All Chapters of Legacy Inheritance System: Revenge of The True Heir: Chapter 51
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The Price of Failure
Johny sat alone in his private office with the special phone resting in his hand, staring at its dark screen as though he could force it to ring simply by watching it. The device had never been used for ordinary business. There was only one number stored in it, and that number belonged to the people who had changed his life after he acquired Bolt Group, providing him with resources, connections, and opportunities that had allowed him to move far beyond what his own position could have achieved.He pressed the call button again. Nothing.Johny ended the call and tried again, then a third time. The silence on the other end was beginning to frighten him. He had known for days that Raiden had escaped, and he understood what that meant. The first failure had been tolerated, but the second had already crossed a line, even though Johny knew the situation was not entirely his fault.He had captured Raiden. Whatever happened afterward had taken place inside their facility. Yet Johny knew better
A Wedding Can Wait
Angeline arrived at Randal Group shortly after noon, carrying a small folder against her chest as she stepped out of the elevator. Unlike her usual visits, she had not come to discuss business or ask Johny about Aurora. Her mind was occupied by something considerably more personal, and for the first time in weeks, she felt that she and Johny might finally be moving toward the future she had expected when their relationship began.Their marriage had been discussed several times, although neither of them had settled on a date. Angeline had decided that she was tired of waiting for Johny to bring it up again, so she had taken the initiative herself. She had already looked through several venues and gathered information about possible arrangements, and although she had not made any decisions, she wanted to sit down with Johny and start turning their vague plans into something concrete.When she reached his office, his secretary stood immediately.“Mr. Randal is inside.”“Is he available?”
A Different Kind of Victory
The atmosphere at Aurora was noticeably lighter that morning.For the first time in weeks, there was no urgent meeting about a supplier withdrawing, no unexpected call from a corporate client, and no report of another problem created by the pressure surrounding the hotel. Instead, Mileena stood in Raiden's office with an official letter in her hands and a restrained smile that she had been unable to hide since receiving it.“Mr. Bolt, we received the official notification this morning.”She placed the document on his desk.“Aurora has been selected as the preferred corporate hospitality partner.”Raiden looked down at the letter and read through the details without immediately reacting. The result was significant. The tender had attracted several established hotel groups, and Aurora had entered the process while dealing with public criticism, the loss of corporate accounts, and the disruption surrounding Elena's event. Yet the committee had still chosen Aurora after reviewing the fina
The Hidden Breach
Johny had spent most of the afternoon going through the reports from the failed operation, but the more he read, the less satisfied he became with the explanations available to him. Raiden had been captured, transported to the facility, and placed under the control of people who were far better equipped to contain him than Johny's own men. Yet somehow, he had still managed to escape.The incident itself had been reported to Johny only in fragments. There had been confusion inside the facility, several security systems had been compromised, and by the time the situation was brought under control, Raiden was already gone.Johny could not accept that as a coincidence. If he wanted any chance of capturing Raiden again, he needed to understand what had happened.The problem was that he could not simply ask the people behind the facility. After everything that had happened, revealing his curiosity would only create another problem, particularly when they had already begun taking control of
The Digital Trail
Johny remained in his office long after midnight, staring at the security reports spread across his desk. The documents contained enough information to confirm what he had already suspected: Raiden's escape from the facility had not been a matter of luck.Someone had systematically broken through the facility's security. Across from him, the cybersecurity specialist continued scrolling through the copied logs on his laptop."Whoever accessed these systems understood the architecture," the man said. "This was not a simple credential breach. Several authentication layers were bypassed, and some of the security logs were altered afterward."Johny's expression tightened."Can you identify him?""I cannot give you a name from the logs alone. But the access pattern is consistent. Whoever did this moved through the system in a very specific sequence, as if he already understood what he was looking for."Johny leaned back."Raiden."The specialist looked at him for a moment before nodding. "I
The Bait
By the following morning, Johny had already stopped thinking about another direct confrontation with Raiden. Every attempt to pressure him through Aurora had produced the opposite result, while the operation involving Mileena had ended with Marcus dead and Raiden still free. Whatever advantage Johny had once possessed was disappearing quickly, and with the organization behind him already taking control of his assets, he could no longer afford another failure caused by impatience.The discovery of Project Neural Legacy had given him something different.He still knew very little about the project itself, but the information contained one important detail that could be used against Raiden: his mother's name was attached to it, and Raiden himself had been listed as the primary subject. If Raiden had discovered the same records during his escape, Johny could reasonably assume that anything connected to Caren's research would be difficult for him to ignore.The question was where that info
The Hidden Trail
Raiden remained in his room long after the rest of Aurora had settled into its usual evening rhythm, the glow from his monitor illuminating the desk as another layer of the recovered archive unfolded before him. Since discovering the reference to Project Neural Legacy, he had been tracing every surviving fragment he could find, comparing timestamps, server structures, and archived records in an attempt to understand what his mother had been working on and why an organization he had never heard of had spent years searching for the research.Most of the information he found led nowhere.Some records had been damaged beyond recovery, others had been deliberately encrypted, and several archive paths ended abruptly as though someone had removed the corresponding storage. Then he found another reference buried beneath an old directory.PROJECT: NEURAL LEGACYARCHIVE NODE 07PHYSICAL STORAGE REFERENCE: CAR-NEU-07STATUS: OFFLINE STORAGERaiden stared at the screen for several seconds. A phys
The Trap
Raiden stopped his vehicle several hundred meters from the warehouse and spent a few minutes studying the building from the road. It looked exactly as it had in the records he had found earlier: an aging industrial structure with faded paint, weathered walls, and a loading area surrounded by overgrown weeds. There were no lights visible from the main entrance, and the surrounding properties appeared equally quiet at this hour.Nothing about the place immediately suggested danger. That did not mean Raiden intended to walk through the front door.He left the vehicle and approached on foot, keeping to the darker side of the road until he reached the property. After making another quick check of the surrounding area, he moved around the building and found a side entrance secured by an old mechanical lock. The lock offered little resistance, and within moments Raiden was inside.The warehouse was dark and still. A faint smell of dust and old machinery lingered in the air, while several ele
The Man Behind the Trap
Raiden stood in the middle of the road, surrounded on three sides by men who had clearly been prepared for exactly this moment. The sedative had already begun affecting his body, making every movement heavier than it should have been, while the stabilization protocol from Legacy worked to slow the drug's effect and keep his consciousness clear.He studied the vehicles blocking the road, then the men positioned around them. Their formation was too organized to be improvised, and unlike the group inside the warehouse, these men had been waiting specifically for him to break through the first perimeter.Someone had planned this carefully. A vehicle parked farther behind the others suddenly opened. Raiden's eyes narrowed when the man who stepped out became visible beneath the dim streetlights. Johny Randal.For a moment, neither man moved. They had crossed paths through the chaos surrounding Aurora and Bolt Group, but this was different. There were no business meetings, no lawyers, and no
Turning the Tables
Raiden kept driving even though his body was rapidly losing the strength needed to keep him behind the wheel. The sedative had already spread through his system, and although the Legacy was working to keep his nervous system from shutting down, it could not simply erase the effects. His vision blurred every few seconds, his arms felt increasingly heavy, and he had to force himself to remain focused on the road.He knew Johny would understand the situation as well as he did.After watching Raiden take several tranquilizer darts, Johny would never believe that he had managed to escape far from the warehouse. His men would search the surrounding area first, particularly the abandoned buildings and industrial properties where someone in Raiden's condition might have stopped after realizing he could no longer continue driving. The vehicle itself would make the search easier if they managed to trace its route, so staying on the road for too long was becoming more dangerous with every passin