All Chapters of The Inheritance Protocol : Chapter 191
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Chapter 180. The Skyline Bleeds
Night fell fast over Crest City. Too fast. As if the day had been cut short by an unseen hand.The clouds that rolled in were thick and strange, glowing faintly at the edges as if light were trapped beneath them. A low hum vibrated through the streets, a sound only a few could hear, a sound like breathing, like a heart pushing electricity through metal veins. And in the shadows below those clouds, Rhea Caulder watched.Her hood was pulled low. Her face was hidden. Her breath fogged faintly in the cold air. She stood on the balcony of an abandoned observatory overlooking the entire city, her hands gripping the rusted rail tightly.Crest City glowed beneath her like a giant circuit board. And tonight it glowed red. Blood-red.Building facades flickered crimson. Streetlights pulsed as if they synced to a heartbeat. Advertisements glitched. Drone lights shimmered. Traffic screens bled with glitching symbols. But the strangest part, the red was uniform. Synchronized.Rhea felt her stoma
Chapter 181. The Forging Of The Vault
The night after the skyline bled red did not bring rest to Crest Tower. It brought movement.It brought whispers. It brought the beginning of something that had no place in the light.Kai Vale did not sleep. He had tried. He had stepped into his private suite, turned off every light, locked every door, and sat on the edge of his bed.But the pulse inside him would not let him rest. Every time he closed his eyes, he felt it, a quiet throb, a soft echo, a whisper beneath the surface of his thoughts.Every time he inhaled, he felt pressure in his chest. Every time he exhaled, he heard something faint, like a voice trying to match his breathing.He pressed a hand against his sternum in the darkness. “Stop,” Kai whispered.The pulse answered. A soft beat. Then another. Then silence.Kai stared at the shadows on the far wall. He stood up and walked to the window. Crest City glowed faintly below him. The red had faded, but the memory of it remained like a bruise across the skyline.He whispe
Chapter 182. The Field Commander
The Vault came alive before the sun rose. Hidden beneath Crest Tower, hidden behind encrypted walls, hidden under layers of silence so deep even Liora could not sense it, a new force had been created. A force born from fear, duty, desperation, and the soft pulsing echo inside Kai Vale’s chest.The Vault’s screens flickered. The servers hummed. Blueprints of secret routes, undercity tunnels, abandoned metro lines, military dead zones, and high-risk data streams appeared on glowing panels.And in the center of that underground chamber stood Eren Vale.He had not slept. He had not blinked for what felt like hours. His hands were still on the table where the system had stamped his name, not as assistant strategist, not as analyst, not as advisor. But as Field Commander.He stared at his name on the projection. He whispered to himself: “Field Commander. That is insane.”Behind him, the elevator door opened. Kai stepped out.His steps were slow but firm. His face was pale, his eyes sharp w
Chapter 183. The Fine Print Of Power
The morning after Eren vanished into the undercity, Crest Tower looked unnaturally calm, as if someone had pressed a hand over the city to silence its heartbeat.But inside the upper floors, inside the heart of Crest’s empire, tension curled in every corner like smoke.Kai Vale sat at the long obsidian conference table, shoulders heavy, eyes fixed on the glowing contract projected in front of him. Thousands of lines of text shimmered across the surface. Every clause was legal. Every paragraph was sharp. Every sentence looked harmless.But Kai knew better. He could feel danger in the polite, elegant way the words were arranged.Liora Tenebris sat across from him, her posture perfect, her hands folded gently on the table. She wore a deep blue dress, simple yet powerful, and her expression was calm, too calm.Beside her stood two Tenebris legal officers, silent as statues.The large room was filled with soft light from the panoramic windows. Outside, the city was waking up slowly, unawa
Chapter 184. The Cover Of A Ghost
Morning light washed over Crest Tower, but nothing about the building felt warm. The sun glared off the glass walls, cold and sharp like a blade pressed against the city’s throat. Inside the tower, the air was tense enough to crack. Kai Vale had not slept. He stood in his office, eyes fixed on three glowing reports hovering in front of him. His hands were clasped tightly behind his back, but the tension in his shoulders made it clear he was holding himself together by force alone.The Vault, his secret army. The Vault, exposed.A leak had spread at dawn, slipping out through a hidden channel, spreading across the private networks used by corporate analysts, political advisors, black-market dealers, and intelligence vultures.A single line of text. No names. No details. Just enough to burn everything.“Crest is funding an unauthorized covert network beneath the Tower.”Before Kai even woke, the world had already tasted blood. Government monitors flagged Crest. Stock markets trembled
