Epoch of Apokoliptic Genetica

Inquisitor Moira Keras stared sternly at the Outpost Ithica from the Helljet, her grey eyes scanning the ruins of the city.

She was decked in black armoured leather suit with a transparent compact glass Mask, sharp black boots and a heavy looking pistol tied to her belt.

Her dark black hair wrapped in prim, near bun bore her Inquisitorial Rosette.

Her Biomarker Bracer were inscribed with the words "Aeterna".

Beside her where two younger uniformed Soldiers- a girl and a boy- having the same dark black hair as her while possessing Amber Eyes instead.

The Girl was Kayla Solaris and the boy Haytham Solaris- both celebrated as the new next generation Sol Saints.

Opposite to her was A rough and rugged looking bearded man with Amber Eyes, his hair was Brown instead, he wore a more regal looking suit of steel knight armour with a long sword attached to his backstrap.

He was Hadric Solaris, Lord of Astra's 200 Upper Levels. A noble sworn to military service, born to serve the people of Astra to the bitter End.

He gazed on at Ithica Outpost with a stoic look.

"Hadric- As you are one of the Lords of Astra- I want you to forbid Kane from meeting Miss Cronet - this was a step too far", Inquisitor Moira Keras spoke with a stern voice.

"I'd rather you send him to the Shadow Blades Camp Moira, he's 18 now, As a Solaris he must serve the people not behave like a Fop! He lied to us for money again and now has left the Stronghold to this dangerous Outpost!", Hadric replied to his Consort with a wry smile.

"I agree Mother, Please allow elder brother to join us, A bit of strict discipline would do him good", the handsome band chiselled young man- Haytham immediately offered.

"You could also send him to the Astra Temple and join the Silent Choir- He has to strictly reflect on his behaviour! I will ensure he never speaks to Ji- sorry... That insufferable woman ever! Since he is now 18 and in the last year of Academia, by legal code he must join one of the Departments"

"Father controls the Praetorian Departments while the Temple comes under your purview"

" I urge you to send him here first as as he can no longer avoid legal escapades! He had no choice but to join !", The dark haired beauty, a younger carbon copy version of Moira except for her eyes, offered an alternative solution but equally strict.

"We will consider all options when we evaluate Kane's latest actions, My children you do me proud- I wish your Older Brother will stop and realize his folly! This is not a world he ignore forever!", Inquisitor Moira sighed and held the hands of her children by her side.

She looked truly exhausted, Kane had truly disappointed them this time.

Lord Hadric's expression softened at his two children, honestly he wanted Kane to grow up out of his own insecurities- he had no expectations from him apart from doing his duty as a Solaris.

He had his own suspicions about Jiah's intentions towards Kane and always felt something dark hiding about her.

Inquisitor Moira always felt a strange sense of disgust towards Jiah, she too had her suspicions and had always tried to summon her for an Interrogation but the Cronet family was a thorn on her side...

The Cronet family had gotten some of the Praetorian Houses to resist against House Solaris's apparent actions of trying to kill their Heir.

And the Houses intervened and told Moira to act more diplomatically.

This time... enough was enough, She would go to her mentor, Lord Inquisitor Kenway to bring the Houses to heel and Investivate the Cronet Family- to the harshest standard.

She had finally gathered some evidence, but not enough to fully condemn the Cronets but enough to convince her Mentor.

The whole situation was just too uncertain rather than emberassing, they were afraid for Kane.

If they were allowed to use their Cultivation to deal with the Cronets... The Cronets would be exterminated in the next hour.

"Lord! Lord Hadric Sir!", the pilot of the Helljet opened the Intercom and Hadric glanced at him.

"We have a problem, the location is destroyed and too exposed, moreover there was a Red Typhoon Category Storm exactly here two days ago...", as the pilot spoke, the family stood up collectively in shock.

"What!?",Moira shouted

"The Red Typhoon occured moment young master Kane's Biomarker was reset"

" Check Again!", Hadric scowled.

"Sir, we've found the last Traces of Miss Jiah's last known location, it's not far off...", The Pilot immediately replied.

"Go! Go there now!", Hadric Ordered.

"I WILL KILL THAT BITCH!", Moira's killing intent condensed in her eyes fiercely.

Haytham and Kayla looked equally grim.

"The building's burned No traces of Life...",the Pilot replied.

