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CHAPTER 90 – CONFRONTATION WITH THE PRIME SCALPEL
The Prime Scalpel stepped forward, his figure bathed in the sickly neon glow of Helix Tower. Every movement was precise, controlled, unnervingly calm, like a surgeon approaching the operating table, except the patient was alive, defiant, and armed with a curse meant to destroy him.Raymond’s fists burned with black-and-green energy, the System’s regenerative protocols intertwined with the cursed power pulsing beneath his skin. Beside him, the clone mirrored his stance, tentative but growing more confident.Sophia, weak yet resolute, clutched his arm. “Raymond… he’s not human anymore. He’s… something beyond.”Raymond’s brown eyes flickered black for an instant, then back to brown. “Then we fight on our terms.”Marcus cracked his gauntlets. “I’m ready. Let’s finally end this.”Azriel raised her staff. “The Tower itself will interfere. We need to move as one.”Lira’s knives gleamed. “Then we cut through the chaos.”The Prime Scalpel didn’t wait. His hand shot out, and the air split with
CHAPTER 89 – THE MIRROR OF BLOOD
Raymond froze.The body on the table was him, his own face, his own features, but pale, twisted, and struggling for breath. Every faint pulse of the chest sent a shiver through the metallic hall.Azriel stepped back, eyes wide. “He… he’s a clone! Or a construct. Something the Prime Scalpel made to… test you.”Lira’s knives twitched in her hands. “Why? Why would he do this?”Raymond didn’t answer. His pulse raced, not from fear, but recognition. He had felt this before, when the System whispered inside him, when the curse coiled and pulsed like a heartbeat of darkness. He had sensed potential. Potential… himself.Sophia’s weak voice broke through the tension. “Raymond… you can save him… or you can…” Her words trailed off.The curse inside him stirred, whispering like silk sliding over a blade: «Excise the weakness. End the failed experiment.»Raymond clenched his fists. The System chimed urgently: [CURSED ENERGY DETECTED] [STABILITY RISK: HIGH] [MEDICAL OUTCOME: CRITICAL]His eyes flic
CHAPTER 88 – THE TOWER THAT BREATHED
The first sign that Helix Tower was awake, truly awake, came long before Raymond and the others reached the neon skyline.It came from the sky.A deep metallic groan rolled across the horizon, like a titan stretching in its sleep. The clouds above the city split apart as if pushed from below, forming a spiral around a single rising column of crimson light.Raymond stopped on the ridge overlooking the vast Helix District. His breath tightened.Azriel whispered, “That’s not a security alert… that’s a system awakening.”Lira’s eyes narrowed. “The tower’s… alive.”Marcus adjusted his gauntlets, scanning the coils of red light. “Feels like it’s calling something.”Sophia, weak but conscious now, leaned against a tree, her celestial glow dim but flickering. “No… not something. It’s calling him.”Raymond didn’t turn.He already knew who she meant.The Prime Scalpel.The one who had shaped the curse in his blood.The one who had called him “successor.”The one who had tried to overwrite his i
CHAPTER 87 – THE BLACK AURA UNBOUND
Raymond didn’t fall.He rose, violently, lifted by a column of black, spiraling energy that cracked the ground beneath him. The air warped, bending around the sudden burst of power as if reality itself wanted to pull away from him.His team shielded their faces.Marcus squinted through the roiling darkness. “Ray, pull it back! You’re gonna rip yourself apart!”Raymond couldn’t answer.He was barely breathing.Barely human.The curse inside him, once a whisper, now howled through every artery.«Let me guide the transformation. You don’t need to think. Just surrender.»The voice wasn’t the System.It wasn’t the curse.It was something older, buried deep within the Forbidden Protocol like a bone-etched command.Raymond clenched his jaw and roared against it, veins bulging black along his neck.The energy around him expanded again, bursting outward in a shockwave that sent trees snapping like brittle glass.Azriel stabbed her staff into the ground to brace herself. “This isn’t just corrup
CHAPTER 86 – THE SCALPEL HUNTERS’ MANDATE
Eight Scalpel Hunters surged into the clearing, silent, masked silhouettes etched in chrome and shadow. Their movements weren’t human; they glided like blades carried by the wind, perfectly synchronized.Raymond stepped forward to meet them, curse already igniting beneath his skin like black wildfire.His team behind him tensed.Marcus lifted his gauntlets. “Ray, don’t get surrounded!”Too late.The Hunters blurred, and the kill box snapped shut.SHRRIP.A hooked blade sliced at Raymond’s ribs.He twisted, grabbed the attacker’s wrist, and drove his elbow into the mask, hard enough to crack metal.The Hunter didn’t grunt.Didn’t flinch.Didn’t feel.The mask twisted back into place with a mechanical click.“Target: resistant. Increasing force.”Another Hunter vaulted over the first and came down with a descending saw-blade meant to bisect Raymond’s skull.He pivoted fast.Faster than he should’ve been able to.The curse surged like a tide within him, whispering: “More. More. Tear the
CHAPTER 85 – THE SKY THAT BURNED FOR HIM
The bolt of white celestial fire slammed into the ground between Raymond and the three advancing mechs. The explosion erupted like a star being born, light swallowed the clearing, heat ripping through the air in expanding rings.Raymond dropped instantly, covering his face with his forearm as dust and burning leaves shot past him. The shockwave flattened trees. The mechs staggered, alarms blaring in metallic panic.When the radiance faded enough for him to squint through, someone descended from the sky.Not fell.Descended.Wings of pale, radiant flame unfurled behind a slim silhouette. Hair of silver-gold drifted as if suspended underwater. Her boots touched the ground amid a swirl of stardust.Raymond’s breath caught.“Sophia…?”The Celestial Healer opened her eyes, pure white, no pupil, no iris. An angelic glow pulsed from her skin, too bright, too controlled.She wasn’t just using power.She was channeling something ancient.Something dangerous.“Raymond,” she said softly, her voi
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