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The sledgehammer head smashed the remaining three guards' chemical tanks off their backs, shattering the iron straps and sending the guards tumbling off the porch into the dirt!In less than twenty seconds, all six municipal guards were disarmed, groaning and sprawling in the dust!Inspector Kross stood alone on the porch stairs, his hat knocked sideways... his gold spectacles slipping down his sweat-covered nose while his hands tremble violently as he backed up against the carriage wheels."Don't... don't hurt me!" Kross whimpered, dropping his clipboard onto the floorboards. "I was paid two thousand dollars by Broker Vane's assistant! It was Vane's idea! He wanted the hospital closed before the Board Assembly!"Caleb walked calmly up the porch stairs toward him, his boots clicking firmly against the oak wood.He didn't raise his fists nor draw a weapon.He reached out... grabbed Kross by his coat collar and pulled the trembling inspector up to his eye level."You're going to take th
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"Touch that valve, and you'll spend the next ten years swallowing river mud," a cool freezing voice spoke from the stairs.Inspector Kross and his six guards froze instantly.Caleb stepped out from the shadow of the brick archway, wearing his coat while his hands were casually resting in his pockets.His face was completely calm, his dead eyes fixed on Inspector Kross.Kross looked at Caleb's plain shirt, adjusting his gold spectacles arrogantly. "Are you the head squatter of this illegal facility?""I am Caleb, Chairman of CAL Capital," Caleb stated clearly, taking a slow step down the stairs. "And you are standing on a private deeded land without a valid health inspection warrant."Kross laughed nervously, tapping his clipboard. "I don't need a warrant on a slum! I hold an emergency quarantine order signed by the High-Tower Municipal Council!"Caleb took another slow step forward, stopping right in front of Kross, looking down into the inspector's twitching eyes."You're a terrible
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Leo clutched the money and the key against his chest, bowing deeply to Caleb with tears of profound gratitude. "I will work day and night Boss! I will train fifty master engineers for CAL Capital! I swear it on my life!""Go and unlock your school Head Engineer," Caleb said with a warm, proud smile.While Leo and Tobias led the twenty excited apprentices inside the new Technical Academy, Nora walked beside Caleb back toward the ground-floor clinic at Headquarters.Outside the clinic door, over forty patients—old coal miners from Block Eight, timber sawyers from Block Seven, mothers holding babies and dock loaders—were sitting patiently on wooden benches waiting for care.Nora looked at the crowded line, her face showing concern despite her warm smile."The small clinic room isn't big enough anymore, Caleb," Nora explained softly. "We have three nurses working with me now but we only have six beds. When a miner gets hurt in the shafts, we have to lay him on a wool blanket on the floor.
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After Thomas headed downstairs with the new currency crates, Caleb turned his attention to Leo who was carefully wiping his steel drafting tools with a clean rag."Leo," Caleb called out gently, stepping up beside the young engineer.Leo looked up, his eyes bright and curious. "Yes Boss?""Put your tool belt on," Caleb said with a warm laugh. "We're going to inspect Plot 02 across the street."Nora, Lily, and Leo followed Caleb down the wide wooden staircase into the ground-floor reception hall and out onto the front porch.The morning sun was shining brightly across Plot 02... an empty two-story building that Jurl’s team had completed three days ago.The building was magnificent. It had large glass windows, polished floorboards, thick walls and a high-ceilinged workshop equipped with miniature steam boilers, drafting tables, iron lathes and brass testing gauges.Standing near the front wooden entrance is Raf, the old veteran mechanic from the Eastern Machinery Sinks, wearing a clean
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Dawn broke over the Southern Sector in a brilliant wave of pale red and soft gold.Caleb stood on the third-floor balcony of CAL Capital Headquarters, looking down at the wide market lane below.The morning air was crisp, clean and filled with the invigorating scent of pine wood smoke, freshly ground roasted barley tea and sweet wheat bread.Down on the street, the morning trade was already in full swing.Martha’s two bakery carts were surrounded by cheerful mothers buying hot dough cakes for their children, while across the lane, old Mr. Gary was hanging a hand-painted wooden sign outside the new trade office.Along the twin steel tracks of the CAL Capital Central Railway, a steam locomotive sat idling smoothly, sending soft puffs of white steam into the morning sky as coal miners from Block Eight unloaded fresh black coal for the nearby furnaces.Nora walked out onto the balcony wearing a clean linen dress and a navy wool shawl wrapped around her shoulders.She set a steaming clay m
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The force shattered the tactical vest, sending the mercenary flying backward eight feet through the dark air, crashing hard into the stone bridge pillar!The second and third mercenaries lunged together from the left.Caleb raised his left arm intercepting the second man's wrist mid-swing, then twisted the joint hard counter-clockwise![SNAP!]The mercenary shrieked in pain, dropping his shock dagger into the water.Caleb grabbed the third mercenary by his collar and hurled him face-first into the steel railway track, knocking him unconscious instantly!Jurl the blacksmith stepped up, swinging his sledgehammer horizontally against the fourth man's shock blade![CLANG!]The hammer strike shattered the blade into a hundred glowing blue sparks, sending the mercenary tumbling into the canal mud!Thomas rushed the fifth man, whipping his iron chain around the man's ankles, tripping him instantly and slamming him face-first into the limestone gravel!In less than twenty seconds, all five of
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