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Ch-72
Nathan stood motionless for several seconds, staring at the now-dark screen. The weight of the message hung in the air like fog... dense, silent, and poisonous. He exhaled slowly. Whatever protection anonymity once offered him was gone. They knew. He touched the ring, and for a moment, the pulsing energy centered him. Then his vision shimmered faintly, a ripple moving across his field of view. His senses sharpened. He could detect the aroma of the coffee on his desk, long gone cold, and it suddenly turned acrid. He blinked, then narrowed his eyes. The coffee smelled…wrong. He stepped closer and hovered his hand over the mug. The ring warmed instantly. A soft, golden glow licked around his fingers, and Nathan saw wisps of dark energy coiling from the cup like ghostly tendrils. Poison, or at least something like it. He hadn’t even taken a sip earlier, brushing it aside during the meeting with a minor instinct. Now he knew why. His abilities were changing again.***** That nig
Ch-71
Nathan sat cross-legged on the floor of his meditation room, the faint hum of biofrequency emitters surrounding him like a cocoon. The room was designed for silence—no distractions, no digital interference. His breath was steady, the ring on his finger pulsating gently with every inhale. He focused inward, extending his awareness beyond the room, threading his mind through the city’s ambient noise like fingers through fog.Somewhere, across the city, another meeting was happening—one not on any calendar, one hidden in static and shadow. And Nathan reached for it.His consciousness brushed against the edge of something sharp.A presence.Then—a wall.Not stone or steel. Not electronic.A mind.And not just any mind—a fortress wrapped in smoke and ancient discipline.Nathan pushed.The wall hit back.White-hot pain lanced through his skull. His breath caught. Blood burst from his nose as if something inside his brain had cracked.He recoiled, gasping, one hand clawing at the floor. The
Ch-70
The sound of fingers furiously clacking against a keyboard echoed in the dimmed data room, tucked three floors below Imperium Corp’s main building. Miko’s dark eyes flicked across the streaming code on the screen, her brows furrowed in concentration.Harper stood beside her, arms crossed, gaze fixed on the monitor. “You’re sure it’s not just Nathan updating his files remotely?”Miko shook her head, tapping to enlarge a highlighted block of log entries. “He hasn't accessed these folders in over three weeks. But someone else tried to, five times. From an external node masked through three proxy layers. Whoever it was knew exactly what to look for.”“Can you trace it?”Miko hesitated. “Not fully. But I know where it originated: someone inside the company. They didn’t get in, but that won’t stop them next time.”Before Harper could reply, the security door hissed open behind them. Nathan stepped in, black jacket still damp from the rain outside, his presence calm but alert.“You called?”
Ch-69
The soft whir of a smoothie blender filled the Imperium Corp breakroom as Nathan leaned over the counter, watching the machine struggle through frozen berries. He didn’t usually take breaks, he couldn’t afford to with the ring pulsing strange energy through his veins.But Harper had insisted. And so here he was, watching blueberries and protein powder be chopped into a pulp just so they could become something nutritious.He became alert as soon as he heard a yelp.“Agh—dammit!”Harper hissed, yanking her hand back from the drawer she had just opened. A splatter of red stained her fingers.Nathan was beside her in a blink.“What happened?”“The blender blade in the drawer wasn’t stored right.” She winced, holding up her palm. A clean, shallow slice curved across her skin.Nathan reached for a paper towel but hesitated.Something about the cut, the way her skin flared red, tugged at his senses. He wasn’t thinking. He just touched her wrist with two fingers.And the ring warmed.Harper
Ch-68
From the far end of the cafés wide glass windows, hidden by the shadows of a half-drawn curtain, Miko stood motionless.Her almond-shaped eyes, usually so calm, now shimmered with restrained alarm.She had followed her instincts to the café after Harper texted her to meet but hadn’t expected this—Nathan and Harper locked in an embrace, surrounded by a radiant flare from his ring. Not a trick of light. Not technology. Something older. Deeper.As the glow faded and the pair stood there, breathless and changed, Miko pressed her palm to the cool glass.It was just like in the scrolls.Her grandfather’s stories drifted back to her like a song on wind. Scrolls written in forgotten dialects, describing artifacts said to be forged from cosmic stone, imbued with the essence of celestial guardians. Artifacts that reacted to soul alignment—where two beings momentarily became one.She had always assumed it was folklore. Romanticized nonsense passed down from monk to child.But she had just witnes
Ch-67
Lucas lay in a crumpled heap against the cafe's tile floor, groaning faintly, one arm twisted at a sickening angle. The glass he’d been holding had shattered on impact, its remnants glinting around his motionless hand.Nathan stood over him with measured calm, not a scratch on his face, only the faint gleam of his ring, still pulsing softly with residual energy.Harper stepped forward cautiously, her gaze darting from Lucas to Nathan. “You broke his arm.”“He came at me,” Nathan said flatly. “With a punch and a plan.”Her voice lowered. “And you caught every single move like you’d seen it five seconds before he made it.”“I did.”She blinked. “You read him.”Nathan finally looked at her, something unreadable in his eyes. “I felt you too. When he started pressuring you… I felt it. The ring... it reacts when you're distressed.”Harper’s lips parted slightly. “You felt me?”He nodded once. “Your panic. Your tension. Not just words. The ring... it doesn’t just read minds anymore. It sense
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