"Contact the Ithica Outpost directly! They must have some information!", Hadric immediately ordered the next course of action.

"Yes Sir...", the pilot immediately complied.

A moment later, he spoke," Sir Ithica Outpost has a report - there were survivors on the night of the red Typhoon who reached the Outpost on foot during the storm"

"Take us there immediately!"

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In a hospital room within the Outpost, a silver haired teen rushed in.

"Sister! Oh thank the Goddess you are alive! I thought I was too late!", Johan Silvervale cried as he saw his Sister staring empty at the window only to smile weakly at his voice.

Johan Silvervale was regressor - he had experienced an absolutely horrible timeline where he had lost his family members one by one because he had no strength and he lost his beloved in his arms during the fall of Astra.

He watched the end and was filled with incredible hatred towards all of his enemies - they destroyed everything he cared about - Everything!

In the end when he was about to die, he saw a faint figure of light slice him with a blade- and the next day he woke up a day before his Sister's death.

He rushed to Outpost Ithica to find a way to save her - he remembered being called to collect her frozen corpse from the morgue...

He was obsessed with her condition and investigated the way she died,

Selena had been brutally tortured because of an idiot fop, but she somehow escaped her captors... She was on the run from the infected and had been caught in a Red Typhoon Storm, a stray Mutated Revenant stinger had stabbed her in the abdomen when she was just about to reach the Outpost Tower and to add cherry on the top, she was struck by lightning which pushed her corpse into the threshold.

Actually, she could have been saved... Years later in that timeline, he had found an interesting Cryogenics experimental log.

A Mutated Revenant Venom had been used along with lighting to create a viable cryogenic fluid and then the body had to be frozen in the freezer within 12 hours.

All that was required was a Golden Orb fruit extract and a supercharged Light Elemental Energy Infusion for revivification.

He saw his beloved personally conduct the experiment and succeed! He was filled with immense regret for the rest of his life.

Now after his regression, the future seemed to have changed?

His Sister was alive!

It meant a lot deviations had come?

Who knows- who cares- his precious elder Sister had not died because of that hateful Fop!

"Sister, Let me give you a check up first! I've improved, I am improving still and won't ever slack off", He hurriedly held her hand and checked her pulse as she weakly chuckled.

"Heh, Johan you little shit... Seeing you so concerned, it seems you've really changed...", She smiled gently at him but the sorrow and emptiness in her eyes were clearly evident.

"You have case of Rot gas in your lungs, you just need some aerosol cleansers and rest", He spoke with relief.

But then he was curious, why did this event change - he brought the Golden Orb fruit and had been prepared to contact the Solaris House to share a secret recipe in exchange for their assistance, now it was not required- Maybe the goddess who let him regression change things?

"Sis- tell me everything - what happened here? How did it lead to this?"

Selena sighed softly and narrated her ordeal, leaving out the part with Veil Daemons.

She spoke about Kane Solaris, how he was mute all the time from memory loss due to extreme torture, how they escaped from that Psychopath Jiah, how at every step of the way- Kane would literally stand like a wall and support her, his heroic act and how he gave the Ultimate Sacrifice to save her.

"Kane Solaris", Johan was incredibly surprised and stunned, in the alternate timeline - this fop had been kill brutally - ripped apart around the same time his sister died.

But in this new timeline, Kane the fop had indeed implicated his sister but he had also saved her.

Kane and Selena had indeed shared life and death together as comrades, he empathized with his Sister deeply - how many such good friends did he lose in that alternate life?

It was almost hard to believe, but he knew his sister enough that she would never lie about such a matter.

But a curious thought suddenly struck him, could it be...

"Where is his body?",Johan quickly asked.

If he failed to save that fop, he might as well say goodbye to his future marriage forever!

This was two pronged strategy! He would alleviate his Sister's guilt and bring himself in the good graces of the EXACTING Solaris family!

"Obviously in the morgue- Johan! Don't try anything funny - I know you hate him but he saved my life! If you try -", Selena immediately warned him as Johan quickly nodded like a chicken pecking rice and quickly went to the morgue.

He had to act fast, hopefully they froze his body like they did in the previous timeline.

He just entered the room and saw two doctors place a charred frozen cadaver on the table.

Fuck! They were about to dissect the fop!

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Johan yelled and began to randomly throw around stuff to stop the forensic morticians.

