2026-06-24 09:10:17Chapter 11
"Serena. Open the door. It's Arthur."
Inside the server room, Serena Sterling was huddled against a rack of humming supercomputers, gripping a fire extinguisher like a baseball bat. When she heard Arthur's voice, followed by the groans of the dying gang outside, she nearly dropped it.
With trembling hands, she punched the override code into the keypad. The heavy steel door hissed open.
She stared in shock. The hallway looked like a bomb had gone off. Six heavily armed gang members were groaning on the floor, bleeding and broken. Standing in the center of the carnage was Arthur Vance, straightening his cuffs, looking slightly annoyed about a stain on his lapel.
"Arthur..." Serena breathed out, dropping the fire extinguisher. Her legs gave out, and Arthur caught her by the arm, keeping her steady.
"You're safe," Arthur said smoothly. "The servers?"
"Intact," Serena nodded rapidly, still staring at the bodies. "Arthur, how did you do this? They were the Red Vipers. They kill people for a living!"
"And I buy people for a living," Arthur replied cryptically.
Ding.
[EMERGENCY MISSION COMPLETE: Defend the Asset.]
[Target Secured: Serena Sterling / Horizon Neural Tech.]
[Reward: 20,000 SP + 1x Elite Vanguard Summon.]
[Would you like to initiate the Vanguard Summon now? Y/N]
Y, Arthur thought. I need someone to take out the trash.
[Summoning Vanguard...]
The air in the hallway suddenly dropped by ten degrees. The shadows in the corner of the ruined lobby seemed to stretch and twist, pulling together into a physical form. Serena gasped, stumbling backward, pointing at the anomaly. "Arthur, what is that?!"
From the shadows stepped a woman.
She was breathtakingly lethal. She wore a tailored black suit with a blood-red silk shirt underneath. Her hair was stark white, cut in a sharp bob, contrasting fiercely with her piercing crimson eyes. She exuded an aura of absolute, terrifying violence.
She walked past the groaning thugs, stepping over them as if they were puddles of dirty water, and stopped three feet in front of Arthur. Without a word, she dropped to one knee, bowing her head in perfect submission.
"Vanguard Operative 'Vera' answering the Host's call," she said. Her voice was smooth like velvet, but cold as a scalpel. "My life is your currency, Master Vance."
Arthur used the Eye of Insight.
[Target: Vera]
[Status: System Vanguard (Assassin/Bodyguard Class)]
[Loyalty to Host: 100% (Unbreakable, System-Bound)]
[Combat Prowess: Pinnacle Human Level (Immune to conventional small arms fire due to subdermal carbon-weave tissue).]
Arthur smiled. The System really provided the best toys.
"Rise, Vera," Arthur commanded.
Vera stood smoothly, her crimson eyes locking onto the bald gang leader who was currently trying to crawl toward the elevator.
"Serena," Arthur said, turning to the terrified CEO. "Vera is my... executive assistant. She handles my personal security. The two of you are going to finalize the transfer of the seventy-five million dollars into Horizon’s accounts right now."
Serena nodded dumbly, completely overwhelmed by the events. "Okay. Yes. Right away."
Arthur turned his attention back to Vera. "Vera. The bald one crawling away. Bag him. We’re going to make a delivery to Sovereign Hill."
Vera’s lips curled into a dangerously beautiful smile. "With pleasure, sir."
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Chapter 52The crushing pressure of the Mariana Trench was enough to compress a standard nuclear submarine into the size of a soup can. It was a lightless, frozen void where human ambition went to die.Arthur Vance wasn’t human anymore.He stood on the bridge of the Abyssal Leviathan, a deep-sea exploration vessel he had purchased from the Level 5 System Store for an effortless half-million SP. The ship was constructed from self-repairing dark matter and propelled by a frictionless gravity drive. It descended through the pitch-black water at terrifying speeds.Ares stood like a monolith at the back of the bridge, his red optics cutting through the dim cabin lighting. Nemesis hovered near the navigation console, her shadow-wrapped form completely unbothered by the crushing depths outside the viewport. Vera stood directly beside Arthur, her hand resting on her combat blade out of pure habit."Depth: thirty-five thousand feet," the ship’s automated AI reported in a smooth, synthetic voic
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