✨CHAPTER FORTY-ONE — EXECUTOR TRUE FORM: THE UNSEALING✨
The Citadel's rings spun faster—faster—until they blurred into six burning halos above the city.
The Executor floated upward, crimson light pouring from every segment of its armor.
Lines of energy split across its body like cracks in volcanic stone.
Maya's voice was tight, controlled.
"Aiden… that wasn't its real power. What we fought was the sealed version."
Dara swallowed.
"Wait—so that was the tutorial boss?"
Aiden didn't reply.
His aura flared in a slow, bright expansion—calm, focused, no hesitation.
He knew.
This next form could kill him.
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THE UNSEALING
The Executor extended both arms.
The Citadel's halos aligned—
A burst of red energy linked them together—
And suddenly gravity inverted in a hundred-meter radius.
Rubble lifted. Crates floated. Shattered beams hovered like frozen shrapnel.
Then—
CRACK.
The Executor's armor split open down the middle.
Inside wasn't machinery.
It was… something else.
A mass of black crystalline muscle, pulsing with red liquid energy.
Its torso expanded. Its limbs elongated.
Its head unfolded into a multi-layered crown of glowing symbols.
The voice that came out was no longer calm.
It was layered. Synthetic. And ancient.
"FULL OMEGA-MODE ENGAGED."
"TARGET: THE VESSEL."
Dara pointed, horrified.
"That is NOT a robot. That is not even robot-adjacent. That is—bro—what IS THAT?!"
Maya's eyes flickered silver as she scanned it.
"It's the Executor's primordial core… raw Dominion bio-construct fused with quantum armor. This is its 'no-restrictions' form."
She turned to Aiden.
"It will kill you if we slip even once."
Aiden tightened his fists.
"Then we don't slip."
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THE EXECUTOR MOVES
There was no sound.
One moment it floated in the center of the ring-light…
The next—
It was behind Aiden.
BOOM
Aiden blocked just in time—but the force sent him flying backward so fast he broke through a concrete tower.
Maya threw a silver tether—
"Hold on—!"
She pulled him mid-flight, redirecting him so he landed on his feet instead of splattering against a wall.
Aiden wiped blood from his cheek.
"Fast—"
"Predictive motion analysis: complete."
The Executor's voice came from everywhere at once.
"Your reaction time is insufficient."
It vanished again—
Reappeared above Maya—
Dara screamed—
"MAYA MOVE—!!"
She ducked— barely—
The Executor's strike carved a trench fifty meters long through the plaza.
Aiden's eyes sharpened.
It was targeting her now.
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THE TRIO REACT
"Maya! Link—NOW!" Aiden shouted.
She grabbed his arm.
Silver shot up his veins like lightning.
Their minds connected again—cleaner than before.
"Dara!" Maya yelled. "Break its line-of-sight!"
Dara immediately hurled debris, pipes, metal plates—anything he could grab—straight at the Executor's head.
It didn't flinch.
But—
It looked.
And that half-second was all Aiden needed.
"Left flank—go!" Maya commanded.
Aiden blurred—
A streak of gold—
Slammed a punch into the Executor's exposed joint—
CLANG—!!
A crack formed across the crystal muscle.
Dara's jaw dropped. "YES—YES—WE CAN BREAK IT!"
The Executor's head snapped toward Aiden.
"Adapting counter-measure."
Red symbols spun across its crown—
And suddenly Aiden felt his own aura being suppressed.
Like invisible hands squeezing his power down.
He gasped.
"Maya—! It's damping the Vessel output!"
Maya gritted her teeth and poured more silver energy into him.
"Not if I override it!"
Their merged energies surged—
Aiden's aura burst back to full power—
And he smashed another blow into the Executor's side.
This time the crack deepened.
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THE EXECUTOR UNLEASHES ITS SIGNATURE MOVE
The Executor floated upward, arms spreading.
The Citadel's six halos shifted formation—
Creating a perfect sphere of rotating runes around it.
Maya's face went pale.
"Oh no— Aiden— that's an Omega-Class sigil matrix!"
Dara raised his hands. "Translation! Translation please!"
"It's a city-level attack!"
The Executor's chest began to glow, drawing power from the runes.
A deep hum spread across the entire sector…
Aiden stepped forward.
"We stop it."
Maya shook her head sharply.
"We can't stop that attack directly! It's not energy— it's space distortion!"
Dara pointed at the halos.
"So what do we do?!"
Maya swallowed hard.
"Aiden… you have one option."
She placed her hand on his back— silver threads tightening.
Almost vibrating from the strain.
"You use me as a stabilizer. I'll anchor your Vessel so the distortion won't tear your body apart."
Aiden nodded once.
"And Dara?"
Dara blinked.
"Yeah—what do I do?!"
Aiden grabbed his shoulder.
"You keep me conscious."
Dara froze.
Then nodded.
"Bet. I'll scream motivation into your soul."
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AIDEN CHARGES THE EXECUTOR
The sigil sphere expanded—
The distortion reaching critical density—
Aiden's wings flared.
Golden-white light wrapped around him, merging with Maya's silver threads.
Dara yelled behind him:
"GO PUNCH GOD-MONSTER GOOGLE-GLASS IN THE FACE!"
Aiden sprinted—
The ground cracking—
The Executor released the distortion—
The world bent—
Aiden roared—
"CELESTIAL DRIVE—OVERRIDE—FULL RELEASE!"
Gold and silver collided with crimson distortion—
And the entire battlefield detonated in a flash of blinding white.