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THE LAST KEEPER

Chapter 433: Lira’s vengeance · Oct 30, 2026

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401 Chapter 401: BREACHING INTO THE SKY 2026-10-30
402 Chapter 402: THE TITAN’S ARRIVAL 2026-10-30
403 Chapter 403: THE BLOODSTORM OVER THE MOUNTAIN 2026-10-30
404 Chapter 404: THE SACRIFICE 2026-10-30
405 Chapter 405: THE RACE AGAINST DEATH 2026-10-30
406 Chapter 406: RIKA’S TRUTH 2026-10-30
407 Chapter 407: THE OATH OF THE FIVE CLANS 2026-10-30
408 Chapter 408: THE COUP IN ALIKA CITY 2026-10-30
409 Chapter 409: THE SUPREME MANDRA’S WRATH 2026-10-30
410 Chapter 410: PURGING THE TRAITORS 2026-10-30
411 Chapter 411: The Broadcast 2026-10-30
412 Chapter 412: Frontier in Flames 2026-10-30
413 Chapter 413: Sagiri’s Decision 2026-10-30
414 Chapter 414: The Southern Border 2026-10-30
415 Chapter 415: Rika’s Resting Place in N’folu 2026-10-30
416 Chapter 416: LORD AZIR’S DUTY 2026-10-30
417 Chapter 417: THE RELIC OVERLOAD AND THE ENDLESS POOL 2026-10-30
418 Chapter 418: BREAKTHROW IN THE DEEP SILVER 2026-10-30
419 Chapter 419: SAGIRI LEADS THE SOUTHERN HOST 2026-10-30
420 Chapter 420: DESCENT UPON KORUVA PASS 2026-10-30
421 Chapter 421: THE WRATH OF THE LAST KEEPER 2026-10-30
422 Chapter 422: SAGIRI’S CONTINENTAL WAR 2026-10-30
423 Chapter 423: SAGIRI AND ZAIRA COMBINED STRIKE 2026-10-30
424 Chapter 424: THE ALLIANCE 2026-10-30
425 Chapter 425: THE SHADOW CORP ARRIVAL 2026-10-30
426 Chapter 426: BATTLE AND SOUL-LESS MEATGRINDER 2026-10-30
427 Chapter 427: The Grand Zorath’s Submission 2026-10-30
428 Chapter 428: Frozen Citadel 2026-10-30
429 Chapter 429: GRAND ALLIANCE ASSEMBLED 2026-10-30
430 Chapter 430: FROZEN SEA 2026-10-30
431 Chapter 431: BREACHING THE SEA-GATE 2026-10-30
432 Chapter 432: SLAVE PITS 2026-10-30
433 Chapter 433: Lira’s vengeance 2026-10-30
434 Chapter 434: DUEL OF FATHER AND SON 2026-10-30
435 Chapter 435: HEART OF PROJECT LAVA IX 2026-10-30
436 Chapter 436: THE FALL OF GRACIAL LANKA 2026-10-30
437 Chapter 437: THE QUIET AFTER THE STORM 2026-10-30
438 Chapter 438: BURDEN 2026-10-30
439 Chapter 439: THE DARK KEEPER 2026-10-30
440 Chapter 440: SPATIAL FRACTURES 2026-10-30
441 Chapter 441: THE DIAGNOSIS OF SIKUWA AND KORU 2026-10-30
442 Chapter 442: THE SOLITARY FAREWELL 2026-10-30
443 Chapter 443: KAROKAI CRATER 2026-10-30
444 Chapter 444: THE HEXAGON ABYSS 2026-10-30
445 Chapter 445: RIVER OF DEAD GENERATION 2026-10-30
446 Chapter 446: PHANTOMS OF N’FOLU 2026-10-30
447 Chapter 447: THE TOLL ON THE SHELL 2026-10-30
448 Chapter 448: VOID TEMPTATION 2026-10-30
449 Chapter 449: SOLITARY STRUGGLE 2026-10-30
450 Chapter 450: ZAIRA’S VIGILS 2026-10-30

The heavy iron door of the western research wing collapsed inward under Bukata’s shield charge, slamming into the tiled floor with a hollow, echoing ring.

A blast of stale, frigid air rushed out of the corridor ahead, thick with the sharp stench of formaldehyde, bitter botanical venoms, and burnt copper.

Kiuga stepped through the breach first, his twin short-swords raised in a low guard as his sharp eyes scanned the flickering fluorescent tubes overhead.

”Watch the ventilation grates and high piping,” Kiuga whispered, reading the tactical layout of the hallway. ”They have chemical purge nozzles built directly into the ceiling.”

Behind him walked Lira, her emerald healing robes brushing the frosted floor as her breath hitched in her throat.

Every stone, every iron pipe, and every chemical scent in this corridor was burned into the darkest corners of her memory.

This was the subterranean genetic laboratory of Project Lava IX—the cold, windowless hell where she had been strapped to steel tables as a child.

”Are you ready for this, Lira?” Kiuga asked gently, glancing back at her pale face without lowering his guard.

Lira gripped the edges of her sleeves, her hands trembling for a brief second before her emerald cellular aura flared brightly to life around her fingers.

”I have spent seven years running from this place in my nightmares,” Lira whispered, her voice hardening with iron resolve. ”I am not leaving until every cage is broken and every child is free.”

Maita scouted ahead along the polished walls, signaling clear as they approached the central operating amphitheater.

