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Chapter 74: The Metal Field
The world here ran smooth and cold underfoot, the ground hard enough that every step landed with a dull, ringing thunk solid metal, through and through.Metal crystal formations rose on every side, nature's raw geometry rendered in gleaming ore every size, every color, each one polished bright enough to pass for sculpture."What in the world is going on..."Bram and the others had been standing outside the hotel one moment. Now they stood somewhere entirely different, with no trace of the building anywhere in sight."It's a domain."Holt's expression darkened. Pulling four special-tier operatives into a field simultaneously, with no visible boundary anywhere in range, told him everything about the strength behind it."Zombies can cast domains now? Or does this thing actually have human help?"Bram couldn't fully accept Holt's read. Some part of him kept looking for a human hand behind all this, some betrayal explaining it away."Stay calm. Domain or not, it means nothing against real
Chapter 73: Starlight Sight
Chase had originally planned to head straight for sublevel ten to check on Miles, but a red-core signature shifting position mid-night caught his attention first.Nobody moved around the base this late, which made even the already-rare red signatures stand out sharply.He clocked it immediately the gamer he'd observed earlier was closing in on another red signature. Grant's.He still didn't have a clear read on what Grant's Queen Ant ability actually did. Same with the gamer's Starlight Sight, unclear function, twenty minutes of prior observation having turned up nothing beyond someone parked in front of a screen.That same twenty minutes had also made clear the gamer wasn't expected to contribute anything productive no assigned tasks, a room stocked generously with food and drink. That kind of treatment alone was enough to make Chase genuinely curious what the guy actually did to earn it.He tracked the signature converging on Grant's location and followed, slipping into her room's s
Chapter 72: I'm Not a Traitor
"My head hurts. Weird feels like I just woke up from some really long dream...""hiss"A flood of memory crashed into her all at once, foreign and yet somehow completely her own.The girl sat blinking for a moment, disoriented. Her own memories were perfectly clear. But layered underneath them sat someone else's entire life vivid, complete, and not hers at all.Something else lingered underneath all of it too. A regret, buried deep, with no clear shape she could name."Lazy girl, get UP, you'll be late for dance again!""I'm up, Mom, I'm up just a headache.""A headache, at your age? Sounds like an excuse to me."Her mother clocked something faintly off in her daughter's tone but wrote it off as an act, raising a hand in mock threat to hurry her along.The girl scrambled up, dressed, washed, and grabbed a quick glass of milk for breakfast her mother kept her diet tightly controlled, zero tolerance for extra weight.On the walk to the studio, she sank into thought.A regret. Why would
Chapter 71: An Unplanned Coma
"Dad Dad, your nose is bleeding."Nina's voice cut through, small and worried. Victor's chest heaved violently, the whole room tilting around him.A high, electronic whine filled his ears, and his balance gave out entirely. He hit the ground, the plate in his hands shattering beside him."Nina's dad? NINA'S DAD? What's wrong?!"Denise spotted him collapse across the cafeteria and rushed over. Victor's face had gone bloodless, blood streaming freely from his nose."Someone get Chase! NOW!"Denise's panic spiked hard. Symptoms like this read as genuinely serious, and this base didn't have a doctor Chase's healing was the only real medical option they had.Victor understood exactly what was happening to him. The first rewind, only a few hours' worth, had left him mildly dizzy at worst.This time, a full day's reversal had put a considerably heavier strain on his body than he'd anticipated.None of that mattered next to Nina's life. Trading his own condition for hers wasn't even a real qu
Chapter 70: Possession
"Say that again? Adrian's alive but he's turned on us?!"Grant couldn't process it at first. Adrian, operating alongside Subject One?"Confirmed, Director. I tried breaking whatever control he was under. Nothing happened. This looks like his own choice, not manipulation..."Grant had no framework for why Adrian would defect. And Cyrus if Cyrus was conscious somewhere in all this, his cards alone should've gotten him clear by now. Why no word at all?Still unconscious? Dead? Or... the same as Adrian?She didn't let herself finish that last thought."The commander and I couldn't touch Captain Adrian. He made it clear come back, and it's a death sentence. Our team's off Riverside assignments permanently."Bram's report came out flat, deflated. Special-tier was special-tier on paper, but everyone knew raw ability development varied wildly within that same bracket. Adrian had clearly outpaced him by a wide margin."And the others?"Grant clung to the hope that Chicago's four operatives, at
Chapter 69: Soul Contract
Sandra had reconstructed herself in front of that mirror with something close to euphoria.She'd pictured young cells replacing old ones throughout her entire body. A narrow waist. A face worth looking at twice.Younger, thinner, prettier than the girl who'd stolen her promotion.The world worships young and pretty. Fine. I can be young and pretty too, apparently.Looking at the girl staring back from the mirror, she understood immediately tired, worn-down Sandra was gone. In her place: someone beautiful enough that nobody would ever question her again.She'd admired the firm cheeks, the narrow waist, smiling at her own reflection with real satisfaction.From there, she'd practiced deliberately copying the mannerisms of youth, the tone, the small physical tics. It felt unnatural at first. Didn't matter. Nobody criticizes a beautiful girl for anything.The world's never been fair. But for once, I'm the one it's favoring.Even mid-apocalypse, life had genuinely never felt better to her
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