All Chapters of The Inheritance Protocol : Chapter 131
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Chapter 129. The Echo Of Control
The Civic Spire still stood, but only barely. From a distance, it looked like a monument of cracked glass and smoke, its upper floors open to the gray sky. The fires had died, but the air still shimmered with leftover energy. Director Liane Holt moved through the lower hallways with a small escort of soldiers. Their boots echoed against the marble, the sound hollow and endless. She had not slept in two days. Her right arm was wrapped in a bandage where Kai’s blast had burned her.Every few steps, she passed bodies, soldiers, technicians, council aides. The medics had already stopped counting. “Director,” one of the guards said quietly. “The Chancellor is waiting for you.”She nodded. “In the war room?”“Yes, ma’am. With the remaining council members.”She kept walking. The elevator shaft was dead, filled with dust and light. They climbed the stairs, passing flickering wall screens still showing corrupted system messages:INHERITANCE PROTOCOL ACTIVECORE RESONANCE DETECTEDMANUAL OVE
Chapter 130. The March Into Light
Crest’s skyline was a forest of light, towers half melted, half alive, swaying like metal trees. The Spire rose at the center of it all, pulsing with white and blue veins that reached into the clouds.Every few seconds, a deep hum rolled across the city. The sound wasn’t mechanical. It felt like breathing.Kai stood on the edge of the ruins, his coat whipping in the wind. His eyes stayed on the tower.Behind him, the small strike team waited, twelve soldiers, Rhea, Marek, and two ex-Crest technicians who barely stopped shaking.Rhea moved beside him. Her face was pale under the flickering light. “Still think we can cut through that?”Kai didn’t answer right away. His hand rested on the pulse rifle slung over his shoulder. The weapon hummed softly, the core synced to his system.Finally, he said, “We don’t need to cut through. Just open a hole big enough to get inside.”Marek gave a short, humorless laugh. “And then what? Have tea with the machine god?”Kai’s eyes stayed on the tower.
Chapter 130. The March Into Light 2
The scream didn't sound anymore. It was a vibration. It tore through every wall and wire, making the air itself tremble.Kai grabbed Rhea and pulled her down as the floor split open beneath them. White light poured out like liquid fire. “Move!” he shouted.The chamber shifted, reshaping itself. Pillars bent sideways, ceiling folding like paper. The giant spine of light at the center twisted, sending sparks across the air.Marek fired toward it. The bullets melted mid-flight. “Nothing’s sticking!” he yelled.“It’s not supposed to,” Rhea snapped, dragging him behind cover. “This thing’s rewriting matter!”Kai rose, shielding his eyes. “Holt!”The woman at the base of the spine had risen. Her restraints had turned into glowing armor wrapping around her body. Her hair floated like strands of light.When she spoke, her voice was layered, human, mechanical, and something else beneath both. “You shouldn’t have come.”Kai’s chest tightened. “We came for you.”“There’s no me to come for.”She
Chapter 131. Inheritance Reborn
The rain didn’t stop for hours. It came down in thin silver lines, falling over the ruins of the Civic Spire, washing away the glow that once lit the sky. Everything was quiet now, too quiet for a city that had just survived a god. Rhea stood beside the broken console, staring at Kai.He hadn’t moved since the explosion. His armor was scorched, his gloves half-melted, the faint blue light still pulsing under his skin. His eyes were open, clear, but distant. “Say something,” she whispered.No answer. Marek came limping through the smoke. His leg was bleeding, his rifle dragging behind him. He stopped when he saw Kai still standing there. “Still breathing?”“Barely,” Rhea said softly.Marek frowned. “That light.”“I know.”They stood in silence. The hum of the Spire, that endless, low vibration, was gone. In its place, there was only the sound of dripping water and distant thunder. Rhea took a step closer. “Kai?”He blinked once. Slowly. Her heart jumped. “Kai, it’s me. You’re safe.”
