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Ch-123
The Rivergate Tower still smoldered beneath a gray dawn as Nathan stood with Harper atop the parking structure across from the plaza. Below them, news drones hovered in flocks, transmitting shaky footage of the shattered gala venue, now surrounded by fire crews, security teams, and hundreds of stunned civilians. What had been a tribute to Syndicate control was now a smoking symbol of its unraveling.Harper scrolled through the latest intel feeds on her datapad, her eyes hard. “The files hit the darknet an hour ago. Every Syndicate tie to Nexora has been exposed. Dresden’s shell companies, the signed black budgets, the neural override tests… everything.”Nathan didn’t look at the screen. His gaze stayed fixed on the tower. “And what about the board?”“Half of them forwarded the documents to their legal teams before they even opened the videos. The rest are calling emergency votes.”He nodded once. “Good. Then we end this now.”____Hours Later… at the Nexora HeadquartersThe elevator d
Ch-122
The cryo-facility groaned as backup power surged. Nathan stood before the boy’s awakening pod, the Dominion ring humming with a strange synchrony, one that pulsed deep in the earth, deep in time itself. Miko held her breath, watching as the failsafe’s eyes flickered behind closed lids. Not yet awake, but close. Harper’s voice cracked over comms. “We don’t have time. The Syndicate’s hosting a gala tonight. Rivergate Tower. Ethan’s expected to announce some kind of 'new phase.' That’s our moment.” Nathan turned from the pod, jaw tight. “Then we don’t wait for the future to happen. We will break it tonight.” --- The Rivergate Tower gleamed like a blade in the night, its mirrored surface catching the floodlights of the Syndicate’s most ostentatious event of the year. Inside the atrium ballroom, the elite circled like vultures in designer suits, toasting conquest over glasses of diamond-filtered champagne. Ethan stood at the top of the marble staircase, posture perfect, smile practice
Ch-121
Nathan sat motionless on the edge of the cot, fingers laced tightly as Harper paced the safehouse room. The aftershock of the dream battle with Volkov still rang through his skull like distant thunder.Each time he reached for his memories… those precise locations, hidden codenames, fragments of Syndicate strategy, they slipped through his fingers like smoke.But there were deeper truths they hadn’t yet lost.Miko stood near the far wall, her brow furrowed, breath shallow. She hadn’t spoken since Nathan awoke screaming. Her eyes were distant, clouded, locked in some invisible current of clairvoyant thought.Nathan finally rose and crossed to her side. “Miko?” he asked gently.She didn’t blink. “There’s a place. A cold place. Far below the surface. Machines… humming. Children’s voices, but muted, like echoes trapped in ice.”Nathan exchanged a glance with Harper, who had stopped mid-step.Miko’s voice dropped. “There’s a boy. Alone. Sleeping. Not… normal. He’s not just alive. He’s a fa
Ch-120
Nathan’s boots echoed through the rain-slick alleys of Neo-Tokyo as he left the crumbling media tower behind, his breath steaming in the cold. Sirens wailed in the distance, but inside his mind, something deeper howled. The threads of memories still buzzed in his skull: names, crimes, locations… too many to hold at once. He pressed a hand to his temple, trying to focus, but a sudden tremor ran through his spine. Then darkness seized him. He fell, not in body, but in mind! Dragged down through a crack in reality itself, the Dominion ring on his hand blazing white before vanishing into a void. When he opened his eyes again, he stood in a battlefield of impossible geometry—floating ruins, shifting terrain, lightning flashing in a sky of fractured glass. His breath fogged in a cold that wasn’t real. He knew this place. The dreamscape. Volkov was waiting. The former Syndicate tactician stood at the far edge of a shattered bridge suspended in nothingness. His coat flapped in windles
Ch-119
Nathan left the safehouse just before dawn, slipping through back alleys and service tunnels until he emerged across from the towering glass headquarters of Orion Media Group. Floodlights cut through the lingering night mist, glinting off the giant screens broadcasting the network’s hourly headlines: Nathan Hale branded a traitor, a murderer, a terrorist bent on tearing civilization apart.He felt Harper’s voice crackle in his earpiece. “You sure about this?”Nathan’s eyes narrowed. “They’ve poisoned every mind in the world against us. That ends today.”He crossed the street, pulling his hood lower over his face. Security clustered at the main entrance, but Nathan didn’t slow. He reached out with his mind instead, brushing past the tangled surface thoughts of the guards—fatigue, annoyance, the drumming echo of orders to watch for him. With a nudge of mental pressure, he turned their focus elsewhere, slipping through the doors unseen.Inside, the lobby gleamed with polished marble and
Ch-118
Nathan sat in the safehouse’s darkened comms room, eyes locked on the cluster of monitors in front of him. The glow painted harsh lines across his face, sweat glistening on his temple despite the chill of the concrete walls.He could already hear the Syndicate announcer’s voice on the feed, echoing through global airwaves with perfect, poisonous calm: “This is a reminder. There is no sanctuary. No hero. Only Syndicate law.”On the screen, the whistleblower knelt on a raised dais beneath stark floodlights. Their face was bruised, blood caked along one cheek. Nathan recognized them,Daniel Kwan, the journalist who had leaked Syndicate documents showing child trafficking rings in Jakarta.They’d gone underground after the leak. Nathan had tried to get to him first, but Syndicate hunters had been faster.A hush fell over the Syndicate feed as a masked figure stepped forward behind Daniel, holding a long, curved blade. Nathan felt bile rise in his throat.Not this time, he thought.Harper’s
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