All Chapters of Debtbound: The Price of Power: Chapter 21
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Chapter Twenty: The Mirror Citadel
The Citadel wasn’t built to keep people out.It was built to keep something in.From a distance, it looked like a city inside a crystal—towers of polished obsidian and glass rising in perfect symmetry, their surfaces reflecting the world in warped fragments. Even the storm clouds above bent strangely, caught in the Citadel’s mirrored illusion. But Aria knew the truth: the beauty was a lie. Beneath those reflective walls lay the Enclave’s deepest prison… and its oldest secret.The rebels called it The Mirror Citadel because once you entered, you faced not just enemies… but yourself.Resistance Staging Point – Perimeter RidgeAria’s ribs still ached from the uplink fight. She was wrapped in torn bandages, her jacket smelling faintly of smoke. Ash crouched beside her on the overlook, scanning the Citadel with a battered monocular.“Patrols at every gate,” he muttered. “Perimeter drones on thirty-second loops. And those mirrored walls? Not just for show—they’re projecting refracted decoy
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Shattered Citadel
The air above the Iron Wastes burned with a strange, unnatural hue, a sickly green shimmer that bled across the storm clouds. Those who had marched this far—the rebels, the outcasts, the wanderers who had sworn themselves to the Dust Rebellion—stopped at the sight before them.The Citadel rose like a wound in the earth. Once a fortress of unyielding steel, it now stood fractured, its towers half-collapsed, walls splintered and bleeding molten veins of metal. The Dominion had not simply abandoned it; they had turned it into a weapon. Arcs of energy lashed between broken spires, tearing holes in the sky itself.Kai tightened his grip on the Forgotten Blade. The weapon pulsed faintly, as though sensing what awaited inside. His chest tightened, not from fear but from the weight of inevitability.“We go in there?” Marlowe asked, voice ragged from days of marching. His mask was cracked, one eye exposed to the dust winds. “That place looks more like a grave than a fortress.”“It is both,” Ny
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Chapter Twenty-Two: Ashes of Dawn
The city of Bastion’s Reach did not sleep. Even after the rebellion’s first spark lit the streets and the storm over the steel spires threatened to break, the city still breathed like a restless beast. Its alleys whispered. Its towers hummed with hidden transmissions. Its skies, thick with storm-clouds and the metallic scent of ozone, promised more than rain.Kai stood on the high balcony of the Spirefront, wind tearing at his coat, eyes fixed on the endless ocean of fire-lit streets below. The rebellion was no longer whispers in the dark — it was roaring now, with gunfire echoing from the southern wards, with drones falling like locusts swatted out of the sky. The Dust Rebels had seized their first ground, but ground was never enough.“Storm’s breaking faster than we thought.” Ava’s voice was sharp, clipped, as she joined him. Her gauntlet flickered with a holographic map — entire districts pulsed red with chaos. “The Hive will react with full force within the hour.”Kai turned, meet
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