Chapter 185. The Exile Who Would Not Stay Silent
The wind outside the old mountain station howled like a wounded creature. Snow pushed against the cracked windows, as if trying to break in. The world outside Rhea Vance felt cold, but the world inside her? It was colder.She sat alone at a metal table, the only light coming from a portable lamp that hummed softly. Her fingers hovered above the datapad, trembling slightly. She would have never admitted it, but the tremble was not from the cold. It came from everything she had lost in one single moment.Kai’s voice kept echoing in her ears. “For your safety, you must go.”The words felt like knives, each one twisting deeper. He did not shout. He did not threaten. That was what made it worse. He sounded calm. He sounded like a man who had already closed a door and locked it forever.Rhea had been loyal. She had served Crest since she was seventeen. She protected Kai even when he refused to protect himself. She believed in him even when the board mocked him. And yet here she was, cast
Chapter 186. The Dreaming Network
Night fell slowly over Crest City, but the lights in Kai’s tower never dimmed. They glowed like a silent warning signal against the black sky, bright and sharp, stretching across the glass of the executive floors. The storm that had passed earlier left the air heavy, as if the whole city held its breath.Inside the core lab, the machines hummed softly, each monitor showing streams of encrypted data.Every few seconds, the lines flickered, bending in strange patterns like threads being pulled by invisible fingers.Kai stood in the center of the room, staring at the large table-sized hologram of the global network grid. It wasn’t supposed to look like this. The structure used to be neat and clear, with straight paths and clean logic. But now the routes twisted in gentle waves, spiraling like living nerves instead of engineered circuits.Kai rubbed his forehead as exhaustion washed over him. He had barely slept in the past few days. Each time he closed his eyes he heard whispers, fai
Chapter 187. The Council Of Shadowed Loyalties
The storm clouds over Crest City had not moved for two days. They hung above the skyline like a silent weight, turning the glass towers gray and dull. The wind pressed against Kai’s headquarters with a low, steady hum, almost like the world itself was whispering through the walls.Inside the executive command hall, the lights glowed dim and pale. The long table stretched across the room, polished until it reflected every face like a blurry shadow. Kai sat at the head of the table, his expression calm, but his eyes carried the exhaustion of sleepless nights.His shoulders were stiff, his breathing controlled, but something in the way his fingers pressed against the armrest revealed the truth.He was tired. He was overwhelmed. He was no longer sure where the world ended and the Whisper Grid began.Around him sat his inner circle, those who claimed to remain loyal, those who whispered warnings, and those who questioned everything.Eren sat to Kai’s right, holding a set of encrypted fil
Chapter 188. The Silence In The Sand
The Sahara Free Zone stretched endlessly beneath the burning sun, a vast desert of gold and bone-white dunes. Nothing lived there except scattered rebel enclaves, old machine graves, and the ghosts of forgotten wars. No one crossed this land unless they were desperate, foolish, or armed with technology powerful enough to bend the sands themselves. The Vault strike team was all three.Their armored transport skimmed over the dunes like a dark blade, engines humming low to avoid satellite detection. Eren Vale stood near the front window, gripping the metal railing as his eyes scanned the horizon. His face was tense, focused, but there was a heavy emotion behind his calm expression, something he did not let the others see.He led the team personally, even though Kai had told him to stay in Crest. The moment reports came in about rogue Crest drones attacking supply routes in the Free Zone, Eren made the decision. This mission needed someone who understood those drones better than any
Chapter 189. The Last Message
The desert wind carried sand across the abandoned base like dry whispers. Dawn was barely rising, the sky still dark blue with streaks of pale silver.Eren Vale stood on the landing pad with his shoulders tight and his jaw clenched. He had not slept since the Sahara mission. The memory of the collapsing basin haunted him with a weight he could not shake.The Vault headquarters stood behind him, buried deep beneath the city. The metal corridors hummed with electricity.Lights flickered from overworked generators. Guards moved fast, whispering updates that none of them understood. Everyone felt it. Something was happening. Something they could not name.Eren stared at the cracked device in his hands, the field recorder retrieved from the Sahara Free Zone only minutes ago.A rescue drone had found it half buried in sand, miles from where the basin collapsed. There were scratches on the metal, the Crest emblem burned almost beyond recognition.The device had only one file. One transmissio