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Chapter Twenty Four - Shadows That Bleed
Author: Eral Annobil
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The war had changed everything.

The Revenant Project had been a whispered legend among spies, a ghost code name that was meant to give humanity a second chance in the morning of the age of extinction. Now it was a living, breathing storm reshaping the world in fire, steel, and shattered allegiances.

Caden Virek stood on the destroyed citadel in the ruins of Old Zone Nine, the air thick with ionized dust, wind howling through the skeletal skyscrapers like the wails of the damned. His coat billowed behind him, damp from acid rain that leaked through a damaged ozone. The world beneath him was broken, but the fracture in him went deeper.

Sophia approached, her boots crunching over shattered glass and scorched circuitry. Her rifle was slung low, but her posture was tense. “Another raid failed. They’re hitting refugee sectors now.”

Caden didn’t flinch. “He’s forcing a response.”

“He’s burning the world to bait you.”

Caden finally turne
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