SSS-Tier Extraction: From Outcast to Overgod!

Chapter 257: The Birth of the Genesis Lord



The Rite Chamber was deathly quiet. The only sound was the loud, frantic beeping of the final impact warning. But inside the room, time seemed to have stopped.

The reborn Ryan sat on the edge of the medical table, looking at his hands as if they were interesting new toys. Emma and Zara peeked over their console, their scientific minds struggling to catch up with what they were seeing.

"Okay," Zara whispered, her voice a little shaky. She grabbed a medical scanner and pointed it at Ryan. "Let's get some readings. Let's see what we're dealing with here."

She looked down at the scanner's screen. It was supposed to show things like heart rate, brain activity, and energy levels. Instead, the screen was blank except for a single, blinking symbol right in the middle: a question mark.

Zara stared at it. She shook the scanner. The question mark kept blinking.

"That's not very helpful," she muttered, feeling a strange mix of terror and professional annoyance. It was like asking the universe's biggest question and getting a shrug in reply.

Emma, meanwhile, had her eyes closed. She was trying to use her special ability, her power to see the future. Normally, when she looked at a person, she saw paths, choices, and possible futures branching out like a tree. But when she looked at Ryan now, she saw… nothing. And everything.

It was like staring directly into the sun. There was no path, no tree, just a single, impossibly bright, warm light. It wasn't a future she could predict; it was a future he was going to write.

The alarms on the ship continued to scream their heads off, but in the chamber, a strange sense of calm was spreading out from Ryan. The air itself felt different. It was still and quiet, but it was humming with a deep, controlled power.

Before, Ryan's power had felt like a storm he was trying to control. It was wild and forceful. He would look at reality and say, "You, do this!" and reality would grunt and complain but eventually do what he said. He was a shaper, someone who bent the rules.

Now, it was different. He didn't feel like a storm anymore. He felt like the calm, quiet sky after the storm has passed. He wasn't bending the rules. He was the rules. He didn't need to shout at reality anymore; he could just whisper, and reality would listen, not because it was scared, but because his voice was a part of its own nature.

He stood up from the table. His movements were smooth and graceful, with no wasted effort. He wasn't the same man who had walked into this room.

At that moment, a new voice spoke, not in the room, but over the ship's communication system. It was Oracle, the ship's super-smart AI. But its voice, usually so calm and logical, was different. It was slow, and it sounded… amazed. It sounded like a calculator that had just seen a beautiful sunset for the first time.

"Analysis… complete," Oracle said, its voice filled with a strange, new wonder. "The energy signature of the subject designated 'Ryan' has fundamentally changed."

There was a pause, as if the giant AI was trying to find the right words.

"Previous classification… 'God Shaper'… is now… insufficient."

Another long pause. The beeping of the alarms seemed to get louder, counting down the last seconds of their lives.

"Re-evaluating… Re-evaluating… New classification found," Oracle said, its voice now firm, as if it had discovered a great and powerful truth. "New classification: Genesis Lord."

The title hung in the air, feeling heavy and right.

Ryan paid no attention to the AI or its new name for him. He ignored the screaming alarms. He ignored Emma and Zara. His eyes, full of ancient stars, had found the only person in the universe he was looking for.

Scarlett.

She was standing there, leaning on Zara for support, her body weak but her spirit blazing. She was still messy from the ordeal, her face smudged, her hair a wreck. And to him, she was the most beautiful thing in all of creation.

He took a step toward her. Then another. He moved with a quiet, certain grace, his gaze never leaving hers.

He stopped right in front of her. For a heartbeat, they just looked at each other. He saw the fierce warrior who had gone into the darkness for him. He saw the woman who had rebuilt his soul from scraps of memory and love. He saw his anchor, his partner, his home.

He didn't speak. Words were too small for this moment.

Instead, he slowly raised his hand and gently, so gently, touched her cheek.

The moment his fingers touched her skin, Scarlett gasped. It wasn't just a physical touch. It was a universe of feeling pouring into her in a single, silent wave.

She felt his gratitude. It was a feeling as deep and wide as an ocean, a silent thank you that was more powerful than any words could ever be.

She felt his love. It was a fire that had been reborn, warmer and steadier than before. It was a deep, quiet certainty that said, we are one, and we are home.

She felt the unbreakable bond they now shared, a perfect, humming connection that was now a permanent part of both of them.

In that single, simple touch, he told her everything. He told her that he was back. That she had saved him. That he loved her. That it had all been worth it.

Tears, hot and happy, welled up in her eyes and streamed down her cheeks, washing away the grime and the fear. He was back. Her Ryan was back.

But the universe, it seemed, didn't care much for touching romantic moments.

The ship's warning system, which had been counting down, screamed its final, desperate alert. The computerized voice was no longer calm; it was practically shouting.

WARNING. IMPACT IMMINENT. HULL BREACH IN…

TWO…

On the bridge, Seraphina and the others braced themselves, their eyes squeezed shut.

ONE…

In the Rite Chamber, Ryan finally looked away from Scarlett, his expression calm. He turned his head, his starry gaze seeming to pierce right through the ship's metal walls, looking out into the void at the wave of pure law that was about to erase them all.

The end had arrived

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