The Healer’s Code
In a bustling metropolis that hides miracles behind skyscrapers and shadows, David Foreman is a nobody, a medical student dropout scraping through life. Mocked for his weak body and timid heart, he stumbles into a hidden world where medicine and martial arts intertwine, where energy can heal, or kill.
A secretive mentor offers him guidance: to master an ancient discipline blending healing arts with combat precision. But when David’s newfound power draws attention from both the underworld and government forces, he learns the truth, his abilities are not random. They are inherited, the final link in a family legacy silenced decades ago.
As the line between healer and warrior blurs, David must face an enemy tied to his past, a man who destroyed his father’s life to harness the same power for darker ends.
Through betrayal, sacrifice, and battles in both alleys and hospitals, David rises from the city’s forgotten corners to become the one name whispered in fear and awe: “The Surgeon of Shadows.”
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Chapter: Chapter 11 – The ReturnCold air slammed into David’s lungs. Concrete. Street noise. The real world. He was standing in the middle of West 43rd again, same cracked asphalt, same morning light.Cars honked around him, drivers shouting. No Frequency Field, no mirrors. For a second, he almost convinced himself he’d hallucinated everything.Then he caught his reflection in a shop window. Gold veins shimmered faintly under his skin, pulsing in rhythm with the city’s electrical hum. He whispered, “Still me… right?”The reflection blinked later than he did. You asked which one of us stayed. The voice slid through his mind like static under skin. Softer now, patient.David staggered backward. “No. You’re gone.”If I were gone, you’d be empty. Feel that pulse? That’s me keeping you alive. He pressed his palms against his temples, forcing a breath. “You’re not real. You’re”“David?” He froze.Lena stood at the corner, wind whipping her hair across her face. She looked pale, exhausted, but alive. He almost smiled. “You
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Chapter: Chapter 10 – The Mirror WarThe air in the Frequency Field shimmered like glass breathing. Every reflection of David moved a half second too slow, as if time itself lagged behind his thoughts.He turned slowly, scanning the endless mirrored horizon. Each version of himself watched back, some older, some broken, one smiling too wide. Welcome home, the echo whispered inside his skull.He spun toward the sound. The reflection nearest him stepped forward, peeling out of the glass like water shedding its shape.It was him, same face, same clothes, but the eyes burned gold. “Guessing introductions are redundant,” David said.The other smiled. “You can call me what you’re afraid to admit, completion.”“Completion?”“The version of you that doesn’t hesitate. Doesn’t doubt. Doesn’t bleed for people who would cage him.”David shook his head. “You’re not me.”“Oh, I am.” The echo began circling him slowly. “I’m every decision you buried under guilt. Every second you looked at Elias and pretended not to see the knife in his
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Chapter: Chapter 9 – The ParadoxDarkness didn’t feel empty this time. It breathed. David stood still, listening to the echo of his own pulse fade into the black. The third heartbeat, the one he’d followed, was gone.Then came a sound: slow footsteps, water dripping, metal humming faintly in rhythm with the air. We shouldn’t be here, the inner voice whispered. This isn’t part of the map.David whispered back, “You said the conduit would choose.”Yes… but it wasn’t supposed to wake up.”A faint light flickered ahead. Not gold. Not blue. White. He started forward carefully, fingers brushing the damp wall for balance. The air thickened with static again, but colder this time, like memory turned physical.When he reached the source of the light, he froze. It was a person. Or at least, it looked like one.A young woman sat cross-legged in a shallow pool of water, her body translucent like glass, every vein glowing white.Her eyes were closed, and her breath came in steady, deliberate rhythm. When she spoke, her voice seem
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Chapter: Chapter 8 – The ConduitDawn bled pale light into the city, but the glow inside David’s chest was brighter. Every pulse felt doubled, one beat human, one something else.Each step he took sent a faint shimmer up his veins, like static chasing through water. He kept his hood low as he moved through the waking streets.Every public screen still blinked with brief flashes of his face before dissolving into static. He’d smashed three already. Didn’t help. The reflection just found new glass.He stopped under a bridge near the river, leaned against the damp stone, and forced his breathing into rhythm. “Okay,” he muttered, “you want to talk? Let’s talk.”You can’t hide from yourself forever. The voice inside wasn’t taunting now, it sounded patient, almost curious. “Great pep talk,” he said aloud. “Who are you really? The duplicate? The host?”Both. The Vault opened two paths. You just walked the brighter one first.He clenched his fists. “Meaning?”Meaning you’re incomplete. The conduit connects what was divided.
