Hades' Cursed Luna Chapter 452: Blood And Iron

Eve

Everyone exchanged glances. Maya raised a brow, her eyes raking over Thea. "Go on."

"Let’s take the case of a poisonous gas as an example," She rose, gesturing with her hands. "When one is encountered, what is the solution?" she asked.

"A gas mask," Kael answered.

Thea snapped her fingers, her eyes gleaming as though she had seen all the secrets of the universe. "Yes, why not create a vaccine so the gas will have no effect?"

"It wouldn’t make much sense. It would be a waste," Gallinti replied to her question.

"Let us see the radiation as a cataclysmic tide that will fall over our world and instead of trying to find ways to ensure that people don’t react to it, we will try to create a gas mask for it, but on a far larger scale, a containnt vessel that the tide cannot penetrate and reach the civilians."

Maya seed to turn over her words in her head but she still looked unconvinced. "I see what you are saying—you prefer a more physical approach to a biological one."

Thea nodded enthusiastically, delicate hope twinkling in her eyes.

But Maya did not seem at all fazed. "I have been working on the coming of the bloodmoon since the reign of Late Alpha Lucas, the gods bless his soul." Her gaze was cutting as she spoke to Thea, whose shoulders had already begun to slump. "We have attempted shields against the radiation. Every material, every elent toxic and non-toxic, every alloy—no one can filter out the radiation much less completely deflect it. No material in existence is impenetrable to the radiation that the Bloodmoon will bring."

Once again we were at a dead end.

We were plumting again.

But though Thea had looked defeated, she had not sat again, the gears in her head were turning so hard and fast that I was sure that we could hear them.

I locked eyes with everyone except for Kael who was wholly consud with staring at Thea as she put together a puzzle in her head.

She snapped her finger again, and it sounded like a thunder clap. "Why not use a tal infused with Lily’s... I an... the Luna’s Fenrir’s marker. It will make it impervious to the radiation, it will be impenetrable."

Again, Maya was not impressed, she even crossed her arms. "Markers are proteins, even supernatural ones such as the Fenrir’s marker. Exposure to heat, pressure or the elents during welding of the tal will completely denature it leaving it absolutely useless—that is if it even bonds properly to the tal."

She was shooting down every suggestion.

Thea’s eyes dimd again but she still did not sit, she simply refused to give in. The grinding gears in her head resud.

Again, we exchanged glances, all except Kael who did not look away from her.

Suddenly, Thea’s head whipped to us.

Hades and I.

"Forgive for the question I am about to ask, are you two mates, whether fated or chosen and if so are you bonded?" She asked it with all seriousness.

I blinked but Hades found his tongue and answered. "Yes, we are fated and bonded mates."

A slow dangerous smile spread on her lips. "That’s even better."

Hades raised a brow. "Why are you asking?"

"When my parents were in the military and one ended up injured to the point of requiring blood, they could easily donate to one another. Because the blood or other biological materials of mates have an innate affinity for the other."

Kael rose too, tearing his eyes away from Thea to look at Hades. "Like what happened in the lab when the containnt of both your blood and Eve’s Fenrir’s mark shattered so they could reach each other and intertwine."

"Yes," Hades affird.

Kael faced Thea. "Their innate affinity is strong, very."

She smiled up at him like he had the galaxy in his eyes. "That’s perfect."

"So where are you going with this?" Maya inquired, almost bored.

Thea answered, self-assured like it all suddenly made sense. "We create a composite using both your blood types. The vampire blood acts as a protective lattice—since it’s immortal, it can’t degrade or denature. When we bond the Fenrir’s marker to it, the marker gets locked into this unbreakable matrix. Your mate bond ensures they’ll actually combine instead of rejecting each other. Then we can infuse this composite into iron during talworking without destroying the immunity properties. The result is tal that’s genuinely impervious to Blood Moon radiation—not because we’re blocking it, but because the tal itself carries the immunity."

For the first ti, both of Maya’s brows rose in surprise and realization. "It is possible, a composite can be made out of the combination of the two in the right ratio, with a catalyst. It can work especially with iron, an elent already present in blood. The bonding will be perfect." She was close to yelling. "This is a breakthrough."

My heart was in my throat as I spoke. "It could work?"

"There is no other option and it all just fits perfectly."

I turned to Thea, relief making my shoulders slump and my lips tremble. "Thank you."

"You are welco, li--- Luna," she replied, not eting my eyes again. "Hopefully, it works."

Hades studied Thea. "How do you know all of this?" he asked.

Thea gulped, "I didn’t go to college but I was a laboratory assistant for a while and studied more on my own."

Hades smirked. "Interesting," he murmured. "Would you like to work in the lab with Dr Maya?" he asked.

The way her eyes seed to twinkle was all the reply we needed.

Maya stepped forward, her earlier uncertainty replaced by scientific fervor. "If we start imdiately, we can have prototypes ready for testing within days. The composite will need to be refined, but the basic process is straightforward."

"How much ti do we need for full implentation?" Hades asked, his tactical mind already working through logistics.

"Two weeks for the composite perfection, another two for talworking integration," Maya calculated aloud. "We’ll need significant blood samples from Eve, but nothing that would compromise your health."

I felt a weight lift from my shoulders that I hadn’t even realized was there. "So we can actually protect everyone."