"Ey what the hell? Why you throwing a racket here?!", the older Forensic doctor was a bit pissed.

But Johan didn't give a shit.

He quickly examined Kane's lifeless body and saw the dark veins across his abdomen.

He took a needle and gently took a prick of the black veins.

He showed it to the Doctors," Revenant Venom - see how it burns , you guys were about to expose yourself to this stuff and you would be knocked out for a week straight!", he lit his lighter and an eerie green flame burst from the blood on the needle.

"Oh- I see, but shouldn't revenant venom give bluish green flames?", the older doctor nodded but then asked.

"If you look at his body, he was struck by lightning and took probably lots of doses of the red stuff - it causes the venom to act weirdly to cells, so don't do anything - put him back in the freezer", Johan quickly added.

"I suppose we'll have to call it in, You and Reddy can stuff the cadaver back in while the higher ups send specialists to deal with this case", the older doctor decided.

Johan felt a deep sense of relief and Helped Doctor Reddy to move back Kane into the freezer.

Now he just needed to convince House Solaris.

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The Beyond Realm, A Purgatory for Dead Souls.

Kane was staring at the endless night sky while relaxing on a boat of the Nether River Lethe.

"Man, I don't remember how it went last time but it involved sinking into some kind of ocean like realm", He spoke calmly.

"It was Peaceful - Well had quite a short run this time", He waited for the inevitable.

"Maybe Not", A deep voice spoke in the distance.

Kane casually looked up and saw a skeleton walk towards him.

" You are not dead enough yet, that's why the boat exists - you still have the tether to the living!", the skeleton spoke with red flames in his eyes.

"Interesting, tell me more", Kane gazed at the Skeleton curiously.

" See that staircase of bones, if that door opens and your soul shines, you better run before they steal your light, take this oar- Be warned Wrath of Nomos, Should you climb that the Steps of Mortality - the bone staircase - Your life and death will not longer be in anyone's hands, not mine not anyone's - your fate will truly be yours alone, but if you die, a fate worse than death awaits- "

"Yeah- it was you wasn't it-", Kane rolled his eyes at the Skeleton who just returned a shit eating grin.

"You know it, Gottago Gottago- take care boy- I'll greet all of your enemies you send here- I hope to never greet you", With that the Skeleton stepped into the Lethe river.

"Well, it explains a few things", Kane then began to row the boat towards the Steps of Mortality.

*Sigh"Man, People are never going to believe this- What the fuck do I care anyway - let's keep it simple - It's gay to die... Hahahahaha, I am going insane here heh", He chuckled and calmly approached the steps.

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Kayla received several messages from her good friend Johan, regarding Kane.

Johan was a funny guy who worked hard at slacking off but was pretty reliable when she needed him.

But his messages were concerning - really concerning.

Apparently, he found Kane.

Severely Poisoned.

In the morgue at the Tower Outpost.

It was unbelievable, but she was inclined to relay this information to her family.

If in case it was true, they could immediately rush.

She turned to inform her parents who looked bewildered at this.

"Are you sure we can trust him? He's a well known loon in our Regiment", Haytham frowned.

"He's pretty good at what he does and wouldn't lie to me, atleast ", Kayla was not confident herself but she trusted Johan.

"Fine, we are going there anyway, Ask him if Jiah's around - Haytham you handle Jiah- make it clean, Kane will have to live with it", Moira ordered in a more calm tone after reigning in her killing intent.

"Yes Mother", Haytham obeyed without question.

"What poison has he been infected with it?", Hadric asked Kayla.

"Let me ask him Father... Revenant's venom? What?", Kayla brows furrowed.

"Revenant's Venom? Are you sure?! If that's the case the situation is very dire- has he atleast kept him in a cold place?", Hadric immediately frowned at the thought of that troublesome Venom and that incredibly troublesome creature that it came from.

"Revenant's Venom... Surely not!!-",Moira couldn't help but worry at the prospect.

"He's told me he's tested it and for now Kane has been kept in the... Morgue's freezer", Kayla had a weird expression as she related the last bit of information.

"Morgue's Freezer - Well that Loon is definitely a loon", Haytham facepalmed himself.

"An Unconventional Loon for sure- but I don't mind - Let's reach that damned outpost first", Hadric muttered with a bit of relief in his eyes as he stared into the distance.

'Son, what trouble have you got into now...'