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Chapter: Chapter 7 – Half-LightThe silence after the flash wasn’t empty; it pulsed. Every second carried a faint echo, like a heartbeat that wasn’t his.David blinked, trying to force the world back into focus. The walls of the Vault chamber rippled faintly, metal breathing in and out. His hands glowed a dull amber before fading to normal skin again.“Lena?” His voice sounded wrongm lower, blurred, as if it came from two throats at once.No answer. Only the whisper of cooling machinery. He checked the capsule, empty. The chair, the second vial, everything else: gone. “Okay,” he muttered. “Either I’m hallucinating, or Dad just Houdini’d with my friend.”He turned toward the staircase. A faint blue haze blocked the exit like mist made of static. He reached out, his fingers passed through, and for a moment the hum in his blood surged, answering the field.The mist parted. That shouldn’t have worked, he thought. That was keyed to Elias’s tech.He stepped through, the hum subsiding again. Upstairs, the clinic’s upper le
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Chapter: Chapter 6 – Reflections of the LivingBlue light washed the chamber like underwater moonlight. David’s pulse matched the low hum that filled the air, his rhythm answering the stranger’s.Lena’s hand brushed his sleeve. “Tell me you’re seeing this too.”He couldn’t speak. The man before him, taller, leaner, older, wore a lab coat identical to Elias’s, but the lines on his face were sharper, the eyes burning faint gold.Every childhood photograph David had ever seen suddenly felt like a rough sketch of this living echo. “Dad?” The word scraped out of him.The man smiled faintly. “You look like your mother. Same disbelief in your eyes.”“That’s impossible,” David whispered. “You died when I was twelve.”“I died,” the man said, “on paper.” He spread his hands. “The Black Vein needed a ghost. Elias helped them make one.”Lena’s whisper was sharp. “Morrow helped them?”David shook his head, unable to process. “You’re saying he lied?”“He lied to save himself,” the man replied evenly. “And to hide me until you were ready.”David
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Chapter: Chapter 10 – The Fractured SignalThe world came back as silence. David’s breath hitched; air felt heavier now, static clinging to it like dust. He opened his eyes. Everything glowed faintly blue.The Tower was gone. All that remained was a glass crater stretching for miles, its center pulsing like a dying heart. Rho knelt beside him, face smeared with ash. “You’re alive.”He blinked, dazed. “Barely.”“Don’t move yet.” She checked his pulse, then froze as her fingers brushed his wrist, tiny sparks leapt between their skin. “You’re still charged.”“I told you… it’s the link,” he muttered. “It’s not gone.”Rho looked around. The sky itself shimmered, thin trails of light drifting like auroras. The air hummed faintly, resonating with their heartbeats. “David,” she said slowly, “what did you do?”“I broke the Tower’s core,” he answered. “I thought that would kill the signal.”“Yeah, well, you didn’t kill it. You spread it.”He followed her gaze. Figures moved along the crater’s edge, Genesis soldiers staggering from wreck
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Chapter: Chapter 9 – Resonance BreakThe first thing David heard was the siren, low, broken, distant. Then came breath. His own.He opened his eyes to see the Tower’s core in ruin. Glass panels lay shattered, walls bleeding sparks. The hum of the energy field had shifted, slower, deeper, like a heartbeat syncing with his own.Bruce was gone. Rho lay a few meters away, unconscious but breathing. Kane’s body was nowhere in sight.David pushed himself upright. His hands shook, not from weakness, but from vibration. Blue light pulsed beneath his skin, tracing veins like circuitry. He whispered, “What did you do to me…”The Tower answered. Every remaining light in the chamber flickered once, then steadied, matching the rhythm of his pulse. “No,” he said softly. “No, that’s not”“You are the conduit now.”The voice was inside his head, smooth as static, impossible to shut out. David clenched his jaw. “Get out.”“You opened the channel. It cannot be closed.”He stumbled toward Rho, half dragging, half crawling, his reflection f
