JO-11 looked down at his dead friend amongst the rubble of the empire that he saw him build. Built upon the idea of revenge, but also sustainability in what he thought was a perfect civilization. Perhaps flawed, in more ways than most, but the fact remained that it was a successful kingdom that rose from the ashes of an oppressive force. A force, that most allied under.

Dragging his body from the inside of Anderson's city to here was not an easy task. It took weeks to achieve, and his friends body was rotted. Yet the state of his body didn't matter, as JO-11 proceeded to plunge his fist into the soft flesh of his friends head, and pulled out a small blue chip. "You aren't dead yet, friend. You simply need to be reborn. First, however... We should upgrade you."

JO-11 walked down the broken hallways of the castle, seeing rotted corpses of nobles and other high-class men and women. No matter how much Luciferium they took it couldn't stop something as plain and simple as death. Only one thing could do something like that, and it was reserved for this case especially. His world did not have magic, and they did not have a fantastical belief in friendship and ideology, as Daybreaker said she built her foundation upon, despite her actions playing against her words.

Daybreaker was a traitor, and she would eventually pay. Same with her student, her sister, and that bastard.

Rex Rice. A simple name for a simple man. Atleast, that's what he was supposed to be. Yet, upon being ambushed in a tribal camp, he unhinged his jaw and ate his men like a snake. He had a purple eye, same as Tarbo, and had something inside of him controlling his newfound power. He was a cruel image of what a human should be, and he would be exterminated with time.

JO-11 found himself at his destination, deep inside the underground laboratory's secret passageway. In front of him stood a large casket with multiple buttons all over it. He opened the casket with one of the buttons, and inside it revealed something that looked human, but wasn't. It was green in color, and had cracks all over the skin with molten lava being contained inside. It's eyes were hollow and black, with it's mouth slightly open to reveal pure-white teeth.

"The Osiris Casket. I didn't think I'd ever need to use this, friend." JO-11 said as he looked at the chip. He inserted the chip into the machine, to which it then pushed it through before stopping at the base of the creatures neck. It then slit itself like a disk in a computer, and the casket shut violently afterwards. A dial in the middle began to spin, revealing a count-down timer of three months.

He smirked, turning around and heading outside the hidden room. As he left he passed under a sign that was placed over the entrance of the room.

PROJECT ARCHOSEED CONTAINMENT ROOM

Author's Note

And so, Project Archoseed begins...