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Chapter 108: Harwell
The transfer facility was exactly where Mira's intelligence said it would be.Marcus stood on a rooftop a quarter-mile away, watching through the convergence reader. Massive warehouses. Heavily shielded. Guards in organized patterns.And eight divine beings. He could feel their presence."Team positions?" Marcus asked.Diana's voice came through the communication crystal. "Team one ready.""Team two ready," Brutus reported."Team three in position," Vex said.The five divine beings who had arrived with Thalia stood separate. Waiting."Divine support teams," Marcus said. "Ready?""Ready," Alexander confirmed."Ready," Thalia said.Marcus studied the facility through the convergence reader. Eight divine beings inside. All positioned near the dimensional energy storage. Not spread throughout the building. Concentrated in one location.Like they were waiting for something."Change of plan," Marcus said quietly."What kind of change?" Diana asked."The divine beings inside are positioned w
Chapter 107: Unexpected Ally
Four days before the Harwell operation, Marcus received an unexpected visitor.The palace guards announced her arrival at dawn. A divine being requesting immediate audience. No weapons. No escort. Just one person who claimed to have critical information.Marcus met her in the throne room with Alexander and Sora present. Security, not hospitality.The divine being was tall, silver-haired, wearing simple traveling clothes. She looked tired. Like someone who had journeyed far without rest."King Marcus," she said. "My name is Thalia. I serve on the Divine Council. Or I did, until three days ago when I resigned my position."Marcus studied her carefully. "Why?""Because I learned what Carven is actually planning. And I could not remain complicit in convergence erasure." She pulled out documentation. "I brought evidence. Internal communications. Construction specifications for Carven's central device. Timeline projections. Everything I could gather before leaving the Divine Cosmos."Alexan
Chapter 106: Carven's Response
Three days after the seventh realm strike, Carven sent a message.It arrived through formal channels. A sealed letter delivered by a neutral courier. The handwriting was perfect. The seal was the Divine Cosmos mark.Marcus read it alone in his study.King Marcus,Your sabotage of the seventh realm extraction site was noted. Impressive coordination. Minimal casualties. Professional execution.However, you have made a strategic error. By destroying extraction equipment at one site, you have forced me to accelerate operations at the remaining sites. What was planned to take months will now take weeks.I am increasing extraction rates by three hundred percent across all active keystone sites. Dimensional stability will degrade faster. Corruption will spread more aggressively. And the convergence collapse timeline has been moved forward.You now have six weeks. Not three months.Use them wisely.CarvenMarcus read the letter twice. Then called an emergency meeting.Vex, Diana, Brutus, Lydi
Chapter 105: The First Strike
Marcus studied the keystone site documentation at dawn.Fourteen sites total. One protected. Thirteen vulnerable.Three sites were less than twenty percent corrupted. Recoverable.Five sites were forty to sixty percent corrupted. Difficult but possible.Four sites were over seventy percent corrupted. Probably too far gone.And one site showed ninety percent corruption. The temple in the seventh realm. Extraction equipment fully operational. Guards stationed permanently."We start with the ninety percent site," Marcus said.Everyone looked at him."That makes no strategic sense," Diana said. "We should prioritize sites we can actually save.""Normally, yes. But Carven expects that. He expects us to save recoverable sites while he completes extraction on corrupted ones." Marcus tapped the temple location. "So we do the opposite. We hit his most advanced operation first. Destroy the equipment. Force him to rebuild. Buy time.""Even if we destroy the equipment, the site is ninety percent
Chapter 104: The River Anchor
Three days passed exactly as planned.Vex's forces withdrew from the second and third realms on schedule. Diana's observers confirmed complete evacuation. No deception. No hidden troops. Just professional military withdrawal executed with precision.Marcus watched the final transport leave the third realm at dawn. Vex had kept his word.Now it was Marcus's turn.The river waited. Cold water flowing over stones. The same place where seven-year-old Marcus had nearly drowned. Where his will to survive had been forged. Where he had cleansed corruption weeks ago.And now, the place where he would anchor himself permanently.Sora arrived first. She brought crystalline structures. Dimensional measuring devices."Dual anchoring is not common," Sora said. "You are already anchored to Helena. Adding a second anchor creates dimensional complexity.""What kind of complexity?""Think of it like a rope tied between two posts. Helena is one post. The river will be the other. The tension keeps the ro
Chapter 103: Alliance
Marcus arrived at the Threshold Gate precisely at noon.Vex was already there. He stood alone on the floating platform, no guards, no advisors. Just a man waiting to negotiate the most important agreement of his life.Marcus had brought Lydia, Diana, and Mira. Brutus remained in the first realm, ready to respond if this turned into a trap."King Marcus," Vex said. "You verified the three sites.""I did. Ashford. Seawatch. The temple. All compromised exactly as you described." Marcus stepped forward. "Which means we need to discuss how to stop Carven before he completes his erasure sequence.""Agreed. But first, I want to show you something." Vex pulled out a communication crystal. "This arrived yesterday. From the Divine Cosmos. From Carven himself."He activated the crystal. Carven's voice emerged, cold and precise.General Vex. Your withdrawal from the occupied realms has been noted. This action constitutes insubordination and will be addressed appropriately. You are hereby relieved
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