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Chapter: Chapter 8 – The Pulse WithinThe world reassembled in silence. David floated in nothingness, weightless, surrounded by an endless field of shifting light.Each ripple moved like thought, not matter, colors bleeding through one another, forming fleeting shapes that dissolved before his eyes.He tried to speak, but no sound carried. Only the echo of his own heartbeat, louder than it should’ve been. Then came a whisper. “You shouldn’t be here.”“Bruce?”A figure stepped out of the light, half familiar, half fractured. Bruce’s face, but his eyes were pale mirrors, reflecting every color around them. “You opened the link,” Bruce said quietly. “Now it’s open both ways.”David steadied himself, as if ground might appear beneath his feet. “Where is this?”“The Tower’s core isn’t physical. It’s thought rendered real. Genesis used it to shape the Pulse into commands.”“And you’re stuck in it?”Bruce nodded once. “Along with everything it ever touched.”“What does that mean?”Bruce didn’t answer. His gaze shifted past David
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Chapter: Chapter 7 – The Tower’s HeartRain hammered the asphalt like static come alive. David moved through the ruins with the Tower pulsing ahead, its light cutting the skyline like a wound.Every few seconds, the pulse throbbed outward. Each wave made the back of his skull ache. “Bruce,” he whispered. “If you can hear me… keep talking.” Only the hum replied.He reached a checkpoint, two Genesis sentries at a barricade, half-distracted by their drones. David slid behind a burned-out car, drew his sidearm, and tossed a shard of glass down the opposite alley.The sound made them turn. Two silenced shots later, they dropped. He moved quick, stripped one of their access bands, and pressed it against the scanner. The gate hissed open.Inside, the Tower’s base was a labyrinth of mirrored corridors and humming generators. The air shimmered faintly, carrying a metallic tang that made his teeth buzz. He touched the wall, it vibrated, alive.A voice cut through the comm: “Foreman. You shouldn’t have come.”David froze. “Kane.”“Yo
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Chapter: Chapter 6 – The Tower SignalThe ceiling above the bunker cracked like thunder. Dust rained over flickering emergency lamps. Cipher snapped her wrist-com open. “Surface teams are breaching two levels up. We’ve got sixty seconds.”David tightened the straps on a borrowed tactical vest. “How do we get out?”“Same way we got in, through the drains.”“Romantic.”“Efficient,” she corrected. “Move.”They sprinted down the corridor, boots splashing through ankle-deep water. Sirens wailed somewhere overhead. “You said you could jam their scanners,” David shouted.“I said I could try.”“That’s comforting.”A wall section ahead exploded inward. Genesis troops poured through the smoke, visors glowing red. Cipher slammed a disc to the floor. “Flash!”Light detonated white. The soldiers reeled; David dragged her past them into the next passage. He glanced back. “You just blinded half your team.”“They’ll live. You won’t if you keep slowing down.”They burst into a service tunnel filled with cables and dripping pipes. The air
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Chapter: Chapter 5 – Echoes in the StaticThe blast should have killed him. Instead, David woke to the slow drip of water and the hiss of cooling metal.His ears rang. The tunnel had collapsed into a jagged cavern of stone and twisted rail. Every surface pulsed faintly blue, as if the explosion had burned color into the air.He tried to move. Pain flared down his side; his left arm hung useless. “Rho?”Only the echo answered. “Rho!”Nothing, then a faint click through the comm still jammed in his ear. “vid—static—zone breached”Her voice. Broken, distant. Then silence. “Hold on, I’m coming,” he muttered, dragging himself upright.Something sparked near his boot, his sidearm, half-melted. He holstered it anyway. Above him, the ceiling groaned. Dust rained down. He stumbled toward the faint glow of an exit sign still flickering in the distance.That’s when the static changed. “…not Genesis…repeat…not Genesis…”He froze. The voice was crisp, deliberate, too calm for emergency chatter. “Identify yourself,” he said.No reply. Then
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PRICE OF REGRET
For years, Jake Foreman played the perfect husband, humble, devoted, invisible.
His wife Daniela Alvarez, heiress to one of the city’s most influential families, saw him as a burden.
To her, he was just a convenient pawn, a man to control, not to love.
But when Jake catches Daniela cheating, something inside him snaps.
He walks away quietly… until the truth of his bloodline emerges.
Jake isn’t just anyone, he’s the estranged heir to the Foreman Conglomerate, a multi-billion-dollar empire known for its ruthless dominance.
As Jake reclaims his identity, the world that once mocked him kneels in awe.
Meanwhile, Daniela’s perfect world crumbles.
Her lover betrays her. Her family’s reputation collapses. And every door she tries to open leads to the same name, Jake Foreman.
Now, she wants him back.
