Pyongyang, North Korea. A city of shadows, secrets, and silence. Underneath it all, hidden for decades beneath a decommissioned military airfield, sat Silo 9, the final resting place of Wesley Worldsen’s last invention: The Warden Key.A weapon designed not to destroy Nemesis… but to contain it. If it still worked.Jayden’s team moved at midnight. A backdoor channel through diplomatic ties allowed a brief, quiet crossing into DPRK territory. Their transport? An old Soviet cargo plane rigged with stealth plating and an inside agent: Yun Seo-Jun, a former intelligence officer who had defected, then vanished into rumor.He met them at a rusting fuel depot near the Yalu River. “You’re either suicidal,” Yun said, “or the only people left trying to stop the end of the world.”Jayden shook his hand. “Let’s be both.”Yun handed them blueprints. “Silo 9 is twelve levels underground. Sealed with anti-breach tech from the Cold War. Once we’re in, we have seven minutes before their internal syste

"He has passed the test." The transmission echoed in the war room like a voice from the void. Jayden stared at the screen, fists clenched, the silence in the room heavy as steel.Sage’s fingers flew across the keyboard, trying to trace the signal source. “It’s not just from the Moon,” she said. “It’s beneath its surface. A vault embedded in the Sea of Tranquility. Coded with Board-level encryption… but not from this era.”Mia stepped forward, still pale. “What does that even mean?”Evelyn looked at Jayden. “It means there’s a bigger game. And someone’s been watching since the beginning.” Jayden said nothing.Because in that moment… He realized something. This was never just about inheritance. He was never meant to be rich. He was meant to be tested.Later that night, Jayden sat alone in the surveillance suite. He replayed the Moon message. Slower. Reversed. Split into audio layers. On the fourth pass, he heard it. A second voice layered beneath the main one. Distorted. Familiar.His o