SHADOWS OF THE OAT
Nathan has spent the last five years trying to leave his past behind. Once an elite operative of The Oath, a secret organization controlling world events from the shadows, he walked away, seeking peace. But one night, he wakes up in a bloodstained room with no memory of the last 48 hours—only to find himself branded as a terrorist and the target of a nationwide manhunt.
On the run and unsure if he truly committed the crime, Nathan turns to Riley, a skilled underground hacker, for help. As they dig deeper, they uncover a terrifying truth—his memories have been altered. Clues left behind by Elias Graves reveal that Nathan once broke his unbreakable oath to the organization, but someone wiped his mind to keep him from remembering why. The conspiracy leads to Julian, Nathan’s former best friend, who is orchestrating a global web of deception built on manufactured threats and lies.
Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan infiltrates The Oath’s headquarters for a final confrontation with Julian. But the shocking revelation leaves him shattered—Nathan wasn’t framed. He willingly took part in the crime but later chose to erase his own memory to escape the unbearable guilt. A recorded message from his past self forces him to face a critical decision:
Expose Julian and bring down The Oath, risking global chaos.
Take control of The Oath and become the very thing he once fought against.
No matter what he chooses, the cost is high. If he exposes The Oath, the world is thrown into instability, and he is forever hunted. If he takes over, he sacrifices his own ideals, embracing the power he once rejected.
In the end, as Nathan looks at his reflection, he sees Julian staring back—proof that the cycle never truly ended.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 220The Last ThoughtI stare at my reflection, my breath uneven, my eyes hollow. The glass is cracked—thin fractures running like veins across the surface, distorting my face. Fitting.The overhead light flickers, casting brief shadows across the room. It’s cold. Not the kind of cold that bites at your skin, but the kind that settles in your bones, that tells you something is coming. The kind that makes you wonder if it’s always been there, waiting.I press my palms against the sink, fingers curling against the porcelain. The weight in my chest isn’t fear. It isn’t regret. It’s something worse. A question with no answer.Behind me, the door creaks open. A slow, deliberate sound. My hand moves instinctively to my gun, but I already know who it is."That the last time you’re gonna check yourself out, Nathan?" a voice teases, rough with amusement.I smirk, though it feels foreign on my face. "Figured I should see what’s left of me before I walk out that door."Jackson leans against the doorf
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Chapter: CHAPTER 219The End of the LineThe city is quiet. Too quiet.Not the kind of quiet that comes with peace, but the kind that signals something is about to break. It settles over the skyline, heavy, waiting. The streets are empty, but the ghosts of what I’ve built, of what I’ve destroyed, linger in the alleyways and shadowed corners.I stand at the edge of it all, watching from the rooftop of an old high-rise, the cold wind whipping against my face. Below me, the pieces are moving, each player stepping into position, some thinking they’re the ones holding the strings. They aren’t.They never were.Jackson shifts beside me, his hands buried deep in his pockets. He’s restless. Always is before things go south.“You sure about this?” he asks.I don’t answer right away. Because there’s no easy answer. No right one, either.He sighs, shaking his head. “You always do this. Get in too deep and think you can control every variable. But this—” he gestures to the streets below, to the quiet before the storm
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Chapter: CHAPTER 218The Final MoveThe city is waiting.It doesn't know it yet, but the tides are shifting. Power doesn’t disappear; it transforms and morphs into something new, something unrecognizable until it’s already taken hold. I’ve seen it happen too many times to count. This time, I’m the one pulling the strings.This time, it ends on my terms.I stand in the shadows of an empty warehouse, the scent of oil and dust thick in the air. The city hums outside, its lights flickering through the gaps in the rusted metal walls. Jackson stands beside me, his body tense, arms crossed. He’s waiting for me to explain, to tell him what comes next.I let the silence stretch before I finally speak.“We’re not burning it down.”Jackson’s head snaps toward me, eyes narrowing. “What?”I meet his stare, my voice steady. “We’re not wiping the board clean. We’re flipping it.”For the first time in a long time, Jackson looks unsure. He shifts his weight, jaw tightening as he processes my words. “You said yourself—this