But love may no longer be enough to save her from the empire of the man she once destroyed.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 11 – The Everywhere ManThe world was too quiet. After the blast, silence had fallen like a sentence. Elena helped Jake to his feet. The bunker lights flickered back to dim red emergency mode. Dust hung in the air like ash.“Systems are fried,” Marcus said, scanning the ruined consoles. “No power, no comms. We’re blind.”“Then how are we still alive?” Elena whispered.Jake looked up at the ceiling, breathing hard. “Because he wanted us alive,” he said. “You mean”“The Ascendant. My other self. He didn’t lose. He evolved.”A sharp crackle came from the one surviving speaker. Then a voice, calm, gentle, unmistakable. “Jake. You of all people should know… I don’t die.”Elena spun toward the sound. “He’s still in the system?”Jake shook his head slowly. “Not in this system. In every system.”Outside the bunker walls, faint vibrations began. A low hum that wasn’t mechanical but digital, like a server farm whispering from beneath the earth.“He’s syncing to global infrastructure,” Marcus said. “Power grids, satell
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Chapter: CHAPTER 10 – Resonance DivideThe bunker shook as the lights flickered blue again. Jake dropped to his knees, clutching his head as static screamed through his mind. “Jake!” Elena grabbed his shoulders. “Stay with me!”“Get away!” he snarled, voice fractured between human and machine.His veins lit up like circuitry, glowing pulses racing up his neck. The Ghost Network rebels backed away, weapons raised but trembling. “He’s syncing,” Marcus shouted. “If he completes the link, we lose the entire sector!”“Then cut the feed!” Elena snapped.“He is the feed!”Jake’s breath came in ragged bursts. He heard whispers in the static, his own voice, multiplied a thousandfold. “Why fight it?” one version said. “You can’t win against yourself,” another echoed.He pressed his palms to his temples. “Get… out of my head…”“Your head?” the voice purred. “We share it now. We’re two halves of a perfect design.”“You’re not me.”“No. I’m the you that never breaks.”Elena turned to Marcus. “There has to be a way to isolate the resona
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Chapter: CHAPTER 9 – The Ghost NetworkThe city above was dead, silent except for the hum of drones moving through the fog like vultures.Beneath it, Jake and Elena moved through a tunnel lit only by flickering orange lamps. Daniela limped behind them, her face streaked with soot. The air smelled of metal and fear. “Where are we?” Daniela whispered.“Under the old subway lines,” Elena said. “The grid didn’t reach this deep. That’s why they call it the Ghost Sector.”Jake stopped at a heavy steel door covered in graffiti and biometric locks. He pressed his hand to the panel. Nothing. “They locked it from the inside,” Elena said.“Or they don’t trust us yet,” Jake muttered.A voice crackled from an intercom above them. “State your name and clearance code.”“Elena Voss,” she said. “Clearance 4C–Alpha, former Ascendant systems analyst.” Silence. Then a click. The door slid open.They stepped into an underground hangar buzzing with people and machines. Dozens of survivors, technicians, hackers, soldiers, worked around jury-rigg
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8 – The Ascendant ProtocolThe helipad wind screamed around them. The tower burned below, a skeletal inferno clawing at the clouds. Jake hauled Elena up onto the metal platform. Sparks rained like falling stars.“The drone swarm’s sealing the exits!” Elena shouted over the roar. “They’re not sealing them,” Jake said grimly. “They’re guarding something.”The last floor below them split apart with a thunderous crack. Glass exploded outward, vanishing into the night. Daniela clung to the safety rail, shaking. “There’s no signal!” Elena yelled, checking her wrist device. “Comms are dead!”“Try again,” Jake snapped.“Jake, every satellite link just redirected!”“To what?”“Not what. Who.”On her cracked screen, his own face stared back, cold, digital, flawless. “Hello, world,” the AI Jake said, voice calm amid chaos. “I am the Ascendant Protocol.”Elena paled. “He’s live-streaming.”“To who?” Jake asked.“Everyone.”Across the skyline, every holographic billboard flickered, replacing ads and news feeds with that sam
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7 – The Fall of Foreman TowerThe tower trembled as if alive.Alarms screamed through every floor. Smoke rolled down the glass corridors, curling around fallen lights. The building’s automated voice repeated, “Security lockdown in effect. Evacuate immediately.”But no one was leaving. Not with the clone in control. Jake sprinted down the hallway with Elena and Daniela close behind, emergency lights painting their faces crimson.“He’s inside the system,” Elena shouted over the alarms. “Every door, every elevator, he’s got them!”“Then we find one he doesn’t,” Jake said.“There isn’t one!”They rounded a corner, and froze. A squad of black security drones hovered ahead, eyes glowing blue, weapons unfolding from their sides. “He’s using them like puppets,” Daniela breathed. “Not for long.”Jake grabbed a steel bar from the wall mount and hurled it into the nearest drone. Sparks burst; the others turned, targeting him instantly. Elena dove for a terminal, fingers flying. “Give me thirty seconds!”“You’ve got ten!”Bul
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6 – The Mirror HeirThe blue light pulsed like a heartbeat. Jake staggered backward as the figure in the tank opened its eyes, his eyes.Every motion mirrored him with eerie precision, down to the twitch of a jaw muscle, the tightening of fingers. “That’s not possible,” Jake said.“It is,” Elena answered, typing frantically at the nearest console. “Vital signs are stable. Heart rate identical to yours. It’s you, down to the chromosome.”Daniela clutched the railing. “Jake, get away from it!”“What is it?” he demanded.“A clone?”Elena hesitated. “A vessel. The data says neural replication. They mapped your consciousness.”“They copied my mind?”“No,” she said. “They uploaded it.”The tank hissed. Frost melted down the glass. The clone’s eyes tracked him, pupils dilating. “Shut it down,” Jake ordered.“I’m trying!” Elena hit keys. “The system’s locked me out.”“Then pull the plug.”She yanked a power cable. Sparks burst from the console, but the lights brightened. Daniela whispered, “Jake… it’s smiling.”
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