PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Beneath a layer of translucent, bulletproof biological glass, a crystalline lattice pulsed with a brilliant, steady white light.
It was the Metabolic Engine.
There was no heavy breathing. There was no steam rising from its skin. It was generating Tier-Four Star-Code energy output with absolutely zero Caloric Debt. It was a biological perpetual motion machine.
At the feet of the synthetic god lay three of the Deep Warren’s best combat Actives, unconscious and bleeding.
Genesis slowly turned its head. It had no eyes, no mouth, and no nose—only a smooth, blank visor of dark carbon-metallic plating. But it "looked" directly at Baraka.