CHAPTER 439: ROSE ADRIAN! III

Rose felt her new form pulse with the truth of these words floating before her!

She could sense it...the potential for transformation that went beyond anything the Hive Queen had intended.

Once a month, she could become something entirely new, something that existence itself would have to acknowledge and document!

But that was not all.

Flows of information continued to flow into her mind and also appear as words in floating text boxes of her new capabilities.

|Genetic Weaving Sight: You can perceive and tap into hidden genetic sequences within yourself and others. Every being contains dormant DNA, junk code that evolution discarded, potential paths that were never taken. You can see these ghost genetics and activate them, awakening abilities that should have been lost to time.|

|Lineage Synthesis: When in contact with any being, you can temporarily synthesize aspects of their lineage into your own, creating hybrid capabilities that exist only for the duration of contact. This synthesis does not steal from the target but rather creates a resonance between lineages.|

...!

Oh!

The implications made her consciousness reel.

She could touch someone and, for that moment of contact, become a fusion of their potential and hers.

And there was still more!

|Empress’s Genetic Mandate: You can issue genetic commands to willing subjects, optimizing their biological processes, healing genetic damage, or awakening dormant potential.|

|Primordial Memory Archive: Your consciousness now contains a genetic memory bank of every species you encounter or transform into. This archive is cumulative and permanent, allowing you to access the instincts, resistances, and biological advantages of accumulated forms even when not actively transformed.|

Rose’s water form trembled as more capabilities revealed themselves, each one more impossible than the last.

|Evolutionary Cascade: In moments of extreme need, you can trigger rapid evolutionary adaptations in yourself or nearby allies, forcing millions of years of evolution to occur in seconds. These adaptations are targeted and intelligent, specifically countering whatever threat is present.|

|Genome Reconstruction: You can rebuild damaged or destroyed genetic material from trace remnants. A single cell, a drop of blood, even genetic residue left on an object...these become seeds from which you can reconstruct complete biological patterns.|

The prompts paused, as if existence itself needed a moment to process what it was documenting. Then, one final message appeared, this one bordered not just in blue but traced with lines of golden fire!

|Empress’s Prerogative - Ultimate Capability: Once per stellar year, you may perform a Complete Existence Revolution on yourself or one willing target. This permanently transforms them into an entirely new species of your design, custom-crafted at the genetic level. This new species will be perfectly adapted to their needs, desires, and destiny.|

Rose stood in stunned silence as the prompts finally faded, though the knowledge they contained remained burned into her consciousness.

She was no longer just Rose, no longer just someone who had been transformed. She had become...

The Primordial Genome Empress.

The title resonated through her water form, each molecule of her being acknowledging the truth of it.

She had sought to overcome a limitation for Achilles’s sake, to provide him with the variety his lineage required. Instead, she had become something that could provide not just variety but entirely new possibilities.

"Fuuuck..."

She shook her head looked at her hands...liquid, flowing, constantly shifting between states, and realized she could feel the potential within them.

With a touch, she could heal genetic diseases that had plagued bloodlines for millennia. With a thought, she could become something that had never existed before. With intent, she could help others evolve beyond their current limitations.

The weight of such power should have been overwhelming. Instead, it felt like coming home to a self she had never known existed.

Every transformation she had undergone...from dying woman to stellar being to this, had been preparing her for this moment.

She could sense her own genome now, not as fixed code but as a living language she could speak, write, and rewrite at will. Within her genetic structure, she could feel the archived memories of her human form, the stellar adaptations she had gained, and now this water-based existence!

But more than that, she could feel the potential for forms not yet imagined, species not yet designed, evolutions not yet attempted.

The Sea of Thalassara around her seemed to pulse in recognition. Every droplet of water that touched her form now carried a whisper of her new nature!

Rose took a breath...or performed the equivalent action in her water form, and felt the universe itself adjust to accommodate her new existence.

It was surreal!

She turned.

Without warning, she moved forward and embraced Kythara.

The Hive Queen, for perhaps the first time in eons, was taken completely aback. She stood frozen as Rose’s water-form arms wrapped around her bio-metallic body, the embrace somehow both liquid and solid, conveying gratitude that transcended words.

"Thank you," Rose said. "Thank you for giving me this gift, this chance of change. It seems that I will be able to heavily repay you."

"..." The Hive Queen did not know what to say or do for the first time as she could only...nod in a daze as she felt like the change that had occured wss very different from what she expected!

At such a moment..

"Well..." a familiar voice interrupted from directly above them as the figure of Achilles appeared, his eyes showing care, concern, and surprise all at once as somwthing he had not seen in the futures he was observing occured!

Rose turned, her entire body rotating with fluid grace to see Achilles floating in the air above them, his purple-gold hair moving in stellar winds that only he could feel.

"You were observing everything, weren’t you?" Rose said with shining eyes.

"The Sea of Thalassara is my domain," Achilles replied, descending to stand on the water’s surface with them. "Every droplet sings to me of what occurs within its embrace. When I felt the transformation beginning, how could I not ensure you were safe?"

Rose’s form rippled. Her emerald eyes, still somehow perfectly her despite being suspended in living water, sparkled with mischief. "But how is it? How do I look? I have a big surprise for you, Little Fatty!"

Achilles stepped closer, his hand reaching out to touch her face. His fingers passed slightly into her liquid form before finding purchase, the contact sending ripples across her features that caught the light in spectacular patterns.

"Beautiful," he said simply. "Different, but still absolutely you."

Rose’s expression shifted to something playfully triumphant. She grasped his hand, her water fingers somehow solid enough to pull him forward. "Come on, we have to get down to business right away to test things!"

As she began to pull him away, she turned back to look at Kythara, who was still processing the rapid shift.

Rose’s expression became serious, her water form somehow conveying deep solemnity despite its fluid nature.

"I won’t forget this," she said to the Hive Queen, "I’ll send another body here soon as my new lineage...will likely be able to help you tremendously as well!"

...!

Kythara’s multifaceted eyes blinked in their wave pattern, and something that might have been emotion flickered across her features.

"Okay, okay..." she said, her voice unusually gentle. "Just share with me the results!"

Rose was already pulling Achilles away, her laughter mixing with his as they disappeared into the depths of the Sea of Thalassara, leaving Kythara standing on the surface with her hive members, all of them watching the ripples that marked the passage of something unprecedented in the history of biological existence.

The Hive Queen’s cackle returned, echoing across the waters as she dispersed her helpers back through their wormholes.

The Sea of Thalassara continued its expansion, carrying within its waters the memory of glorious transformation as the house of the Adrastia Emperor King...was put in order and set on a path of profound glory!