All Chapters of THE HIDDEN HEIR'S VENGEANCE: Chapter 51
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CHAPTER 51 : Architect of Wealth
Matthew slammed his fist into the giant’s chest. A white explosion consumed everything.[CRITICAL ERROR IN ENEMY.][Logical System Collapse.][Cause: Infinite Variable (Human Soul).]The giant shattered into countless fragments, exploding into harmless digital dust. The red sky faded into calm blue.In the silence that followed, a new dialog box appeared. Not the usual blue interface. This one was radiant gold.[THREAT ELIMINATED.][System Evaluation: User has successfully unified machine logic and human heart.][System Evolution Initiated.][LEVEL UP.][Unlocked Level: MASTER ARCHITECT, INFINITY.]***In the real world,“MATTHEW!”Everyone in the room shouted as Matthew suddenly jolted upright in his chair, gasping for air as if he had just surfaced from deep water. He tore the neural headset from his head and threw it onto the floor.“Matt!” Viviane wrapped her arms around his neck, sobbing. “You’re back. Oh God, you’re back.”Matthew felt pain everywhere. His muscles were cramping.
CHAPTER 52 : A New Challenge
Its color was neither the standard blue nor the warning red. It was Cosmic Purple.[SYSTEM WARNING: NEW ANOMALY DETECTED.]Matthew froze. His smile slowly faded, replaced by a sharp focus that immediately made Viviane alert.“What is it?” Viviane asked, sensing the shift in energy in the room.“The system just detected a signal,” Matthew murmured. “Not from Earth. Not from the London or Tokyo markets.”He moved his hand and expanded the holographic display. This time, it was not a map of Earth. It was a map of the solar system. A jagged line graph appeared, originating from beyond the asteroid belt.[Signal Analysis: Encrypted Financial Data Transaction.][Origin: Extraterrestrial, Proxima Centauri Star System.][Nature: Predatory Capital Flow.][Translated Message: “Earth has reached Level 1 Wealth Threshold. Initiating Galactic Acquisition Protocol. ”]Matthew’s heart pounded. Not from fear, but from a sensation he had not felt in a long time. A challenge.For the past year he had f
CHAPTER 53 : The Birthday Party of the Former King
The Plaza Hotel, Grand Ballroom,The room was filled with the scent of expensive Cuban cigars, haute couture perfume, and decades old wine. Crystal chandeliers cast golden light across silk gowns and perfectly tailored tuxedos worn by New York’s elite tycoons gathered that night.The clink of crystal glasses blended with the soft melodies of a string quartet playing in the corner. Robert Watson, the former king of real estate who was now struggling to remain relevant, celebrated his sixtieth birthday with a display of forced extravagance.Matthew entered with Viviane at his side. The aura of intimidation surrounding him caused nearby conversations to fade for a moment. He was no longer just a billionaire. He stood at the very top of the food chain.Matthew stepped inside wearing a perfectly tailored black bespoke Tom Ford tuxedo that fit his solid frame flawlessly. Viviane walked gracefully beside him, her arm linked with his. Their presence seemed to freeze part of the room’s convers
CHAPTER 54 : Planetary Defense Board
The underground conference room, buried fifty meters beneath ARC Tower, had been designed to withstand a nuclear explosion. The walls were layered with titanium, carbon, and tungsten steel half a meter thick.The air felt cold and sterile, broken only by the low hum of supercomputer servers processing trillions of data points every second. This was the heart of ARC Corporation, a place even the president of the country did not know existed.At the obsidian round table, three people sat waiting, their tension clearly visible. Caleb, the head of technology. Veronica Wu, the financial strategist wearing a flawless white blazer. And Hector Alvarez.Matthew sat at the end of the table, rubbing his left arm, which still pulsed with pain. Across from him, the three most important people in his business empire studied the holographic data with different expressions.Veronica Wu stood up, the thin frame of her glasses reflecting blue light. The Asian woman in the sharp gray blazer had eyes as
CHAPTER 55 : Whispers in the Isolation Cell
But the voice that answered him was not a human voice from outside the cell.It was a digital voice echoing directly inside his mind. Not through his ears, but resonating straight through his auditory nerves. The sound was metallic and hoarse, wrapped in digital static, cold, distorted, and completely emotionless.[“Subject : Julian Vance. Species : Human. Status : Broken.”]Julian’s eyes widened in terror. He crawled backward until his spine struck the cold wall.“Who’s there?! Where are you?!”[“Julian Vance. We have been observing you.”]Julian backed away until his shoulders hit the damp stone wall. “Who are you?! Guards! Guards!”[“Stop shouting, primate. No one can hear you. We hacked the frequency of your pacemaker using residual microwave waves from the communication satellites your species abandoned.”]“Is... is this God?” Julian whispered, his eyes widening with madness. “Or the devil?”[“We are your new investors,”] the voice replied coldly. [“The entity you call Proxima Br
CHAPTER 56 : Vincent Chen’s Trial
At that exact moment, every red screen inside Vincent’s room suddenly turned bright green. The warning alarms stopped.Vincent, who had nearly been crying in despair, stared at the monitors. His eyes widened, his mouth hanging open.“What... what just happened?” Vincent stared at the monitors in disbelief.“Where did this money come from? Two hundred billion dollars just swept the market in massive buy positions! Nickel and lithium prices are surging! The short sellers have just been squeezed dry!”Vincent’s eyes bulged. “The price has stabilized... it’s even rising five percent? Boss... you... you reversed the entire situation in fifteen seconds? How did you do it?”Across the screen, Matthew inhaled deeply, steadying his wildly racing heartbeat. The burning sensation in his chest slowly faded.“I told you, Vincent. Do not panic,” Matthew said coldly. A faint mist escaped his breath due to his dropping body temperature. “Alien or not, if they play in my market, I will slaughter them.
