All Chapters of The Useless Son-In-Law Is A System God Of War: Chapter 21
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Chapter 21. Aftershock
The blackout turned Milwaukee into a graveyard of light. For two days, the city lived by candle flame and rumor. Cars moved without signals. Skyscrapers stood like dark monuments. And in the shadows, people whispered a name, The Ghost.Some called him a terrorist. Others called him a savior. No one really knew who he was. Only that the night he appeared, the city nearly died.Inside a police command center lit by generators, Detective Marcus Brooks stared at a map covered in red zones. His face looked older than it had a week ago, the sleepless nights drawing deep lines beneath his eyes.“Half the power grid’s fried,” said the tech beside him. “Hospitals are running on emergency cells. The media’s gone wild. Everyone’s looking for a villain.”Brooks rubbed his temples. “And they found one, didn’t they?”The tech hesitated. “The name’s trending across every platform. Landon Hale.”Brooks froze. “You’re sure?”“Positive. The footage from the Glasshouse explosion resurfaced. His face i
Chapter 22. Claire’s Choice
The storm returned the next morning. Rain hissed down the broken streets of Milwaukee, washing over the wreckage of another power surge. The city looked haunted, dark towers blinking weakly against the gray sky, the rivers glowing faint blue where energy still leaked from the grid.Claire stood on a rooftop, her coat whipping in the wind. She watched the horizon flicker with faint electrical light, the aftermath of The Ghost War.Her comm link crackled. “Agent Claire Monroe,” said a voice, calm and official. “This is Special Director Hale of the Federal Task Force. We’d like a word.”She didn’t answer at first. She stared at the storm clouds curling above the lake. Then she said, “You’ve been trying to track me for days. You found me, didn’t you?”“We didn’t find you,” the voice said smoothly. “You came to us.”The meeting took place in an old government safehouse, the kind that pretended to be a medical clinic. White walls. Dim lights. Smell of disinfectant.Two agents stood at the
Chapter 23. Harrow’s Offer
The forge was gone. By the time Landon climbed from the underground ruins, the tunnels had collapsed behind him. The air smelled of smoke and ozone, and the sky above Milwaukee was still red from the power surges.He stood in the rain, looking at what used to be his refuge, now only rubble and broken wires. His reflection rippled in a puddle, his eyes faintly glowing gold. He didn’t look human anymore.He didn’t feel human either. His voice was calm when he spoke to himself. “Claire made it out.”The Ascension Protocol hummed in his mind, its tone smoother than ever, almost gentle. [Signal traces confirm extraction: Claire Monroe. Status, alive.]He nodded slightly, though his chest ached. Alive. That was enough. He turned and walked north, vanishing into the dark streets where the city’s heartbeat faltered.For two days, Landon disappeared. The media called it The Second Blackout. Half the city was still without power. Reporters filled the airwaves with rumors, that The Ghost had
CHAPTER 24. THE SIEGE OF DATA HEIGHTS
The night sky above Milwaukee looked bruised, dark purple clouds pressed low over the city, streaked by the sharp white beams from sirens and aircraft. The wind carried the metallic smell of storm and smoke. Every skyscraper shimmered with warning lights, and at the center of it all stood Data Heights.A cluster of towering glass buildings that housed some of the largest data cores in the Midwest. Those towers hummed like giants preparing for war.Landon stood on the rooftop of an abandoned parking structure across the river, watching as the first alarms lit up the sky. His coat whipped behind him, scorched at the edges from their last battle. His breathing was steady.But his hands were trembling, not from fear, but from the weight of what he sensed inside the network. Harrow was here. And he wasn’t hiding anymore.Claire ran up beside him, a portable rig strapped to her back. Sweat clung to her hairline. “The Echo Cell breached the outer firewall,” she said breathlessly. “Satellit
CHAPTER 25. SYSTEM OVERLOAD
The moment Landon stepped through the glowing doorway, the world changed. Not slowly. Not gently.It was as if the entire floor collapsed into light. Red streams of code spun through the air like burning ribbons. White sparks drifted down like snow. The walls dissolved into shifting symbols, and the ground beneath his feet felt soft, almost alive, like he was walking on a heartbeat.Claire stumbled behind him, shielding her eyes. “Landon, what is this place?”He didn’t answer at first. Because he wasn’t sure. This wasn’t the physical core of Data Heights anymore. This was a hybrid space, half digital, half real. Harrow had twisted the tower into a new kind of battlefield.A place where thoughts shaped the world just as much as machines did. A realm perfect for destruction. Landon felt the air tighten. His mind buzzed with sharp, electric pain.Integration Spike Detected. Mirror Vision Active.He gritted his teeth. “Stay close to me. Don’t touch anything.”Claire nodded, but her eyes
