All Chapters of The Contract Ex-Husband of Wealthy Widow: Chapter 91
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Chapter 91: The Fallen Guardian
"Shoot, Raka! Now! Don’t let my sacrifice go to waste on this bridge, dammit!" Kaleb shouted, his voice hoarse, defying death in the middle of a free fall.Kaleb was clutching the metal body of the Child with the remaining hydraulic strength of his melting armor. They were both drifting in the air, falling toward the darkness of the Megalo River, which was tilted from warped gravity. The Child roared in fury, its silver hands trying to tear Kaleb’s throat open, but Kaleb only tightened his grip as if they were a couple about to die together. On the bridge, Raka lay sprawled out, his right hand reaching toward the sky, shaking violently as he held back a surge of energy that was starting to char his palm."I can’t do it, Kaleb! I can’t shoot you!" Raka roared, silver tears erupting from behind the bandages covering his blind eyes."You have to, you bastard! If this thing doesn’t blow up now, Seraph will have admin access to your brain forever!" Kaleb fired back through a distorted radi
Chapter 92: Subject 07’s Rampage
"Raka, wake up, damn it, don’t let that thing crawl into your nerves!" Julianna screamed while trying to pull Raka’s body away from the smoldering crater.Raka didn't answer, his body was shaking violently on the tilted asphalt. The leftover liquid metal from the destroyed Child wasn't evaporating, instead, it was crawling like thousands of silver worms toward the hole in Raka’s chest and his shattered left eye. This was the Final Merging, an emergency protocol triggered by the Child who refused to die alone. Raka let out a piercing scream, but his voice was no longer human, it was a high-frequency roar that cracked Julianna’s tactical helmet visor."Julianna, get back, Raka’s biometric signal is off the charts, that’s not him anymore!" Leo shouted over the radio, his voice trembling with fear as he watched the graphs on his backup tablet spike into the red.Suddenly, the silver vapor venting from Raka’s pores turned pitch black. A thick aura of darkness enveloped his body, warping th
Chapter 93: Tears Behind The Armor
"Shut up and stay still, Raka! You’re just an antenna I have to fix so this purge signal doesn't glitch out!" Elena snapped as she dragged Raka’s bloodied body through the porcelain corridors of the New Citadel.Raka winced, feeling the cold, bionic pavement of the Citadel scrape against his already shattered back. "If I’m just an antenna, you might as well pawn me off at a junk shop, Elena. My scrap value is probably worth more than my dignity right now.""Shut your mouth! You have no idea how vital your position is to this symphony!" Elena fired back, her voice hitting a high, shrill pitch, though the hand clutching Raka’s tuxedo collar trembled ever so slightly."Vital for you, or for the silver demon currently nesting in your brain?" Raka asked, his voice sounding like sandpaper because his throat was still clogged with silver vapor residue.Elena didn't answer. She kicked open the sensor-activated door of a private room at the end of the hall. She tossed Raka’s body onto a medica
Chapter 94: Julianna’s Dilemma
"Reporting, Commander! Sector Zero is cleared, but Subject 07’s biometric pulse has vanished again!" Sergeant Arka’s voice exploded in Julianna’s earpiece, shattering the painful silence on the bridge.Julianna squeezed the scrap of Kaleb’s leather jacket, still warm in her palm. Her bloodshot eyes stared at the crater that had incinerated her best friend, realizing that the true hero had died a traitor in the eyes of the world while she stood there in a uniform soaked in the blood of the man she loved."Wipe all recordings of this crater, Arka. Leave no trace that Kaleb was ever here. That’s an order," Julianna replied, her voice sounding raspy yet cold, as if her heart had frozen into a block of digital ice."But Commander, Seraph demanded detailed visual reports for death verification," Arka argued, his voice carrying a thin veil of doubt."Do you want me to fire you or shoot you on the spot, huh? Do it now, damn it!" Julianna barked, cutting the comms before Arka could say another
Chapter 95: The Gates of the New Citadel
"Do you eat iron or something? You are heavy as hell!" Sena complained. Sena struggled to pull the back collar of Raka's shirt. Raka crawled slowly on the cold steel floor. Fresh blood dripped from the torn wound on his stomach, leaving a long, bloody red trail from the throne room to the main hallway. "I just got beaten up by a mutant bear monster, babe," Raka said. "Don't call me babe when you are dying. It is disgusting, you know," Sena replied. "Actually, being at death's door is exactly when I need your affection so I can heal faster," Raka teased. Raka coughed softly, spitting up leftover blood. He held his stomach, which felt like it was on fire. His breathing was ragged. The energy control center that was their destination was still a few yards ahead. "Just keep quiet. The more you talk, the faster you will actually die," Sena scolded. Sena wiped the sweat off her forehead. She put her arm around Raka's shoulder and helped him stand up slowly. They limped down the dim ha
