All Chapters of Eternity Decay: Chapter 1
- Chapter 10
12 chapters
THE BLACK SHROUD
The digital timer on Axel’s right wrist flashed a menacing red within the pitch-black concrete corridor on the 50th floor of the Eternity Tower. 00 Days, 00 Hours, 03 Minutes, 14 Seconds.Axel’s chest felt as though it had been struck by an iron sledgehammer. Chronos Decay—the biological cancer that preyed upon lifespan—was relentlessly wringing out the very last beats of his heart. His breath came in ragged, desperate gasps, leaving dark stains of blood upon the collar of his torn black tactical frock coat. The tightly buttoned, high-collared garment was now nothing more than a shroud ready to wrap his corpse.At the far end of the corridor, the heavy steel door of the main vault slid open. The rhythmic thud of combat boots echoed, shattering the freezing silence of the night.“You’re two minutes late, Brother.”Axel looked up through strands of hair drenched in sweat. There stood Valen. His half-brother looked immaculate in a luxurious, spotless white suit, a stark, mocking contrast
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A SURPLUS TO BE PAID
The stench of gunpowder, thick grease, and rusting iron was the first thing to assault Axel’s senses as his consciousness slowly drifted back.He could no longer hear the steady drum of rain. Above him, a cracked concrete ceiling crisscrossed with leaking steam pipes signaled his location: deep within the bowels of the earth, the Lower District.Axel attempted to move his right arm, but a sharp, agonizing ache shot straight to his marrow. Instinctively, he glanced down at his wrist. 29 Days, 21 Hours, 14 Seconds.The numbers were no longer flashing a menacing red. Instead, they glowed a stable, solid green. Someone had injected a fresh surplus of lifespan into his system, stabilizing the Chronos Decay that had nearly crushed his heart a few hours ago.“Don’t move too much unless you want your heart valves to burst.”A cold yet familiar female voice cut through the billowing smoke of a soldering iron. A woman with short hair tied back haphazardly stepped into view. Rhea. She wore decor
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THE LOGIC OF A SOCIOPATH
The only constant in the Lower District was the suffocating, pitch-black darkness. Axel stood within a narrow corridor outside an abandoned logistics barracks, checking the ammunition magazine of a backup tactical pistol he had concealed behind a subterranean wall panel. 29 Days, 18 Hours, 05 Minutes.His time continued to erode. Every lost second was another footstep toward the grave. Axel chambered the weapon with a single, clean jerk, then stowed it beneath the heavy folds of his long black tactical frock coat.Suddenly, the flickering neon lights along the entire Lower District corridor died in unison. An unnatural, sudden silence gripped the air. The sharp stench of burnt ozone followed, a telltale sign that an electromagnetic circuit breaker had just been tripped from the Upper Control Center.Axel instantly dropped his posture, pressing himself flat against the concrete wall. His instincts as the former number-one Liquidator screamed in warning. They were already here.From the
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THE PRICE OF A CHOICE
The key to bringing down a tower from below is to sever the supply to its foundation.Six hours after the clinic raid, Axel stood within the Sub Sector 4 buffer district, a logistics transit zone where Eternity Corp stockpiled raw Time Core reserves before shipping them to the Upper District. The air here was heavy with the mist of liquid nitrogen coolant, and the perimeter was heavily fortified by high-voltage electric fencing. 29 Days, 12 Hours, 40 Minutes.Axel adjusted the positioning of the tactical blade concealed beneath the sleeve of his black tactical frock coat. Beside him, Rhea was busy bypassing the outer control panel using a portable cyber-deck. The atmosphere between them remained suffocatingly tense ever since the truth at the clinic had unraveled that night. Rhea stole glances at him several times, her lips parting as if she wanted to say something, but Axel remained stone-faced, his gaze fixed straight ahead.“Perimeter encryption bypassed,” Rhea whispered, wiping th
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TWENTY-FIVE DAYS TO ASH
The steel walls of the abandoned barracks vibrated faintly as the distant wails of the emergency sirens from the logistics sub-sector echoed through the night. The explosion of the main distribution tank had successfully crippled half of the Upper District’s Time Core supply, but the price of their victory had been devastatingly high.Marcus was gone.Axel sat on the edge of an empty wooden ammunition crate. His black tactical frock coat, torn heavily at the shoulder, lay discarded on the floor, exposing a black undershirt soaked in sweat and dried blood splatters. Beneath the rhythmic hum of a flickering incandescent bulb, the digital timer on his right wrist ticked away with cold, mechanical consistency. 29 Days, 04 Hours, 12 Minutes.For the first time, Axel’s hands, usually as steady as forged iron when gripping a weapon, trembled violently. He squeezed his mother’s silver necklace tightly against his palm, pressing his forehead into his clenched fist. His breath was ragged and he
