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Corrupted Goddess
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The year is 4162. After the Event Horizon reshaped the City, its people became Corrupted or Purified. Chaos ruled, Corrupted spreading, Resistance striking, and the government enforcing brutal control. Mayor Cassandra created Afterimage to eradicate both threats. Her final order: destroy the Event Horizon Zone. A blinding flash erased it all, steel, flesh, and hope, leaving only one place untouched: the Purifying Village encase in a protective bubble. The world called it victory. The survivors named it the Zero Zone.
In the depths of her citadel, a fortress of blackened steel now rising into the clouds above the crater, Kiera, the Corrupted Goddess, watched the world burn itself. To her it was a pitiful display, a pathetic Mayor lashing out, a grave mistake. Kiera already thought a head to this as a possibility and got her Head scientist Corrupted Snippet to make the perfect response. To show the world that corruption is inevitable.
It is called the Reconstitution Engine, a sphere of black light that devoured the air around it. It rained down across the wasteland of the Zero Zone, atoms twisted. Metal screamed as it liquefied. Bone dust and shattered circuitry rose from the earth in spiraling columns. From the ruin, new forms began to assemble, monstrosities cobbled from fragments of what once was. Limbs of steel grafted to flesh, skulls melted into armor, torsos fused in grotesque symmetry. Amalgamations of the fallen. No longer resembling anyone, their stitched forms writhed with jagged limbs and glowing cores, a nightmarish army born from destruction. Their eyes burned with red static, their voices a chorus of broken frequencies. Loyalty bound to Goddess Kiera alone
The Corrupted Undead were born.
The Corrupted Goddess had taken to the sky. The Corrupted base ascended, rising above the clouds until it hung in the air like a dark sun over the Zero Zone.
And below, the Zero Zone began to move.
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