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Chapter 322
Rick stood tall. He gripped his staff. He knew Isaac could not see him or hear him right now. This was a pre-recorded message, triggered to activate a few hours after the raid."You are probably wondering why I let you escape with those thirty sick scavengers," Isaac's hologram smiled softly. He adjusted his thin silver glasses. "You think you won a great victory tonight. You think you saved them from the incinerator."Isaac folded his clean white hands on the glass desk. "I did not want to kill them, Rick," Isaac explained calmly. "I needed them to be rescued. I needed you to touch them. I needed you to bring them back to your secret, hidden rat's nest."Rick felt a cold drop of sweat slide down his back."You see," Isaac continued, his voice echoing in the damp tunnel. "I knew I could not track you. You are a ghost. You hide your magic too well. But sick, terrified, ordinary people? They are very easy to track."Luna gasped. She looked at the thirty new refugees sitting in the train
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The warm water felt wonderful. Rick sighed. He opened his tired brown eyes and looked at her. "Thank you," Rick whispered."You are a fool, you know that?" Luna smiled gently, wiping a streak of dirt from his cheek. "You walked right into the smartest man's trap.""I know," Rick said. He frowned. He looked down at his own hands. "Isaac is a genius. He knew exactly what I would do. He knew I could not stand in the shadows and watch a little girl die. He used my vow against me as a weapon."Luna stopped washing his face. She let her hand rest on his knee. She looked at him with very serious, very deep brown eyes."I have been thinking about Auditor Isaac," Luna said quietly. The noise of the busy clinic covered her soft voice. No one else could hear them."He is evil," Rick stated flatly. "He is a greedy, heartless monster. He wants to put my magic in a bottle and sell it to the rich. He is worse than Yuren."Luna shook her head slowly. "No, Rick," Luna said. "That is the scary part. He
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Rick stood in the center of the crater he had made. The brilliant, pure emerald green light of his Earth Qi slowly faded away. The bright glow pulled back into his skin. The alley became dark again, lit only by the weak, orange light of the fake doctor’s small lantern.The fifty Hunter-Killers were completely destroyed. Their heavy silver armor was crushed against the rusted iron walls of the alley. Sparks of red electricity popped and died in the muddy puddles.Overseer Graves lay in the dirt. He was groaning in pain. He was not dead, but his body was badly broken. The shockwave of pure healing magic had knocked him unconscious for a moment.Rick breathed heavily. His chest moved up and down. He felt incredibly weak. He had used a massive amount of his true, pure magic. But his soul felt clean. The dark, ugly gray sludge was gone. He was the Ghost Doctor again.Rick looked at the thirty innocent people. They were kneeling in the mud. The burning red electric chains that had tied the
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Rick opened his eyes. They were completely flat and gray. He stepped back from the edge of the rusted bridge. He gripped his staff. He turned around. He was going to walk away into the dark. He was going to let them die to protect the greater good. It was the hardest, most terrible choice he had ever made.Down in the alley, Overseer Graves smiled. Graves dropped the screaming little girl into the mud next to her bleeding father. "Chain the brat," Graves ordered a silver guard.Then, Overseer Graves did something very strange. He did not look at the prisoners. He did not look at the fake doctor on the ground.Overseer Graves slowly tilted his head back. He looked straight up. He looked directly up at the tall, dark, rusted bridge hanging hundreds of feet in the air. He looked exactly at the spot where Rick was hiding in the shadows."I know you are up there, anomaly," Graves called out loudly. His cruel voice echoed through the deep scrap canyon, carrying perfectly up to the high bri
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From the thick yellow smog at both ends of the alley, heavy metal boots stomped into the mud. Clank. Clank. Clank.Fifty Hunter-Killers marched into the alley.They wore thick, gleaming silver armor. They carried massive red hand cannons that hummed with deadly electricity. Bright red laser sights shot out from their weapons, sweeping across the terrified crowd of sick people.Hovering in the air above the alley were three giant, black Surveillance Drones. Their massive red searchlights pinned the crowd in the dirt.The Night Line of thirty sick patients panicked. They screamed and tried to run."Nobody move!" a loud, robotic voice boomed from the silver guards. "By order of the Pharmaceutical Guild and Auditor Isaac, this area is completely surrounded!"The sick people froze. They dropped to their knees in the freezing mud, putting their hands on their heads. They were terrified. They were trapped.Rick watched from the high bridge. His breath caught in his throat. “A raid,” Rick re
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High above the dirty, twisting mountains of the junkyard, Rick crouched in the shadows. He sat on a rusted metal bridge. The bridge was broken and dangerous. It hung hundreds of feet in the air, right over Sector Nine of the scrap maze.Rick did not move. He breathed very slowly. His body was covered in dark purple bruises. His ribs ached with every breath. It had been three days since he escaped the bright, white tower of Auditor Isaac. He had exploded the silver Extraction Engine. He had shattered the thick glass cage. He had fallen back down into the dark, toxic mud of Rustgate to hide.Luna and Ash were safe. He had hidden them deep underground, far away from the city patrols. But Rick could not rest. A doctor cannot sleep when the city is bleeding.He looked down into the dark valley below him. The thick, yellow smog swirled slowly. It looked like a dirty, poisoned ocean.He pulled his new dark gray coat tightly around his shoulders. Luna had stitched the torn pieces of his old
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