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Chapter 313: I can't!
In the middle of all that, Viv leaned against a wall that was still okay. Her red hair had blood and dirt in it. Her clothes were torn. Parts were gone. He saw angry, bubbly burns on her arms and neck. One arm hung uselessly. It was clearly broken. But in her good hand, she held a big, smoking Association gun. Its power was gone. She held it like a club. She was surrounded by more bodies. At least two more Unit 7 guys. Maybe three. It was hard to tell. They looked like melted armor and burned meat. She looked up when he and Arachne came out of the fading portal light. A wild, happy, and angry grin showed on her bloody face. "Took you long enough, Boss," she said. Her voice was rough. She coughed. It sounded wet. She spat a thick gob of bloody stuff on the ruined floor. "The party got a little out of hand after you left." Kyle just stared. At the bodies. At the broken stuff. At her. He thought she would be dead. Or caught. Not... this. Not the boss of this terrible place
Chapter 312: Damn it!
Natalie coughed. She pushed hair from her face. "Kyle? Are you okay?" Her voice was shaky. She looked scared. Arachne stood up. She swayed a little. One hand pressed her side. "My Lord," she said. Her voice was tight. "That was the Entity. I never thought. The stories are real." "Stories?" Kyle asked. His throat was dry. He stood up. He felt dizzy. "What stories?" "It is a thing that holds stuff," Arachne said. Her eyes looked far away. "The first Creators made it. To hold things they could not destroy. Things from a long time ago." Kyle did not ask "before what." He needed to know something else. He looked around the main hall. It was empty. Only the three of them were there. "Viv," he said. His voice was sharp. "Katherine. Where are they?" Natalie looked confused. "Weren’t they with us?" Arachne looked at Kyle. She focused. "My Lord, they stayed outside the room. In the Spire’s lower levels. When you opened the door to the Lock, they were still fighting Unit 7." Kyle felt ba
Chapter 311: Boss II
Kyle knew he needed to get stronger. Not just in terms of raw power, but he needed to be smarter too. This reckless way of charging into things, it was not working out well. Gina had been right about that. He remembered the silver disc he still had in his pocket. The Covenant. Maybe they really did have more answers for him. But first, they all needed to rest. And he needed to make sure his castle was not about to fall down around their ears. He focused inward, trying to feel the current state of his domain. It felt weak, and he could tell it was damaged, but the connection was still there. It was slowly mending, much like his own body was. And that was thanks to Natalie. He closed his eyes for a moment. He had a lot of things to think about. And he had a lot of people he needed to protect. Kyle opened his eyes again. The immediate crisis seemed to be over, but he knew they were far from safe. "Arachne," he said, his voice a bit stronger now, "can you check the castle’s wards? M
Chapter 310: Boss
Kyle looked up at Natalie. Her face was wet from crying, but she also looked very determined. He understood in that moment. She had done something important to help him. "You..." he started to say, but his voice was just a rough sound. He felt incredibly tired, more tired than he had ever been. "Don’t try to talk right now, Kyle," Natalie said, her voice a little shaky but firm. "Just rest. You were... in a really bad way." Viv was there too, and she looked pretty beat up herself. She grumbled, "Yeah, Boss. You gave all of us a real scare this time. You almost checked out for good." She shifted uncomfortably where she knelt. "My arm is seriously killing me, by the way." Arachne watched him, and her usual calm face showed clear signs of exhaustion. "My Lord, your core was almost completely depleted. Natalie was able to... assist in its stabilization." Kyle processed that information slowly. Natalie had helped him. He looked back at her again. She seemed different, stronger in a wa
Chapter 309: Farm?
Katherine stumbled back into the main hall, arms laden with a mismatched collection of items. A water skin sloshed precariously. Rolls of clean-looking linen, probably ripped from bedsheets, were tucked under one arm. A small, chipped bowl completed the load.The vast hall was darker now, the air frigid. The faint, intermingled glow from Natalie, Viv, and Arachne’s hands cast the only reliable light, painting their strained faces in hues of white, fiery gold, and deep shadow. Kyle lay utterly still beneath their touch."I... I brought what I could find," Katherine stammered, her voice echoing unnervingly in the oppressive gloom. She hurried towards them, nearly tripping over a loose flagstone.Viv didn’t look up. "Put it down. Anywhere." Her voice was a raw rasp, each word seemingly ground out through sheer effort. Sweat plastered her red hair to her temples, and her good hand, pressed against Kyle's chest, trembled violently.Natalie whimpered softly, a small, broken sound. The white
Chapter 308: Darkness
Kyle's trembling hand touched the cold, runed steel.A jolt, colder than ice, more potent than any electrical shock, shot up Kyle's arm, slamming into his chest. The Mark of Dominance flared, an agonized, searing supernova of red-black energy. His vision whited out. He heard a distant roaring, like a storm trapped inside his own skull, and the distinct, horrifying sensation of his domain tearing.’No... stop... it’s too much...’ a part of his mind screamed.But another, colder, more resolute part, fueled by guilt and a desperate, stubborn refusal to fail Katherine, pushed back. He gritted his teeth, blood trickling from his bitten lip, and pulled. Not with his physical strength, but with the very essence of his will, his dominion, his fractured power.He poured everything he had left into the Mark, into the connection with the Entity's lock.The runes on the door blazed with an impossible, hungry light, shifting from sickly purple to a deep, void-like black. The air in the tunnel crac
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