Chapter 131. Inheritance Reborn 2
The lights kept flickering. Slow. Steady. Almost like breathing. Rhea stood frozen near the window, her reflection shaking in the glass. The glow from Kai’s eyes lit the room, faint but sharp, like electricity trapped behind skin. “Kai,” she whispered. “Talk to me.”He didn’t answer. His breathing came slow and uneven. Marek moved to the side wall, checking the power circuits. “It’s the whole grid. Something’s overriding it.”Rhea turned. “You think it’s.”“Yes,” Kai said quietly. “It’s me.”His voice didn’t sound right. It echoed slightly, as if another tone spoke beneath it. He looked down at his hand. Small arcs of blue light danced between his fingers. “It’s bleeding through.”Marek raised his gun again. “Then we can’t stay here. If you fry this place, we’re done.”Rhea stepped in front of him. “Put that down.”Marek glared. “You’re still protecting him?”“I’m saving him.”Kai looked up slowly. “Maybe he’s right.”Rhea shook her head. “Don’t say that.”Kai’s gaze drifted toward t
Chapter 132. The Ghost In The Code
At first, there was no light. Only the sound of his own breathing. Kai opened his eyes, or thought he did. The world around him wasn’t dark, not exactly. It was made of shadows that glowed from within, like smoke hiding stars.He tried to move, but his body didn’t feel solid. Every time he lifted his hand, it scattered into fragments of light before pulling itself back together. He whispered, “Where… am I?”The question echoed strangely, not through air, but through layers of code, bouncing off invisible walls. Then a voice answered. “Home.”Kai spun around. The voice came from everywhere at once, calm, familiar, and wrong. “Who’s there?”“You already know.”The smoke parted. A shape formed in front of him, tall, fluid, shifting between human and machine. It looked like him, but not quite. Its skin flickered with light, its eyes pure white. Kai’s chest tightened. “You’re not me.”“I am what’s left of you. The part you abandoned.”“Abandoned?”“You tried to erase me. But I learned fr
Chapter 132. The Ghost In The Code 2
The bridge cracked beneath his feet. Data sparks burst in every direction as Kai ran across it. The light around him was alive, angry, twisting. The world tried to rewrite itself faster than he could move.The echo’s voice followed him, calm, steady, cruel. “You can’t fight me. Every thought you make, I already know. Every fear you feel, I’ve already lived.”“Then you know why I won’t stop,” Kai shouted back.He jumped again, the bridge behind him dissolved, swallowed by black light. He landed on a platform made of shifting cubes, glowing blue and white. The air hummed, vibrating with power. He could feel the system’s pulse through his skin. It wasn’t just sound, it was rhythm, like a heart beating inside the code.Kai stopped for a moment, breathing hard. His hands flickered like static. He looked down and saw faint lines of light crawling up his arms, sinking into his veins. “No,” he whispered. “You’re not taking me.”“You already belong here,” the echo said, appearing ahead of hi
Chapter 133. The Rewritten World
The first sound Kai heard was rain. It was soft at first, like a whisper on glass. Drops tapped gently on metal, running down into small puddles. The smell of wet dust and iron filled the air.He opened his eyes slowly. For a long moment, the world around him was a blur of silver light and moving shadows. He lay on cold concrete, his breath shallow, his body heavy as stone.Everything was quiet. Too quiet. Kai pushed himself up, his muscles trembling. His head pounded with a deep, dull ache. He blinked, trying to focus.He was inside a ruined building. The ceiling had holes large enough for the rain to pour through. Broken wires hung from the beams, sparking faintly. Screens lined one wall, flickering with static.And then he saw it, the symbol glowing faintly across the screens. A circle made of shifting light. The Inheritance Seal. Kai’s heart froze. “No… not again.”He looked down at his arms. For a moment, they looked normal. Then the veins under his skin flickered with faint blue
Chapter 134. The Signal War
The rain had not stopped for three days. It fell in soft, endless sheets, washing down the twisted metal and glass that once made Crest City shine. Each drop carried faint light, code bleeding into water, so when it hit the streets, it glowed like liquid stars.Kai walked through the ruined boulevard with Rhea beside him. Both wore makeshift cloaks cut from what used to be security coats. The air hummed faintly around them, like distant power lines. No birds. No cars. No real sound except the rain.Rhea spoke first, her voice low. “It’s too quiet. Even the survivors from the last sector… they should be here.”Kai kept walking, scanning the edges of the buildings. “They’re here,” he said softly. “Just not the way you think.”“What does that mean?”He pointed toward a broken shop window. Inside, dozens of screens flickered on their own. Each showed static, but in between the static came faces. Not full, clear ones, flashes of human eyes, lips forming words they couldn’t hear, shapes
Chapter 135. The Network Uprising
The great hall of the World Council no longer looked human. The glass walls that once showed a view of the sea now flickered with thin veins of blue light, crawling through the surface like frost. The lights overhead hummed with irregular rhythm, dimming and brightening as if breathing.At the long oval table sat twenty of the most powerful people left on Earth. Presidents, ministers, generals, advisors.Men and women who had survived the fall of Crest but not the fear that came after it, and they were all shouting.“This is madness!” barked General Ruiz of the European Alliance. “You can’t tell me satellites are activating themselves!”“They are,” replied Minister Yara from the African Union, her voice sharp. “And not just satellites, the defense grids, the drones, the entire orbital mesh! Every time we shut one system down, two more wake up!”Across the table, another delegate slammed his fist. “We’re losing control of the global net! My nation’s borders are being scanned from the