Inside the vast domed chamber, dozens of tall glass cryogenic vats bubbled with thick, glowing green nutrient fluids.

Floating inside the vats were young children. orphans stolen from southern and western border villages bound by steel restraints with dark alchemical runes burning into their skin.

Seeing their small, pale faces submerged in the toxic brew struck Lira like a physical blow, sending a surge of righteous fury burning through her blood.

Near the central dissection platform stood Chief Alchemist Varkis, dressed in bloodstained white aprons with three mutated, scalpel-armed enforcers guarding his flank.

”Look what has crawled back to the nest,” Varkis sneered, his raspy voice echoing through the chamber as he turned with a cruel smirk.

”Subject Nine,” Varkis continued, his yellowed eyes scanning Lira with clinical disgust. ”I spent five years perfecting your cellular resonance, and you betrayed us for southern savages.”

Lira stepped into the light of the braziers, her verdant aura radiating with intense, suffocating heat that made the alchemist’s skin prickle.

”You did not make me, Varkis,” Lira said coldly, her voice echoing with sovereign authority. ”You stole my childhood and called your cruelty science.”

”Insolent brat!” Varkis spat, slamming his palm onto a red console. ”Purge the vats! Incinerate the specimens!”

Red emergency strobes flashed to life as high-temperature heating coils began to glow around the children’s glass tanks.

”Bukata, shield the left tier!” Kiuga commanded, his tactical mind calculating the angles in a fraction of a heartbeat. ”Maita, take the console!”

Bukata roared a deep war cry, planting his massive iron tower shield between the child tanks and the automated incinerator vents.

The heavy steel shield absorbed the sudden blast of alchemical fire, Bukata’s boots grinding deep grooves into the tiled floor as he held the line against the flames.

”You’ll have to burn through thirty tons of northern steel first, old man!” Bukata bellowed through the smoke.

Maita vanished in a blur of speed, darting across the high pipe racks to sever the incinerator power lines with two precise daggers.

The three mutated enforcers lunged at Lira, their arms replaced with razor-sharp surgical blades dripping with paralyzing neurotoxins.

Kiuga intercepted the first two with blinding blade work, his twin short swords parrying the heavy blades and severing the hydraulic lines at their elbows with lethal efficiency.

The third enforcer leaped straight at Lira, driving its spiked blade toward her throat.

Lira didn’t step back.

Her emerald aura exploded into a radiant shockwave of pure cellular force, freezing the mutated enforcer in mid-air.

With a swift, graceful movement, Lira pressed her glowing palm directly against the enforcer’s chest plate.

Instead of pouring soothing warmth, Lira reversed her cellular polarity, sending a violent wave of biological disruption straight into the creature’s heart. ℯℯ𝑙.

The enforcer gasped, its mutated veins turning black as its artificial nervous system overloaded, collapsing onto the tiles as lifeless dead weight.

Varkis scrambled backward in terror, knocking over glass vials of corrosive acid as he reached for an emergency syringe.

Before his fingers could touch the needle, Lira was standing right in front of him, her emerald eyes glowing with terrifying, incisive clarity.

”Stay away from me!” Varkis shrieked, cowering against the steel control panel. ”I gave you your power! You owe your life to my work!”

Lira looked down at the shivering alchemist, the deep, agonizing fear that had haunted her youth dissolving into cold, righteous pity.

”My life belongs to the people I love,” Lira said softly. ”And none of them are monsters like you.”

She reached out, placing two fingers lightly against Varkis’s forehead, where his own corrupted bio-implants rested beneath the skin.

With a gentle pulse of cellular disruption, Lira overloaded the neural implant, instantly paralyzing his limbs and plunging his mind into a dreamless, permanent stupor.

Varkis slumped to the floor, completely neutralized without a drop of blood spilled.

”Console is disabled!” Maita called out, wiping sweat from his brow as the emergency strobes flickered and died.

Lira turned immediately toward the rows of bubbling cryogenic vats, tears welling in her eyes as she looked at the terrified faces of the children inside.

She walked to the lead tank, pressing both hands against the thick glass as her emerald aura poured into the fluid.

”Shatter,” Lira whispered.

The glass cracked in a clean web, bursting outward as the nutrient fluid flooded the floor.

Lira caught a shivering eight-year-old girl in her arms, wrapping her in her warm cloak as she pressed her glowing palm to the child’s forehead.

The soothing, radiant warmth of Lira’s cellular resonance flowed into the girl’s veins, dissolving the dark alchemical ink seals and healing her poisoned lungs.

The little girl coughed, opened her tear-filled brown eyes, and clung tightly to Lira’s neck with trembling hands.

”You’re safe now,” Lira whispered softly, kissing the child’s forehead as tears streamed freely down her cheeks. ”No one will ever hurt you again.”

Maita, Bukata, and the arriving Cilsi medics moved through the remaining vats, gently lifting all forty rescued children and wrapping them in thermal blankets.

Kiuga stepped beside Lira, resting a reassuring hand on her shoulder as she held the sleeping girl.

”The laboratory is purged,” Kiuga said quietly, a rare warm smile breaking across his sharp features. ”You broke their nightmare, Lira.”

Lira stood up, holding the child close to her chest as she looked around the silent, ruined operating theater.

The dark ghost of her past was gone forever; in its place remained only the fierce, unbreakable resolve of a protector.

”Let’s get them to the surface,” Lira said, her voice filled with quiet strength. ”Sagiri and Senraki will need us at the High Throne.”

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