The air inside the warehouse turned suffocating.Heat coiled around Carl like a living thing, the ground beneath his feet cracked, and the faint glow in his eyes deepened into something far more dangerous.Kael Virex straightened from the railing above, his calm smile never quite leaving—but his eyes… his eyes were sharp now.Interested.“So,” Kael murmured, stepping forward. “That’s the reaction I was waiting for.”Carl didn’t answer.He moved.In an instant, he shot upward—leaping toward the metal walkway with explosive force.BOOM.The railing bent under the impact as Carl’s fist came crashing down—But Kael wasn’t there.A blur.A shift.Carl’s strike shattered steel.Kael reappeared a few steps away, hands casually behind his back.“Fast,” he commented lightly.Carl turned, his gaze locked onto him.“Where is she?”Kael tilted his head. “Still alive.”A pause.“For now.”Carl vanished again.This time—faster.More precise.His fist cut through the air toward Kael’s chest—But Kae

Seraphine Drax slipped off her white coat as she walked out of her laboratory, her movements calm—almost leisurely—despite the chaos beginning to unfold around her.Kael was already there, waiting, hands tucked into his pockets.“You really sent him here, huh?” Seraphine said, irritation clear in her voice. “Did you forget how valuable my experiments are?”Kael simply shrugged. “You took his fiancée. He would’ve found this place eventually.” A faint smirk formed. “You know him.”Seraphine rolled her eyes. “Whatever.”She tapped something near her ear.“Evacuate everything,” she ordered coldly.A voice responded immediately from the other end. “How about the woman, Mistress?”Seraphine paused for a brief moment.Then—“Leave her,” she said without hesitation. “It’s already done.”A slow smirk spread across her lips.“Tell Duane to handle our visitor.”She cut the line.Kael glanced at her, curious. “You injected her already?”“Of course,” Seraphine replied, almost amused. “It would be