CHAPTER 26. THE MEMORY WAR
The night split in half. Reality and the system overlapped, tangled like two cracked mirrors forced to reflect each other. One moment the world looked normal, walls, wires, steel beams shaking under stress. The next, everything shimmered into a rippling ocean of code, blue and silver symbols falling like rain.Landon stood between both worlds, his vision flickering, one eye seeing metal, the other seeing pure data.Claire grabbed his arm. “Landon! Stay with me. Your pulse is dropping, ” He didn’t answer. Couldn’t answer. Because inside him, something massive was unfolding.System Integration Reached 100%.Assimilation Protocol: ACTIVE.Landon gasped as a cold, electric force shot through his spine. For a moment, he couldn’t tell whether he was breathing or drowning. His thoughts twisted, multiplying, one voice becoming two, two becoming a storm. Claire watched in fear. “Fight it! Landon, don’t let the system swallow you!”He staggered back, holding his head. “Claire, it’s happening
CHAPTER 27. THE LAST COMMAND
Everything was quiet. Not the soft kind of quiet that comes after rain. Not the peaceful quiet of a sleeping city.This quiet was wrong. It was the kind of silence that felt heavy, like the world was holding its breath, waiting for something terrible, or something divine.Claire slowly opened her eyes. White light surrounded her, pulsing like a living heartbeat. The air tasted like electricity, sharp and metallic. Her voice trembled. “Landon?”No answer. She stood shakily, pushing herself to her feet. She didn’t know where she was, whether this was reality or the digital world or something in-between. The ground looked like cracked glass, and beyond it stretched an endless plain of white fog. “Landon!” she shouted again.The fog stirred. A shadow moved inside it. Claire’s heart raced. She took one step forward, ready to run, ready to fight.And then she froze. Because the one walking toward her wasn’t the Landon she knew. He stepped out of the fog slowly, like a memory returning to l
CHAPTER 28. THE WORLD AFTER
The world woke up in pieces. Lights flickered back to life across nations like scattered stars being reignited after a long night. Screens blinked, machines rebooted, and silent rooms filled with soft mechanical hums. Power grids coughed awake. Satellites stabilized. Hospitals sighed as equipment came back online.Everywhere, people looked around in confusion, awe, and fear, because the sky itself had flashed white, and every device on Earth had displayed the same symbol:A single, glowing blue triangle. Landon’s mark. Claire slowly opened her eyes to a strong antiseptic smell and blinding fluorescent lights. Her throat felt dry, her bones heavy, and her mind foggy. For a moment, she didn’t remember who she was, then, like a wave, everything came crashing back.The digital world. The collapse. Landon’s hand slipping away. His last smile. His final words. Her heart clenched painfully. “Landon,” she whispered.Machines around her flickered at the sound of his name. A monitor beeped fa
CHAPTER 29. ECHO IN THE MACHINE
The world healed slowly. Not with loud celebrations or fireworks, but with soft blue lights pulsing across cities at night, like the Earth itself was breathing again.Everywhere, strange anomalies appeared. A broken traffic system fixed itself in seconds.A corrupted hospital server rebuilt its files overnight. Power grids adjusted automatically, preventing overloads. Children’s toy robots, cheap and old, suddenly hummed with a faint blue glow. People whispered: “The Ghost is still here.”“He didn’t die.”“Landon Hale is watching.”For Claire, it was more than a rumor. It was a promise. She felt him. In every pulse. Every flicker. Every whisper the machines gave off at night, but feeling him wasn’t enough. She needed him back.Three weeks after the Reboot, Claire stood in a cold underground server hall beneath the Reconstruction Authority headquarters. Protective cables hung from the ceiling like metal vines. Giant cooling fans whirred around her.She was alone, by choice. She leane
CHAPTER 30. THE RETURN PROTOCOL
One full year passed. A year of rebuilding. A year of rumors. A year of blue lights moving through cities like silent guardians.People called it the Echo Age now. A time shaped by the ghost of a man who had saved them all.Claire lived inside the Reconstruction Authority’s main research tower, Data Haven One. It rose above the new city skyline, white and smooth like a promise of a better future. Inside, she worked day and night with the remaining Echo Cell and new engineers who believed in Landon’s legacy.But only Claire knew the truth. Landon wasn’t gone. He was waiting, and tonight, the waiting ended.Claire stood inside the deepest lab, the Core Chamber. It was quiet, cold, and lit only by blue strips along the walls. In the center of the room sat a large containment pod made of white alloy, humming softly.Inside it, a human shape rested in a cradle of cables and light. A body she and her team had built over months. Strong, healthy, identical to Landon’s original form, but c