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INFILTRATING THE WOLF'S DEN
The rain in the Lower District was never truly clean; it always carried the black residue of industrial soot washed down from the Upper District. Axel stood inside the shaft of waste disposal vent number 09, positioned directly beneath the monolithic foundations of the Eternity Tower. 21 Days, 11 Hours, 05 Minutes.Four days had slipped away since Marcus’s death. Axel’s time continued to bleed out, and the symptoms of Chronos Decay were beginning to manifest with merciless frequency. Every few hours, his vision would blur into a chaotic mess of digital static, torturing his optic nerves. Axel ignored it. He tightened his tactical belt over his black tactical frock coat, which Rhea had recently reinforced with a lightweight layer of kevlar.“Thermal sensor grids in the waste pipe sector have been disabled,” Rhea’s voice crackled through the micro-transceiver in his ear. “You have exactly three minutes before the system initiates an automated rescan, Axel. Move now.”Axel didn't waste a
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EXECUTION IN THE DARK
To an ordinary person, darkness is blindness; but to Axel, it was a tactical map.The moment the hall plunged into blackness, Angga’s panicked shriek shattered the silence, instantly followed by the frantic clatter of automatic weapons as Valen’s enforcers attempted to blindfire into the void.“Activate night vision! Fast!” Valen barked, his previously arrogant voice now pitching into a frantic, high-strained panic.It would take them exactly four seconds to boot up the infrared tactical visors on their helmets. To Axel, four seconds was an eternity.SWISH!Silently, Axel burst from behind the marble pillar. He moved like a phantom, his black tactical frock coat slicing through the air without a sound. His first target was the gunman on the right flank. Extending the tactical blade CNC-machined into his sleeve, Axel severed the external power cable of the enforcer's helmet before the infrared sensors could even initialize.In one fluid, pivoting motion, Axel spun the disoriented guard
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THE STOLEN HEARTBEAT
“Valen, authorize the Vampire Drain protocol on that woman’s clinic sub-sector. Do not siphon their lifespans instantly. Do it systematically, in increments. Let the digital timer on that woman's wrist bleed out one hour for every ten minutes that pass.”Valen snapped his head up, his eyes widening as the sheer sadism of his father’s strategy sank in. “You want to torture her from a distance just to shatter Axel’s focus during the hack?”“Precisely,” Adrian murmured, returning his gaze to the glass window. “Axel wears that rigid black coat to conceal the reality that he still harbors a residual scrap of humanity in his chest. And that very humanity will be the noose that hangs him.”Adrian’s inner monologue echoed through the suffocating silence of the room: Did you honestly believe you could defeat him with weapons, Valen? No. Axel can only be destroyed if you make his own choices feel like a mistake. I am the one who molded him, and I know the exact frequency required to make him cr
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THE GRIM REAPER'S FINAL STRIDE
The high-speed freight elevator groaned heavily, cutting through the darkness of the vertical shaft of the Eternity Tower at hundreds of kilometers per hour. Inside the cramped, metallic box, there was only Axel and a suffocating, deathly silence. 13 Days, 01 Hour, 42 Minutes.The searing pain in Axel’s chest from the flare of Chronos Decay now felt like a white-hot iron rod twisting inside his heart. The biological side effects of rerouting Rhea’s time-drain load earlier were pushing his physical endurance to its absolute limits. Yet, Axel’s face beneath the dim elevator light remained as rigid as a forged steel mask.He slid the magazine out of his tactical pistol, verifying the remaining rounds with a rhythmic tap of his fingers, before slamming it back into place with a solid, definitive click.Axel pulled at the high collar of his black tactical frock coat, buttoning the very top link tightly to wrap around his neck. The heavy, dark kevlar fabric felt like a suit of armor, comple
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THE FINAL SECONDS IN THE ISOLATION ROOM
The sharp hiss of the hydraulic steel blast doors sealing the fiftieth floor gradually died down, leaving behind a suffocating, heavy silence within the sterile grand hall of the Eternity Tower. The emergency crimson hazard lights rotated constantly, casting sinister red reflections across the blood-slicked white marble.13 Days, 00 Hours, 05 Minutes.Axel’s heart hammered violently, pumping the rapidly depleting remnants of his biological energy into his straining muscles. The muzzle of the Life Reaper Gun in his right hand remained absolutely steady, aiming dead center between Adrian Vince’s eyes.Around them, twenty elite Liquidators stood frozen. Their laser rifles were locked onto Axel’s head, yet not a single one dared to pull the trigger. They knew that within this close proximity, Axel’s reflexes were faster than a blink. A single stray round from their vanguard would trigger an instantaneous catastrophic detonation of the reactor core, whose codes had been tightly locked down
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