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Chapter: CHAPTER 217The Final CrossroadsThe city hums beneath me, restless and alive. From this rooftop, I see everything—the neon glow stretching into the horizon, the winding streets below, the fractured heartbeat of a place that never stops moving. A world of light and shadow, built on secrets, power, and debts that can never truly be repaid.The air is thick with the scent of rain and asphalt, the faintest trace of gasoline lingering in the wind. It’s the smell of something on the verge of combustion, of a city always teetering on the edge of chaos. I tighten my grip on the cigarette between my fingers, watching the ember glow in the dark, a tiny heartbeat against the cold night. I don’t smoke. Not really. I just like the way it feels—holding something that’s burning, something that’s alive for just a little while before it fades into nothing.I should walk away.I should let it all burn.But I don’t.Because no matter how much I tell myself that I don’t care anymore, that none of it matters, the tr
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Chapter: CHAPTER 216The Last Time He Sees RileyThe air is colder than I expected. Maybe that’s fitting. Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be.She’s already there when I arrive, standing near the edge of the pier, arms folded tight against the wind. The city sprawls behind her, all light and noise, but out here, it’s just the quiet lapping of the water and the space between us.Riley doesn’t turn when I approach.“I wasn’t sure you’d come,” she says, her voice carrying over the water, calm but unreadable.I stop a few feet away. Close enough to feel the weight of her presence. Far enough to know I shouldn’t get any closer.“Neither was I,” I admit.She exhales a slow, steady breath. “You look the same.”“So do you.”A lie.There’s something different in her now. Something more guarded, more distant. Like she’s finally built the walls she should’ve had when we were younger.Like she’s learned.She turns, finally meeting my gaze, and for a moment, it’s just us. No past, no future. Just this one sliver of t
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Chapter: CHAPTER 215The Fall of KingsThe thing about power is that it never learns.It moves through different hands, dresses itself in new suits, and speaks in fresh voices. But underneath, it’s always the same: greed, arrogance, and the inevitable mistake of thinking you can control what was never meant to be tamed.Ronan believed he could do it differently.I watch from the shadows as he proves himself wrong.---The city is quieter these days. Not because the storm has passed, but because it’s waiting to break.I see it in the way people move, the way deals are whispered instead of spoken. Ronan’s reign is still fresh, but already, the cracks are showing.And he doesn’t even realize it.Or maybe he does. Maybe he’s just too proud to admit it.I’m standing outside a high-rise downtown, watching from across the street. Up there, behind floor-to-ceiling windows, Ronan is playing king. A meeting’s in progress—his men, his allies, his problems.He thinks he has time. He thinks he’s in control.He doesn’t
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Chapter: CHAPTER 100The New RealityThe first thing I notice is the quiet.No hum of power beneath my feet. No distant, whispering voices. Just silence—vast and endless—pressing against my skull. My breath feels too loud, my heartbeat like a drum in a hollow room.I blink against the brightness—too sharp, too clean. The world around me is… normal. A city street, glass buildings reflecting the afternoon sun, people moving, laughing, talking. They don’t see me standing here like a ghost among them.Something isn’t right.I take a slow breath, clenching and unclenching my fists. The motion should ground me, but it doesn’t. Because even as my body remembers how to move, how to breathe, my mind is—Blank.I don’t know where I am.No—scratch that. I don’t know when I am.Panic licks at the edge of my consciousness, but I push it down, forcing myself to think. I scan the streets, searching for something—anything—that sparks recognition. But all I see are strangers, their faces blurring together like a moving pu
