Fire and Frozen Acid
Author: F.J. Wilder
last update2026-05-11 20:34:26

Fire is supposed to cleanse the world. But in my empire, fire simply freezes.

The huge steel doors of the Shelter 04 armory rumbled open. My newly formed Chimera Infantry—fifty-two men and women who had survived the absolute worst of the underground subway—stepped inside. They were astonished, their eyes opened wide.

They had been competing with each other over the old chips and empty water bottles for the past week. Now they were looking at millions of dollars' worth of military-grade equipmen
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