All Chapters of The Useless Son-In-Law Is A System God Of War: Chapter 41
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Chapter 41
The captured mercenary sat chained to the chair, breathing hard. His skin was pale and slick with sweat. His eyes twitched from the serum withdrawal crawling through his nerves.The interrogation room was cold and silent. A single hanging light flickered above the metal table. Landon stood across from him, arms crossed, jaw tight. Navarro watched from the corner, leaning against the wall with his arms folded. Claire sat at the computer nearby, monitoring the mercenary’s biometrics. The machine beeped in a slow, nervous rhythm.Priya entered with a tablet pressed against her chest. “He’s stabilizing,” she said softly. “The serum is burning out. He should talk now.”The mercenary lifted his head. His voice shook. “You people, you don’t understand what you stepped into.”Landon stepped closer. “Then show us. Talk.”The man swallowed hard. His eyes darted nervously to the corners of the room as if something invisible lurked in the shadows. “The shipments, the tech, the serum, it’s all mov
Chapter 42
Inside the Vanguard hub, the team gathered around the central table. Holographic screens hovered above the surface, showing maps, names, and lines that connected districts like a spider web.Navarro pointed at one of the larger red zones. “Corruption is spreading faster than we expected. Someone is pulling strings in every district. We need a way into the high-level meetings. We need proof.”Priya pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “I can get into one,” she said. Her voice was calm, but her eyes burned with focus. “The elites have a private gathering tonight. Politicians. Businessmen. Security brokers. They call it the Circle of Accord. No one outside the circle is allowed inside.”Jin raised an eyebrow. “You’re sure you want to do this? These people don’t negotiate. They erase problems.”Priya gave a soft, controlled smile. “I will not be erased.”Landon watched her closely. “We will be right behind you,” he said. “But be cautious. These elites are not just rich. They are despera
Chapter 43
The Vanguard stood on the rooftop of a deserted parking structure. The city’s tallest luxury skyscraper, the Nightglass Tower, rose across the street like a dark blade cutting into the sky. Its windows reflected only faint stars, hiding everything inside.Landon stood at the edge of the roof, staring straight at the building. “This tower belongs to a foundation that pretends to help the city,” he said quietly. “But inside, they hide something. Something connected to the smugglers and the elites.”Claire nodded as she pulled up a digital map. “Their public floors are for charity offices and donor suites. But the files we stole show private floors with encrypted access. Labs. Detention rooms. Things that should not exist in a foundation building.”Navarro checked his gear, his movements steady and practiced. “We go in clean. No noise. No witnesses.”Jin sat on a metal crate, tapping on his tablet. His face glowed under the screen. “Security grid is active. Cameras, motion sensors, pressu
Chapter 44
Marcus Hale stood under an old metal awning near the Milwaukee River docks. He kept his hood low and his hands deep in his jacket pockets. His breath came out in thin white clouds. He looked like a man waiting for a ghost.Rain fell over Milwaukee like a heavy gray curtain. The sky felt low and crowded, as if it wanted to crush the whole city under its weight. The streets were slick with thin rivers of water that glowed under streetlights. Every building looked tired, every corner held some kind of shadow.Landon approached him from behind, footsteps soft in the rain. “You said you had something,” Landon said.Marcus did not turn around. “I do. But you won’t like it.”“That’s normal lately,” Landon said gently. “Let’s hear it.”Marcus finally turned. His eyes were red, either from the cold or from something deeper. “The fighters I know, the underground ones, they’ve been hearing things. Rumors. Whispers. And not small stuff. Big things. Dangerous things.”Landon kept his voice calm. “
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Landon, Claire, Priya, Navarro, Jin, and Marcus crouched behind a tall row of crates. Their breath came out in white puffs. Each of them carried gear, weapons, and the strain of knowing this night could change everything.Marcus wiped his palms against his pants. He felt the cold, but deeper than that he felt something burning inside him, fear mixed with a stubborn fire.“This is Dock 17,” Priya whispered, checking her tablet. “The logs were right. The ship will unload here.”Navarro scanned the shadows. “Anyone see movement?”Jin whispered, “Thermals picking up only the six of us so far.”Landon looked at Marcus. “You know the underground routes better than all of us. Anything feel off?”Marcus took a slow breath and closed his eyes for a second. The scents, the sounds, the faint vibrations of trucks rolling closer, he studied all of it like a fighter reading an opponent.Then he opened his eyes. “Something is wrong.”Priya’s head snapped toward him. “What do you mean?”Marcus pointed
