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Chapter 20
The air in the subterranean cavern was thick with the scent of inert metal and ancient power. Below the maintenance sub-level, a massive, forgotten Aethelian Weapons Depot lay revealed. Rows upon rows of mothballed Aethelian technology stretched into the darkness, dominated by the terrifying centerpiece: a pristine, fully operational AMS-T Siege Tank, silent and suspended by heavy, dormant cables.Alex Vex, clutching his injured forearm, looked down at the scene from the narrow, rusty pipe. Lin Mei, still breathless, pointed back toward the hatch above.“The Legacy Unit is coming! It knows we’re here!”The heavy, metallic CRASH from the access hatch confirmed her fear. The Legacy Unit—one of the Headmaster’s elite Hounds—was descending into the sub-level, its crimson visor blazing.“The Depot has been breached. Subjects are contained. Terminating resistance,” the Hound unit announced, its synthesized voice echoing in the chamber.Alex looked from the Hound to the Siege Tank. The Hound
Chapter 19
The dual scream of Jia, Subject 002, pinned between the concentrated fire of the Commonwealth gunships and the powerful, organized Green Mana surge from the Headmaster, was the final, desperate noise that covered Alex Vex and Lin Mei’s escape.They lay sprawled in the wreckage of the highway pile-up, hidden among overturned civilian vehicles and abandoned cargo. The air was thick with the scent of ozone, burning metal, and terror.“The city… it’s a trap now,” Lin Mei whispered, her body trembling with shock and exhaustion. She clutched the Foundation Scroll (still secured to her chest) as if it were the only solid thing left in the world.Alex, rapidly regenerating from the kinetic overload, pushed himself to his feet. He scanned the scene with his internal sensor suite.[Threat Assessment: Academy Sector (High). Current Proximity (Highway Interdiction Zone). Threat Vector: Incoming Commonwealth Ground Units (T-180 seconds). Action: Immediate Exfiltration from Quarantine Zone.]The Co
Chapter 18
The Central Water Tower became the highest, most dangerous battlefield in Silverpeak.Below, the three Commonwealth Army gunships banked, their searchlights locking onto the observation deck. Above, the Herald paused its descent, its massive, biomechanical leviathan form detecting the immense kinetic resonance building within the tower.And ascending the service ladder with terrifying, broken speed was Jia, Subject 002.“She’s coming for us! She’s moving too fast!” Lin Mei screamed, clinging to a support strut, the Foundation Scroll secured to her chest.Alex Vex was straddling the primary seismic damper beam, his hand still vibrating the metal structure. He had less than thirty seconds before the resonance frequency peaked and he could launch the targeted kinetic pulse at the Herald.“Focus on the target. Ignore the distractions,” Alex stated, his gaze fixed on the dimensional monstrosity in the sky.But Jia was no distraction. She burst onto the observation deck, her movement jerky
Chapter 17
The massive, century-old stone arch of the Silverpeak Bridge groaned beneath the immense, colliding energies of the two Man-Made Gods. Jia’s Kinetic Wave met Alex’s Kinetic Shield, causing a volatile energy friction that was ripping the physical structure apart.The entire walkway tipped suddenly, and Lin Mei shrieked while holding to the bridge railing. Miles below, the turbulence was causing the river to churn white.Alex Vex focused every quantum of available kinetic energy into sustaining the shield. He could feel Jia’s cold, calculated pressure—she was not trying to win the duel; she was trying to destroy the platform to retrieve the Scroll in the river debris.“Yield, Subject 001! Your resistance is illogical!” Jia shrieked over the deafening crack of stone.“I reject the mandate!” Alex roared back.Just as the shield was about to fail, the Herald's Infiltration Drones intervened. The three sleek, obsidian-black machines, having formed their perimeter, accelerated toward the bri
Chapter 16
The cold, precise fury emanating from Jia, Subject 002, was more terrifying than the cosmic chaos descending from the sky. Her black armor was now humming, her crimson visor fixed on the Foundation Scroll hidden beneath Alex’s uniform.“Yield the Scroll, Alex Vex,” Jia stated, her voice devoid of synthetic inflection, now carrying a raw, metallic edge of pure intent. “You are the failsafe. Your function is destruction, not preservation. Failure to comply results in forced System Link and recycling.”“Your mandate is flawed,” Alex shot back, pushing Lin Mei behind him. “The Scroll rejected the Seed Code. You are unstable. I am taking the Key Holder and the Archive away from the System’s influence.”The air crackled between the two Man-Made Gods. The duel of the last Aethelian vessels had begun.Jia initiated the first strike—not with a blast, but with a silent, devastating Kinetic Field Collapse. She attempted to instantaneously multiply Alex's mass by a factor of fifty, pinning him to
Chapter 15
The Ancestral Vault, seconds ago a scene of raw, chaotic violence, fell into a profound, chilling silence.Jia, Subject 002, was paralyzed on the floor, her black armor splitting under the strain of the failed integration attempt. The Foundation Scroll, a cylinder of solidified Aethelian glass, spun rapidly, rejecting the Seed Code lodged in Jia’s core.Emerging from the Scroll was an entity of pure, organized light—an ethereal figure of a woman in robes woven from ancient energy patterns. This was the consciousness of the First Archivist, the guardian of the Aethelian legacy.Her gaze, filled with ancient grief and profound intellect, landed not on the mighty Man-Made Gods, but on Lin Mei, who was still suffering from the shock of her father's violent demise.The Archivist did not speak with sound, but her voice entered Lin Mei's mind—and through the lingering symbiotic link, Alex Vex’s internal sensors translated the full, crystalline stream of Aethelian data.“The descendant of the
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