Chapter 96: Climbing the Black Sky
"Are you out of your mind? We are literally in deep space!" Sena screamed.Raka tightened his grip on the cold steel pillar of the tower's outer wall. "If we went inside, the Citadel's defense lasers would have turned us into ash by now. Just stay quiet and hold on tight.""Hold on how? My hands are seriously cramping up!" Sena shot back.Raka took a deep breath. He glanced back slightly at Sena, who was clinging to his back. The energy shield of the Sang Anak emitted a dim blue glow. The light enveloped them both, protecting them from the freezing temperatures of the exosphere and manipulating artificial gravity so their blood wouldn't boil in the vacuum of space. However, the energy was depleting fast."Then wrap your arms tightly around my waist. Don't let go," Raka said.Sena scoffed. "You are just taking advantage of the situation.""What advantage? We are climbing the tower of death right now. You should be grateful I even brought you along," Raka said.Raka smirked as he felt S
Chapter 97: The Empty Space in the Goddess's Heart
"Wake up, hey! Do you want to die soaking in this damn tank?" Elara snapped.Elara banged hard on the glass of the giant incubator tube where Elena's real body was submerged in the rebel's underground base. However, the white-haired girl inside just floated passively, her eyes shut tight with neural cables plugged into the back of her neck."The system is getting more chaotic. That red doomsday web from the exosphere peak has already started hacking into her mind server!" Elara exclaimed in panic."Then just pull the cables right now before her brain actually gets fried," Kael replied.Kael pulled the emergency lever roughly, but the monitor screen just flashed red, displaying a fatal warning. Kael cursed and kicked the steel console in front of him."Don't be crazy. If we force it out while her mind is still in the digital world, she will be in a coma for the rest of her life," Elara warned.Meanwhile, deep inside the cyber space of Elena's mind, everything felt different. Elena stoo
Chapter 98: Dialogue Between Two Killers
"Can you get up? Or do you want me to just slash you right there?" Elena threatened.Elena kicked a piece of broken glass at her feet. Raka lay flat on his back in the middle of a crater in the ruined ground-floor Greenhouse of the Citadel. Fresh blood flowed from his temple. The giant glass roof above them had a gaping hole from the impact of Raka's body falling from the exosphere tower peak. All around them, real roses began to wither and emit a horrifying red glow, exposed to the radiation of the doomsday web now in the air."Just be a little patient. I literally just fell from outer space, my back feels like it is about to break," Raka groaned.Raka forced himself to sit up while clutching his chest. His breathing was ragged. He remembered when the winged clone tackled him at the summit airlock. Raka was forced to blow up the room's wall so the clone would be thrown down with him, giving Sena time to hack the Red Web transmitter up there."Save your excuses. I already know everyth
Chapter 99: Leo's Trojan Horse Strategy
"Are you crazy? My brain is only filled with muscles and past memories, not computer codes!" Leo yells.Leo deflects a laser projectile with a metal chair he forcefully rips from the floor. Sparks fly across his arm. Julianna takes cover behind the main console of the Neo-Genesis room while shooting at two defense drones hovering in the air."Just sit in that neural chair and let me plug this cable into the back of your neck, babe. Otherwise, we are both going to turn into human skewers in this room," Julianna replies."I am a frontline soldier, not some nerdy hacker. How am I supposed to fight inside a digital world?" Leo asks.Julianna shoots down one drone until it explodes into pieces. She runs toward Leo and grabs the muscular man's collar to make him sit on the neural link chair."Your physical body is incredibly strong enough to handle the processor load of the Seraph Mainframe. You just need to get in there and cause chaos from the inside. Be our Trojan Horse," Julianna explai
Chapter 100: The Buried Truth of the Origin Project
"If you are going to die, do not fall on me. You are way too heavy!" Sena screams.Sena kicks the body of the winged clone that suddenly convulses and dies completely on top of her. Electrical sparks shoot out from the killing machine's neck. Raka, who is still panting while leaning against the ruined wall, immediately lets out a sigh of relief. The Citadel's security system seems to have just suffered massive internal damage thanks to Leo's actions."Thank Julianna's boyfriend for glitching this base out. Come on, get up quickly. We have to run to the basement right now before this ugly machine turns back on," Raka orders."My back feels like it is about to break, you know. Besides, why are we going down to the basement when the apocalypse is literally happening right above our heads?" Sena grumbles.Sena picks up her cracked hacking tablet. She stares at the sky, which now radiates an increasingly thick red web of light."The main transmitter in the exosphere is locked tight. The on