Chapter 46
Landon felt it in his bones the moment he stepped onto the rooftop of the old brewery building. The wind pushed cold air across his face. Below him, the south side glowed with red and blue police lights. Fires burned in small clusters, each one a sign of a turf fight that had exploded hours earlier.Navarro joined him on the rooftop, adjusting his tactical vest. “Territories are breaking apart,” he said. “The gangs are eating each other alive.”Landon watched two cars speed down the street, guns sticking out of the windows. “Or being forced to.”Navarro nodded grimly. “Forced is the right word.”Downstairs, Claire’s voice echoed faintly through the stairwell. “Everyone inside now,” she called. “We have updates.”Landon and Navarro rushed back into the building, feet pounding down the metal steps until they reached the old storage room the team had turned into a planning hub. The air smelled like dust and hot wires. Maps and screens lit the walls.Priya, Jin, Marcus, and Claire stood i
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The Vanguard sat gathered in the main safehouse, all staring at the strange metal plate Jin had placed in the center of the table. It was the three-snake emblem they had taken from the crate at the docks. The metal seemed older than the city itself, carved with precision that did not match any modern tool, and every time someone looked at it too long, it felt like the snakes were breathing.Jin stood beside the table with his tablet in hand. His glasses reflected the screen as he typed, his fingers quick and sharp. “I finally cracked it,” he said softly. “This emblem isn’t just a symbol. It’s an identification mark. And it’s not new. It comes from an abandoned supersoldier program run by the Syndicate. It was called Project GORGON.”Priya lifted her head sharply. She had been pacing the room like a trapped cat for the past hour, her nervous energy growing stronger every minute. “Jin,” she said, “I thought GORGON was destroyed. Every file we have says the test subjects went insane. T
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Landon led the team forward with quiet, careful steps, his hand resting on the grip of his weapon, his senses open and stretched like a net.Jin walked beside him with his tablet pressed to his chest. “The convoy should be close,” he whispered. “They turned off all trackers, but I picked up heat signatures. Three transport trucks. Heavily armored.”Priya moved ahead a few steps, checking corners and shadows. Her eyes were sharp, thin lines of focus. “Whoever runs this convoy,” she said, “knows how to disappear. Every informant we talked to refused to say anything. They are terrified.”Marcus scoffed, trying to sound bold. “People are scared of everything these days.”Priya shot him a look. “This is different. They said the convoy belongs to Wolfe’s people.”The words hung in the air like frost. Landon felt the shift in the team. Every step became slower. Every breath felt heavier. The entire city had been whispering about Wolfe, but this was the first time they were about to face some
Chapter 49
The tall hotel shimmered with bright lights and expensive glass, but beneath its beauty was a deep, rotten smell of fear. Tonight the building hosted a private summit of the city’s richest and most powerful leaders, a meeting that was not listed on any schedule, public record, or news outlet. Priya had discovered it only because three of her informants vanished in one night after whispering about it. The team stood near a loading dock where shadows covered everything.Landon adjusted his vest and looked at the others. “No loud moves. No sudden noise. We get in, we listen, we expose them, and we get out.”Navarro nodded slowly as he loaded his gear. “These people think they run the city. Tonight we learn what they are planning.”Claire held a small wrist device and checked the timer. “We have a narrow window. Security patrols change every twelve minutes. We move exactly when I say move.”Marcus leaned against a wall, arms crossed tight over his chest. His jaw flexed, his eyes tense. “
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Landon stepped out of the SUV first. His boots sank into wet gravel. He listened to the wind scraping across the empty yard and felt the wrongness in his bones. The Syndicate outpost they were supposed to hit tonight looked dead from the outside, too still, too silent. That made him uneasy.Claire moved beside him, eyes sharp behind her wet bangs. “No guards. No alarms. This is not right,” she whispered.“It is a trap,” Jin said softly as he shut the SUV door. “Everything about this place is screaming it.”But Navarro shook his head. “We push in. Intel says mid-level bosses are inside. We cannot walk away.”Marcus gave a quick nod. “I say we hit fast and hit clean. If anyone is here, they won’t expect us.”Landon said nothing. The air itself felt wrong. It pulsed at the edge of his senses like something breathing.The team advanced in a tight formation toward the warehouse doors. Priya dropped a small drone that drifted ahead, its soft blue light gliding through the dark. The drone sl