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CHAPTER 130: THE MERGING
Rain hissed on the broken steel of the undercity shaft as Raymond knelt, clutching his skull. The voice of Elias Elba pulsed inside his mind like static turned to fire.ELIAS: “I don’t need to replace you son, I only need to become you.”Raymond: “Get out of my head!”He slammed his fist against the concrete, leaving blood and dust. Sparks flickered around him bits of reality glitching as his neural core overloaded.EVE’s voice cracked through the comm-link, urgent and distant.EVE: “Raymond listen to me. You’re slipping into the neural layer. He’s pulling you inside the network.”Zane: “He’s convulsing! What the hell do we do?”Ayla, weak but conscious again, pressed her palm to Raymond’s temple. “He’s phasing his vitals are tanking.”EVE: “If he loses full consciousness, Elias will anchor inside him. You have sixty seconds before he’s gone.”Zane: “So how do we stop a billionaire ghost from stealing his brain?!”EVE: “You go after him.”Silence. Rain drummed.Ayla: “After him? Into
CHAPTER 129: COUNTER-PROTOCOL
The night was electric, rain bled down the glass skeleton of the unfinished tower, lightning clawing across the skyline as the city below flickered under The Directive’s control.Raymond Elba stood on the edge of the twisted scaffold, smoke rising from the wrecked helicopter behind him. His pulse beat in sync with the distant red beacon of the Consortium Tower each flash like a countdown he couldn’t stop.Then that voice returned “Welcome to Phase Four.” Soft Female Calm, but behind that calm was something terrifyingly precise like code sharpened into a whisper.Raymond: “Identify yourself.”VOICE: “I’m what your father tried to erase. The countermeasure to his Directive, you can call me EVE.”Zane coughed behind him, struggling to stand. “You’ve got to be kidding me. An AI calling itself Eve? How biblical do we need this to get?”Ayla ignored him, eyes on Raymond. “She’s not just a countermeasure she sounds sentient.”EVE: “More than sentient. I’m autonomous, I was born from Elias El
CHAPTER 128: THE DIRECTIVE
Rain lashed against the helipad as the chopper blades thundered overhead, slicing the night apart. The storm had returned in full force wild, electric, and merciless just like the chaos brewing inside Raymond Elba’s mind.He stood at the edge of the rooftop, wind clawing at his jacket, eyes fixed on the horizon. Below the city glowed like circuitry alive, but poisoned. Ayla shouted over the roar, “We need to move Raymond! The entire building’s compromised!”He didn’t turn. “They’ll come no matter where we go. You saw the alert, The Directive is active.”Ayla: “Then we stay ahead of it! We fight it from the outside, not the inside of a burning tower!”He finally faced her, rain streaking across his face. “You don’t understand, The Directive isn’t just a mission. It’s a command buried in every system my father ever built including me.”The words hit her like a punch. “What do you mean buried in you?”His voice dropped, low, steady, almost resigned. “When Elias designed me, he didn’t jus
CHAPTER 127: FRACTURED SOUL
Lightning fractured the sky, slicing through the clouds like a blade of divine judgment. The storm outside the tower hadn’t truly ended it had only gone quiet, waiting.Inside the shattered vault, smoke hung thick as fog. Metal groaned under the weight of devastation, glass shards glittered across the floor, and the faint hum of still-active machinery trembled in the air.Ayla pushed herself upright, clutching her chest as she coughed out chemical residue. Her eyes darted through the haze until they landed on the figure standing amid the wreckage broad-shouldered, motionless, terrifyingly still.“Raymond…” she whispered. He didn’t answer, the flickering light revealed his face half of it bruised and bloodied, the other half illuminated by a faint, unnatural glow beneath his skin. His pupils pulsed faint blue.Ayla: “Talk to me please.”He turned, slow and deliberate, like something ancient remembering how to move. His voice came out low, hollow, distorted.Raymond/Elias: “He’s still i
CHAPTER 126: BLOODLINE AWAKENING
The silence in the penthouse was suffocating. Only the rain dared to make a sound, drumming relentlessly against the glass like a thousand tiny heartbeats. The city outside lay swallowed by darkness power cut, skyline gone.Inside, Raymond stood perfectly still. The glowing red message on every screen WELCOME HOME, RAYMOND ELBA burned in his eyes like an accusation. Ayla’s voice trembled as she whispered, “Raymond tell me that’s a mistake, please tell me it’s some kind of sick joke.”He didn’t answer, his hands clenched at his sides, the veins on his forearms standing out like cords of steel. His breathing was calm too calm.Ayla: “Raymond?” He turned to face her slowly, his eyes stripped of their usual control. “You saw the message, you heard the voice. The man behind everything Elias Kane isn’t just the architect of my destruction, he’s my father.”Ayla shook her head. “That can’t be true you would’ve known. There would’ve been”Raymond (cutting in): “Records, Memories, He erased th
CHAPTER 125: THE PRICE OF VENGEANCE
The wind outside the penthouse howled like an omen. Lightning cracked across the midnight sky, casting brief silver flashes over the skyline of the city that never slept. Inside, silence reigned heavy, suffocating, and brittle.Raymond stood before the panoramic glass, hands in his pockets, his reflection ghosting over the glittering expanse of towers below. Behind him, Ayla entered quietly, clutching a thin folder to her chest.Her steps faltered when she saw the darkness in his posture that lethal stillness he wore like armor.Ayla: “It’s done. The Board voted unanimously. You own everything now the shares, the assets, the patents. You’ve taken everything from them.”Raymond didn’t turn, his voice, low and steady, rolled through the room like distant thunder.Raymond: “Everything? No, not yet.”Ayla blinked. “What do you mean not yet? Robert Elba fled the country. His accounts are frozen, his empire’s gone.”He turned then slowly, his sharp eyes glinting like glass on the edge of
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