, a red target box appeared over the

The journey to the Vermilion Volcano was less of a hike and more of a descent into hell. The air grew thick with sulfur and ash the higher they climbed, and the ground beneath their boots radiated a heat that would have blistered ordinary skin.Valerius did not accompany them. "I am a creature of the night," the vampire had drawled, sipping a glass of synthetic blood. "Volcanoes give me a complexion problem. Bring me the core, and I will open the door."Caleb walked ahead of Scarlett, his movements fluid and silent. Since the surgery, the jagged, frantic edge to his aura was gone. He no longer felt like a storm about to break; he felt like the eye of a hurricane—calm, deadly, and utterly in control."How does it feel?" Scarlett asked, stepping over a fissure that leaked blue gas. "To be... quiet?"Caleb paused, looking back at her. His golden eyes reflected the magma glow from the crater above. "It feels... empty. But a good kind of empty. Like a weapon that has finally been put back

The hundred flying swords hovered in the air, humming with a frequency that made Caleb’s nanobots vibrate in warning. To his eyes, they weren't magical weapons; they were acoustically levitated projectiles controlled by a central neural network."Threat analysis," Caleb muttered, his voice low. "Targeting systems are primitive. But the kinetic potential is high.""Don't shoot them down, Caleb," Scarlett hissed, stepping in front of him. "These are my people. Or... they were."She looked up at the figure descending from the clouds on a massive, floating gourd. It was an old man with a beard that reached his waist, wearing robes embroidered with the Seven Stars. His eyes were cold, arrogant, and filled with disdain as he looked at Caleb."I am Elder Cang," the old man boomed, his voice amplified by Qi. "Who dares intrude on the Kunlun Sanctuary? And why do you bring a... beast... to our holy ground?"He waved his hand. The swords dipped lower, the tips gleaming with cold light, aimed di

The air in the Kunlun Main Hall had ceased to be air; it was a pressurized sea of psionic energy and void-matter. The massive, blue-scaled hand of the Siren—Subject 003—gripped the edge of the fractured jade floor, her long, bio-luminescent hair swirling like a galaxy beneath the abyss.“Subject 003-Gamma: Resynchronization complete,” the AI’s voice echoed through the Navigator in Scarlett’s hand. “Psionic dampening field: Active.”As the Siren rose, her song changed. It was no longer the scream of a monster, but a high-frequency harmonic that stabilized the collapsing space around Xuan’s singularity. Valerius, recovering from his wounds, stood between Caleb and the Siren, his eyes glowing with a desperate, ancient light."The Trinity," Valerius rasped, blood dripping from his jade fangs. "Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. We were never meant to be enemies, Caleb. We were the three pillars of a temple that Xuan burned down."Xuan—or the Void-Entity wearing his face—screamed, a sound of tearing