It started as a whisper.
Deep beneath the earth, in the hidden chambers where Parker had secured the Prime Cores, something fundamental shifted. The cores began to pulse—not with the steady rhythm they'd maintained since installation, but with something alive. Something that breathed.
Parker felt it first, the sensation hitting him like a cosmic tuning fork striking his soul. He was mid-sentence, explaining something to Helena about wedding, when every nerve in his body suddenly sang with harmonic resonance.
"Oh," he breathed, eyes widening as understanding flooded through him. "Oh shit."
The connection between him and the forty-two cores flared to life with brilliant intensity. Through that link, he could feel each one like a beating heart, pumping something far more vital than blood through the arteries of the planet.
Genesis Energy— lower rank to Omni Energy. Raw, untainted, transformative power that would reshape humanity itself.
