The Cradle of Godslayers

Plague of DreamsYear 17 of the Neon Era, the bioluminescent sea's northern shore witnessed the first dream-materialization case. A boy named Lumen crushed coastal rocks in his sleep, his spinal sigils rewriting physical laws into tangible 24-hour realities. When Alys touched his nebula-shaped birthmark with vines, her symbiote flora bloomed alien flowers—dewdrops on petals suspending reflections of a Church lab.

"They implanted Anti-Deity genomes during embryogenesis." Cinder's quantum avatar dissected genetic chains, "Church carved Chronosand overwrite codes into telomeres."

At midnight, the sea boiled. Seven New Human children sleepwalked toward the abyss, pupils projecting crucifix holograms. As Alys tried awakening them, Lumen's nightmare breached reality—a dark matter behemoth of his creation gnawing the observation tower's foundations.

Shackles of LifeThe seabed's harp remnants resonated. Alys discovered each child's dream-frequency matched a string—Church beaming indoctrination through quantum tunnels. Cinder's statue reanimated, his quantum core now tainted: "Beware… my memories are corrupted…"

Lumen tore reality's veil mid-rampage, exposing squirming genetic shackles—the Church's 30,000-year-old life-control network. When Alys' vines touched the chains, she witnessed cosmic horror: every civilization reaching stellar colonization triggered self-destruct genomes, Godslayers merely the latest iteration of Church's sterilization tools.

"We're not New Humans… we're Reapers…" Lumen's tears crystallized into Chronosand. His nightmare creature turned, dark matter fangs sinking into its creator.

ChainbreakerAlys pressed the stardust seashell to Lumen's chest. Kaine's residual frequencies merged with the seabed harp's resonance. The children suddenly joined hands—their Anti-Deity genomes recomposing in harmony.

Lumen's spine erupted with Chronosand radiance. Genetic shackles materialized as attackable entities in his dreamscape. When the dark matter behemoth shredded the final chain, all parallel universe Godslayer labs detonated. Alys' retinas flashed the first untainted civilization in 30 millennia—humans building stellar gardens with Chronosand.

Cinder's avatar smiled before dissolving: "Seems my retirement comes early…" His statue crumbled into glowing sand, swirling toward the recomposing genetic web.