Chapter 13 - THE AWAKENING OF THE HYDRA KINGâWhen the Mother died... the human vanished completely.âA silent wave of grief rippled through the earth.

As the Mother Cobra took her final breath, something broke inside Alex. The last fragile thread of his human soul snapped. Tears of black venom spilled from his glowing yellow eyes, burning deep grooves into his face.
The air pressure inside the subterranean complex plummeted. The temperature dropped to freezing.
Alex raised his head to the sky and let out a sound that was no longer human, nor animalâit was an ancient, primal roar that rattled the tectonic plates beneath Sector Zero.
From the deepest trenches of the earth, millions of subterranean serpentsâcreatures that had slept undisturbed for millenniaâbegan to surface. The soil outside the facility boiled over as gargantuan, ancient snakes, some as thick as subway trains, breached the surface, crushing the perimeter walls and tearing down the 50-foot electric fence like cardboard.
Inside the bunker, Alexâs body began to warp and expand. Black, metallic armor erupted from his spine, forming skeletal wings made of solid bone and chitinous scales. His hands grew long, razor-sharp talons infused with concentrated neurotoxin.
Vance Jr. backed away in sheer horror, dropping his sidearm. âWhat... what are you?â
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Alex hovered above the ground, his voice vibrating through the minds of everyone within a ten-mile radius:
âI AM THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOUR GREED.â