CHAPTER 57 : Let the game begin
The next day,The morning sky over New York City looked like a dirty gray curtain, as if it were hiding the sun from the city’s grandeur. Inside the penthouse of Holt Tower overlooking the vast stretch of Central Park, Reginald Holt stood in the middle of the room with a glass of champagne in his hand.A bespoke suit worth twenty thousand dollars wrapped around his aging but still upright frame. On his desk, a dozen screens displayed real estate market charts plunging in a violent freefall.The anomalous fluctuations caused by the silent infiltration of the Proxima Syndicate had shattered the value of commercial property across the entire East Coast.The phone on his desk rang sharply. Holt immediately pressed the speaker button.“Holt. Stop purchasing properties in the eastern sector immediately." Matthew Thomas’s cold voice echoed through the room.Holt laughed dismissively, slowly sipping his champagne.“Matthew Thomas. The great architect himself. Why? Are you afraid I’ll dominate
CHAPTER 58 : The Prison Break
Inside Nexus, Matthew Thomas stood with his eyes closed. In his hands lay the power of ARC Infinity, which he had just activated.[ARC Infinity Activation.][Target: Reginald Holt’s Business Empire.][Manipulating Market Probability.][Price to be Paid: Loss of 30% Sensory Perception of Hearing and Vision for 24 Hours.]Matthew’s vision instantly blurred. A harsh ringing filled his ears, muting the sounds around him. The man had to brace himself against the wall to keep from falling. This was the price of being the architect. Absolute power demanded absolute sacrifice.“Destroy him,” Matthew ordered hoarsely, ignoring the pain. “Proxima wants to use Holt to weaken our economy. Cut off the infected limb before it spreads. Zero out his portfolio.”Within four brutal hours, Reginald Holt’s fortune, once worth tens of billions of dollars, evaporated into digital dust. Banks seized all his assets. FBI officers and IRS agents kicked down the doors of the Holt Tower penthouse.Holt, his clot
CHAPTER 59 : Burning Paper Money
That night, a massive storm was battering Manhattan. Lightning tore through the dark New York sky, followed by thunder that rattled the bulletproof windows on the eightieth floor of ARC Tower.Yet the true tension that night did not come from the violent weather outside but from the rows of giant holographic screens in the command room that suddenly flickered blood red.“Mr. Thomas! You need to see this. Right now!” Caleb Foster shouted from behind his server desk. His voice cracked, unable to hide the panic tightening in his throat. His hands trembled over the mechanical keyboard.Matthew Thomas slowly set down his coffee cup. His face was as cold as ice, though his jaw tightened as he walked toward Caleb.“What are the numbers, Caleb? Do not make me guess.”“This makes no sense, Boss. It is completely beyond reason!” Caleb’s fingers flew across the controls, opening dozens of data windows at once. “The Tokyo stock market just crashed ten thousand points in three seconds. London has
CHAPTER 60 : The Breakwater
An oppressive silence settled over the ARC Tower penthouse, broken only by the roar of the storm outside and the low hum of cooling fans from the quantum supercomputer in the corner of the room. Matthew’s statement had just dropped a mental bomb on the two people standing before him.“You are insane, Matt. That is pure financial suicide!” Viviane slammed both hands onto the glass table. Her eyes locked onto Matthew as her chest rose and fell with restrained emotion. “You want us to shut down SWIFT? Visa? Mastercard? The central banks? All of them?”“It is the only way, Vie,” Matthew replied calmly as he pulled a handkerchief from his jacket pocket and pressed it to the corner of his eye, which was still leaking traces of capillary blood.“They are attacking at the speed of light. Proxima’s algorithm spreads like a virus. If we do not shut down the network now, Earth will not have an economy by morning. Paper money will become firewood.”“So we shut down the entire global banking syste