All Chapters of GOD OF WAR: THE SYSTEM OF VENGEANCE : Chapter 61
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Chapter 61- THERES always another way
The restaurant Claire chose for their meeting was neutral ground in the way that Switzerland claimed neutrality while banking Nazi gold. Le Cirque occupied prime real estate in Midtown, the kind of establishment where Manhattan's elite conducted business over meals that cost more than most people's weekly salary.Damon arrived thirty minutes early with Mei Lin, securing a private dining room that had been swept three times for surveillance equipment and twice for supernatural artifacts that might trigger birthmark activation. The security was probably overkill, but ten years of protecting Elena had taught him that paranoia was just pattern recognition with better reflexes."She's here." Mei Lin's voice carried through his earpiece as Claire's hired car pulled up to the restaurant's valet stand. "Isabella with her. Both wearing casual clothes, no visible weapons, no obvious backup."Through the private dining room's one-way glass, Damon watched Claire emerge from the vehicle looking
Chapter 62 - A day to fight hard
The silence that followed felt heavy enough to collapse the building. Elena and Isabella stared at Damon with expressions that mixed confusion and something that might have been fear. He'd spent ten years being Elena's father, her protector, her safe harbor in a complicated world.Now Claire was painting him as the monster her daughters needed protection from."Tell them the rest." Adrian's voice came from the doorway where he'd apparently been listening. "Tell them why you really came back. What your employers actually want."Claire went pale. "Adrian, don't.""They don't want to cure the birthmarks. They want to harvest them." Adrian moved into the room, pulling up documents on his tablet that made Damon's blood run cold. "The suppression treatment doesn't remove divine inheritance. It concentrates it. Stores the power in a crystallized form that can be extracted and used by normal humans."He showed them photographs of vials containing liquid that glowed with the same red light as
Chapter 63- Father and Daughter moment ?
The federal safe house in upstate New York looked like something out of a witness protection catalog. Two stories of reinforced concrete disguised as a suburban home, surrounded by enough surveillance equipment to monitor a small country. Damon had bought the property five years ago under a shell corporation, preparing for threats he'd hoped would never materialize.Now it housed two exhausted ten-year-olds, their mother who'd betrayed them while trying to protect them, and enough security personnel to staff a military base."I want my room back." Elena's voice carried exhaustion that went beyond physical tiredness as Mei Lin showed them the sleeping arrangements. "My bed. My stuff. Not this place that smells like a hospital.""Your room isn't safe anymore. The Covenant knows where we live, where you go to school, everywhere you've been for the past decade." Damon kept his voice gentle despite the frustration building in his chest. "This house has protections your bedroom doesn't.
Chapter 64- How many more
"I'm not trying to make you feel safe. I'm trying to make you capable of protecting yourself when feeling safe stops being an option." He moved to where both girls stood, kneeling so he could meet their eyes at level. "Your birthmarks activated today. That means the power is awake. Dormant right now, but awake. Every strong emotion, every stressful situation, every moment of fear or anger or excitement is going to make it harder to keep the inheritance contained.""So we learn to control it. Use the power instead of letting it use us." Isabella's voice carried determination that suggested Claire's daughter had inherited more than just supernatural genetics. "When do we start?""Tomorrow. But tonight, you sleep. Eat actual food. Remember what being human feels like before we start teaching you how to be something more." He stood, gesturing to Mei Lin to show them to the bedrooms that had been prepared. "And girls? Whatever happens during training, whatever you discover about what y
Chapter 65-Are you ready for what’s to come ?
