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Chapter 75. The Ghost Returns
Downtown Lumeria blazed with light that night, bright as midday. Thousands of golden lanterns floated through the sky, illuminating the marble streets below, where crimson carpets stretched across polished white stone. A symphony orchestra played elegant classical music, drowning out the distant echoes of explosions that had shaken Sector Three and the cloud border only hours earlier. For the elite citizens of the Upper City, tonight was the Festival of Light, the annual celebration honoring the magical barrier that protected Lumeria from the filthy world below. Benedict Archibald had made certain that news of his fallen aerial fleet never reached the ears of civilians in the commercial district. To them, Lumeria remained an untouchable utopia. Nobles danced in flowing silk gowns. Crystal glasses filled with red wine chimed softly together. Laughter drifted through conversations about aerial trade beneath the warm glow of the lanterns. Then a wet sound from the river cutting thr
Chapter 74. Isabella's Death (Trigger)
A single second suspended in empty air felt like thousands of years of suffering repeating itself.Clive fell.Gravity dragged him down without mercy, forcing him to stare at the White Palace balcony growing farther and farther above him. His hand, still nothing more than translucent smoke, reached upward in vain, unable to grasp the only hand that had offered him warmth in this wretched world.At the edge of the balcony stood Isabella.The night wind stirred her golden hair.She wasn't crying anymore.She looked at Clive with the gentlest smile, the smile of someone who had finally set a caged bird free, even though she knew the cage itself would soon be burned to ashes.Then Benedict Archibald raised his golden pistol and aimed it directly between his own daughter's shoulder blades."NO!" Clive screamed into the empty sky.His vocal cords tore apart.Benedict didn't even blink.There wasn't a trace of hesitation in his eyes. No hesitation from a father.He saw only a traitor who had
Chapter 73. Escape Beneath the Moonlight
"Wake up, Clive," Isabella whispered, tears streaming down her cheeks. With trembling hands, she held out a Radiant Guard short-barreled rifle.Clive forced the last remnants of his consciousness to respond. He reached out with his right arm, the only one that was still human, to take the weapon.Then something horrifying happened.Instead of touching the rifle's metal grip, his fingers passed straight through it. His hand blurred, fading into a cloud of translucent black smoke before slowly solidifying again a few seconds later.Clive gasped and collapsed back onto the floor. He stared at his hand in horror."B-Boss..." Lycus groaned from inside his chest. The parasite's voice came in broken bursts, like a radio losing its signal. "My particles... they're falling apart. That machine tore apart the cellular bond between me and your body. I... I can't keep a solid form anymore..."[Critical System... Physical Integrity: 32%... Cellular Deconstruction in Progress...]"Your body..." Isab
Chapter 72. Soul Extraction, Day One
The Extraction Chamber beneath the White Palace looked nothing like a medical facility.It resembled a slaughterhouse designed by a mad god.Its walls were built from an alloy of white steel and conductive crystal. At the center of the chamber stood a colossal machine shaped like a mechanical cross. Cables as thick as a grown man's arm hung from the ceiling, connected to empty vacuum-sealed glass cylinders.Clive Collins was nailed to that mechanical cross.Not with ropes or handcuffs, but with dozens of steel spikes driven straight through his palms, ankles, and joints, pinning his body to the metal frame. The left side of his chest had been left open, exposing Lycus' mass of pitch-black muscle, beating slowly in place of his heart.Around him, four faceless Inquisitors in gray robes worked in silence, turning massive levers and entering magical commands into the control consoles.From the safety of a glass observation balcony, well beyond the reach of any blood spray, Benedict Archi
Chapter 71. The Creator and His Creation
The light inside the crystal mirror cell had dimmed, but the heat was still intense enough to keep sweat mixed with blood dripping from the tip of Clive's chin. Suspended in the air by a magnetic field like a man on a cross, he struggled to breathe while Benedict Archibald stood before him, flawless and untouched."A masterpiece," Benedict murmured as he circled Clive's body like a connoisseur inspecting a sculpture in an art gallery. "Do you know why your grandfather and your father had to be eliminated, Clive? Because they were narrow-minded. They carried the Foundation Code in their blood, yet all they ever used it for was keeping the obsolete machines of the Under Kingdom running.""The... Foundation Code?" Clive hissed, suppressing the agonizing pulse in his chest as Lycus's heart pumped black blood through his body, desperately trying to regenerate his scorched flesh."Boss, don't listen to this lunatic. Just focus on surviving the pain," Lycus groaned from within Clive's chest.
Chapter 70. The Meeting in the Forbidden Garden
The air beyond the white steel hatch felt profoundly wrong.For Clive, who had spent his entire life breathing the polluted air of Lower Lumeria mixed with the metallic stench of blood, inhaling the atmosphere inside the White Palace's hidden passage felt like swallowing perfume that was far too strong. It carried the scents of roses, jasmine, and sterilization magic.Clive pulled himself out of the hatch and landed on polished marble covered with soft synthetic green grass. Rising to his feet, he brushed the sewer grime from his black cloak. Blood dripped from his wounds, instantly staining the pristine grass beneath him.He wasn't in an underground prison chamber or a guard corridor.He was standing inside an enclosed garden.A gigantic glass dome sheltered the space, allowing genuine starlight and moonlight, not artificial illumination, to shine upon silver trees and crystal flowers blooming in complete silence. This was the Forbidden Garden, the late Queen of Lumeria's private san
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