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CHAPTER 80: A Poisonous Offer
The Aurellian sky was never dark.The yellowish light from the combat zeppelin armada hung low like artificial stars, cold and untouchable. Beneath it, the Archduke's military complex moved resembling a giant machine that refused to sleep. Supply chains, infantry lines, and the roar of steam artillery, all ran in a precise rhythm.This was the nerve center of the invasion. The place where lives were translated into numbers and strategy.And into the middle of that machine system, Kaida walked in.The high-ranking officer who met her at the outer gate dared not take a risk. The bait Kaida threw that night—the name Arok and the Cloud Pagoda route—was too massive to ignore. They did not kill her, nor did they hold her in an interrogation cell. They escorted her straight to the heart of this machine.Kaida was no longer an infiltrator. She had mutated into a crucial variable.Her steps remained calm.She had passed two layers of security. Not with violence, nor with cheap trickery. She pa
CHAPTER 79: Equivalent Exchange
Blood dripped onto the metal floor.One drop every two seconds.Ganda stood upright in front of Paka's work desk. His face was as pale as a corpse, but his posture refused to sway. The cloak fabric on his shoulder was already soaked with a dark red color. Sora stood right next to his left. Their shoulders almost touched.Sora's hand hung freely, ready to catch Ganda's body at any moment. Ganda glanced briefly toward Sora. A small nod. Sora replied with a slow breath, relaxing her jaw.Niko dropped the copper cylinder onto the desk.BOOM."As ordered," Niko said. His breathing was rapid.Paka did not immediately look at the generator core. His eyes stared at the remains of Ganda's right arm severed at the elbow. Then his gaze shifted piercing the room, staring at the barefoot old man behind them.The man's face was battered. Paka's left eyebrow rose."What happened to his face?""He is lucky his head is still in the place it should be." A crossroad of veins appeared on Sora's forehead.
CHAPTER 78: Trauma, Anger And Sacrifice
The chest-high water was not merely an obstacle. For that old man, the water was his weapon.He dove back in. The dark water surface hid all his movements.Sora swung her katana a
CHAPTER 77: The Heart At The Bottom Of The Grave
The list was written on a torn piece of dirty paper with leftover charcoal. Niko stared at Elara's handwriting. He let out a long breath, blowing the cold port air through his mouth.
CHAPTER 76: The Dead Machine
The port fog did not enter the ship.The fog stopped exactly at the boundary of the hull, as if even the coastal air of Kagane was reluctant to touch something that had returned from the southern polar waters.The Carrion Unit boarded the deck of the old whaling ship without a word of welcome. There were no pilot ropes lowered. There was no crew to greet them. There was only the sound of the anchor chain creaking softly blown by the wind, holding back something that logically should have long sunk to the bottom of the ocean trench.Elara stepped up first.The architect girl led not because she felt brave. She walked first because her curiosity was far stronger than her fear of death.Her footsteps felt strange. The black ironwood beneath her feet felt wrong. The deck planks were not decayed and brittle like wood frequently exposed to saltwater. The wood surface actually felt too hard, too dense, as if the entire structure of this ship had once been pressed with extraordinary force by
CHAPTER 75: Everything Has A Price
The fog over that ash port never truly left. It only shifted slowly, merely making room for new people to get lost in it.The Carrion Unit walked away from the metal tower where Paka stood.