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Chapter: CHAPTER 99The Last RewriteThe moment my hand connected with the Nexus, everything cracked.Not just the system. Not just the Overseers.Reality itself.The world around me fractured into endless fragments, each one reflecting a different version of me.A villain. A god. A forgotten shadow.I saw myself as a tyrant, standing over a broken world, ruling with absolute control. My voice echoed like thunder, commanding obedience with a flick of my wrist. Cities burned in my name. The Overseers kneeled before me, afraid.Then another.A version of me so detached from humanity that I had become one of them. Cold. Unfeeling. A silent watcher in the void, existing only to maintain balance. No emotion. No past. No Kane.And then—a ghost.A Tony who had never mattered at all. Forgotten. Wiped away by the system. Like I had never even existed.I sucked in a breath, my pulse hammering against my ribs. The visions weren’t just illusions. They were possibilities. Every choice I could have made. Every version
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Chapter: CHAPTER 98The Final ChoiceThe Nexus pulsed, alive and waiting. The data streams around me twisted in endless motion, raw power humming beneath my fingertips.I could feel it.The code. The structure of reality itself.It wasn’t just something I could access.It was me.And now, I had a choice.Rewrite it all.Or let things stay as they were.But if I rewrote it, I didn’t know what would be left. What would remain? Who would remain?I gritted my teeth, my hands shaking. The glitch in my arm flickered wildly, surging up to my shoulder now, crawling toward my chest like a living thing. It wasn’t just a malfunction. It was the system correcting itself.Correcting me.Kane stepped in front of me, her eyes sharp, unwavering. “Tony. You have to think about this.”I exhaled, slow and uneven. “I am thinking about this.”Elias groaned behind me. “Are you? Because I gotta say, I’m getting some ‘impulsive self-sacrifice’ vibes here, and I don’t like it.”I shot him a look. “You think I want this?”“I thin
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Chapter: CHAPTER 97Entering The NexusThe Nexus pulsed around us, humming with a presence I couldn’t ignore. It wasn’t just there—it was aware.Massive constructs spiraled outward like an infinite machine, stretching into nothingness. The walls weren’t solid, but layers of shifting code, rewriting themselves in real-time. Every step we took sent ripples through the space, like reality itself was adjusting to accommodate us.Or maybe just me.I swallowed the knot in my throat. The closer we got to the core, the stronger that connection became.Kane walked beside me, her eyes scanning every inch of the impossible structure. She was tense but focused. Elias followed just behind, his grip tight on his weapon, his stance coiled and ready.None of us spoke.Not until we reached the center.The Nexus core wasn’t a room. It wasn’t a console. It was… something else. A colossal, shifting mass of raw data, spiraling inwards like a digital hurricane. Symbols and scripts flickered through the air, rewriting themselv
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Chapter: CHAPTER 96The Overseers’ FearThe High Overseers didn’t move at first. They just watched me. Silent. Still. Their forms, shifting between solid and unreal, pulsed with an energy that made the air around them feel electric. My skin prickled, the hair on the back of my neck standing on end.But then, something changed.It was subtle at first—just a flicker, a hesitation. The smallest step back.Then another.A realization slammed into me with the force of a freight train.They were afraid.The Overseers—these beings who had rewritten reality like a script, who had erased entire cities without hesitation—were retreating.No, that didn’t make sense. They never ran. They never hesitated. They were the system. They controlled everything. And yet…I took a step forward, testing them. Their forms flickered like static, shifting between existence and nonexistence. The tallest one—the leader—tilted its faceless head toward me, as if reevaluating something.A second later, it took another step back.“They
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Chapter: CHAPTER 95Power Beyond LimitsSomething inside me snapped.Not in a slow, creeping way. Not in a way that I could fight or rationalize. It broke like glass under a hammer, like a dam shattering under the weight of an unstoppable flood.I wasn’t just waking up. I was rewriting reality.The mind prison shattered.The void that had held me collapsed into itself, breaking apart like fragments of a dying star. The pain, the failures, the voices that had haunted me—they burned away, erased by something stronger than doubt.Something stronger than them.Power surged through me, raw and untamed. It wasn’t just strength. It was command.Reality itself bent under my will.I could see it now—the threads of existence, the framework of everything around me. And just like that, I knew.I wasn’t just a piece on the board.I was part of the system itself.Kane’s voice pulled me back. “Tony?”I turned. She was on her feet, watching me carefully. The way someone watches a storm from too close. “What the hell jus
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