The Iron Crucible had sparked more than an industrial revolution; it catalyzed mutation, innovation, and deviation. As if responding to Rael's ambitions, the Dominion System unveiled a new protocol—one that transcended steel and circuitry.
> [Variant Crucible Activated: Bio-Tyrant Evolution Forge] [Flesh-Mechanical Hybrid Units Enabled] [Spawning Hive-Reactors: Operational]
The skies above Sub-Realm Delta-09 split as living ships bloomed from crucible spires. These were not constructed. They were grown.
Azura stood at the edge of the Bio-Tyrant Foundry as living veins pulsed through growth-tanks lined with crystalline spires. Flesh-metals, grown from the essence of fallen gods and devoured abyssals, twisted into armored abominations with breathing spines.
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Crucible Variant: Bio-Tyrant Evolution Forge
Requires: Sovereign Flesh Core + Genetic Sourcecodes + Tech Enzyme Injectors
Unlocks: Living Warforms, Biomechanical Titans, Hive-Mind Commanders
Evolution Path is influenced by DNA of enemies defeated (dynamic unit creation)
Base Unit: Tyrant Larva
Grows by feeding on bio-matter and tech fragments
Evolution:
Tyrant Larva → Gore Golem
→ Hivebound Reaver
→ Biotitan Juggernaut
→ Sovereign Flesh Colossus (SSS-tier)
Unique Hero: Vorraxa the Gene-Devourer
Class: Hive Sovereign / Genetic Assimilator
Skills:
[Consume and Adapt]: Absorbs enemy skills into the genetic database
[Flesh Crucible]: Grows units in real time during battle
[Dominion Plague]: Infects enemy units to turn them into controllable hybrids
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Meanwhile, across the Iron Bastion's forward colony planets, Rael launched his first large-scale Crucible March.
Over a dozen newly-formed Crucible Legions stood at the gates of a frontier Star-Realm: Ashveil Prime, a brutal realm of volcanic biomes, rogue cultivators, and rebel machines.
> [Objective: Conquer Ashveil Prime in under 72 system hours] [All units eligible for S-tier Evolution Trials upon successful world purge]
Rael raised the Dominion Banner high atop the Command Fortress, his voice amplified through ten thousand Nexus transmitters.
"Crucible-born! Bio-Forged! Dominion Elite! This is your first war—but not your last. No realm will stand unclaimed. Today, we burn rebellion into order. Forward—FOR THE DOMINION!"
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The sky darkened as fleets of living ships flanked mecha-armadas.
Quantum pulses surged alongside psychic shockwaves.
As the battle commenced, Rael's Dominion officially became what the Multiverse would come to fear most:
A sovereign who forged not just empires—but evolution itself.