"That's classified information.""Which means enough that admitting the number would make people uncomfortable." Mei Lin's smile was sharp as broken glass. "We've done our research too, Doctor. Your enhanced human research division has a ninety percent fatality rate for subjects who undergo your power amplification protocols. You're not trying to help god-touched children control their abilities. You're trying to extract those abilities for military applications."Dr. Chen's composure cracked slightly. "That's a gross mischaracterization of our work. The subjects who didn't survive had pre-existing conditions that made them poor candidates for enhancement. We've learned from those early mistakes.""Early mistakes that killed how many children?"The silence that followed felt heavy enough to collapse the building. Williams was studying Damon with expression that suggested she was calculating how much truth to reveal versus how much deception would be required to secure cooperation."S
Chapter 66- Just talk
The old Blackwood estate looked like a monument to family curses made manifest. Dawn light filtered through trees that had grown wild in the decade since the fire, casting long shadows across burnt foundations that still carried scorch marks from the night Kane had tried to erase his nephew's history.Damon stood where his father's study used to be, enhanced vision picking out details that normal eyes would miss. The symbols Mei Lin had mentioned were there, carved deep into stone that predated the house by centuries. Spirals and geometric patterns that suggested indigenous rituals mixed with European occultism, all of it arranged around a central point where power seemed to concentrate."Your ancestor knew what he was doing when he built here." Iris's voice came from behind him, carrying across the clearing with the same confident authority he remembered from five years ago. "This land has been amplifying supernatural inheritance since before Columbus sailed. Makes manifestation ea
Chapter 67- Binding light
"A choice between your training or certain death isn't really a choice." Williams had moved closer, federal authority radiating from her posture. "Which is why we're proposing federal protection with medical oversight. Elena and Isabella would have the best supernatural researchers monitoring their development, the finest medical care managing any complications, and full legal protection from organizations that want to exploit them.""While also providing DARPA with unprecedented access to dual inheritance research." Mei Lin's voice dripped with skepticism. "Let's be honest about what you're offering, Senator. You want to study the girls. Figure out how their power works. Probably try to replicate it for military applications.""We want to understand supernatural capabilities that could threaten human civilization if left uncontrolled." Dr. Chen's clinical tone suggested she saw nothing wrong with viewing children as research subjects. "Yes, that research would have military applic
Chapter 68- Surrender
The clearing fell silent except for equipment beeping as Dr. Chen's sensors went crazy trying to record what they'd just witnessed. Morrison looked like someone had rewritten his understanding of physics. Williams was already calculating how to spin this for congressional testimony.But it was Iris who spoke first, her voice carrying something that might have been pride."That was remarkable. Unprecedented. You two just demonstrated more control during your second manifestation than most god-touched individuals achieve after years of training." She moved closer, studying the girls with professional assessment. "How did you do it? How did you maintain consciousness and control while channeling that much power?""We talked to each other." Isabella's voice carried wonder at the simplicity of it. "Inside our heads. While the power was flowing. Elena kept me grounded when my manifestation wanted to spiral. I kept her focused when the inheritance tried to overwhelm her awareness. Together
Chapter 69- Surrender 2
The dawn light seemed to dim as power built around Victoria's position. Not just her operatives' weapons, but something else. Something that made the carved symbols beneath Elena and Isabella pulse with warning resonance.Iris's students had formed a defensive perimeter, enhanced individuals preparing for combat against an organization that had been hunting their kind for centuries. Williams's federal agents looked hopelessly outmatched, conventional training meaning nothing when facing supernatural warfare. Morrison's delegation was already retreating, apparently deciding that European interests didn't extend to dying on American soil.And Damon stood at the center of it all, feeling his restored power humming through enhanced physiology while he calculated odds that didn't favor anyone except the Covenant.Then Elena spoke, her voice carrying across the clearing with authority that made even Victoria pause."You're right about one thing. Organizations like yours have been shaping c
Chapter 70- They never leave
Three months after the dawn confrontation at the estate, Elena stood in what used to be the burnt-out shell of her great-great-great-grandfather's study, now rebuilt as a state-of-the-art training facility that somehow managed to preserve the ancient symbols carved into its foundation."Again," Iris commanded from her position near the doorway. "This time, don't let Isabella's manifestation pull you into resonance. You need to learn independent control before you can safely merge."Elena's birthmark pulsed with familiar warmth as she reached for her power, feeling it respond like a living thing coiled beneath her skin. Across the room, Isabella was doing the same, their synchronized breathing the only sound in the converted space.The sphere of energy materialized above Elena's palm—smaller than what they'd demonstrated three months ago, more controlled, but also more concentrated. Pure divine power filtered through the knowledge Marcus Aurelius had stored in this site, refined by w