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Chapter 96
The ventilation shafts of Solara were the lungs of the Empire. They were massive tunnels of iron and brass that ran from the very bottom of the undercity to the very top of the High Spire. They were always humming. They were always blowing. They carried the hot, stinking breath of the mana-foundries out of the city and pulled the cold, fresh air of the mountains in.But in one specific section of the shafts, the air did not smell fresh. It smelled like a graveyard in the middle of a swamp.Drogo Payne moved through the shadows of a giant, spinning fan. He was eight feet of silent obsidian. He had pushed his violet fire so deep into his bones that he looked like a piece of the wall. He was no longer the "Breaker" who roared at the sky. He was a shadow. He was a secret.In front of him, built into the very guts of the iron shafts, was a mansion.It was not a beautiful palace. It was a grotesque house made of rusted metal, black stone, and bone. It was the home of Baron Mordant. The Ba
Chapter 95
Drogo followed. He didn't run on the ground. He jumped onto the giant pipes hanging from the ceiling. He moved from pipe to pipe, his black claws making no sound on the metal. He was a shadow following a predator.The transport traveled for three miles. It passed through tunnels that were even darker and wetter than the Dross. Finally, it reached a massive fortification.It was a wall of rusted iron and white bone.Drogo stopped on a high ledge. He looked down at the fortress. It was built into a natural cavern. In the center of the fortress was a tall, thin tower that reached all the way to the ceiling. The tower was glowing with a sickly, green light."The Bone-Yard," Drogo said.[ARCHIVE ANALYSIS: THE BONE-YARD.][FUNCTION: BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING PLANT.][OWNER: THE ACADEMY RESEARCH WING.]Drogo watched as the transport drove through the heavy iron gates. He saw the Solaris Guards standing on the walls. They weren't wearing their gold armor here. They wore black leather and silver
Chapter 94
The air in the Dross did not move. It was not like the wind in the mountains or the breeze in the High City. Here, the air was a thick, yellow soup made of recycled smog, steam from the mana-foundries, and the smell of a million people who had forgotten what a bath felt like. It was heavy. It sat in the lungs like wet wool.Drogo Payne moved through this fog like a ghost made of obsidian.He was still suppressed. His violet fire was pushed deep into his marrow, making his skin look like cold, dead charcoal. He was eight feet tall, but he walked with a hunched back, blending into the shadows of the giant, dripping pipes. Every few seconds, a massive thump-thump-thump shook the floor. It was the sound of the Spire’s sewage pumps. They were the heartbeat of the undercity, pushing the waste of the rich down into the dark and pulling the "clean" energy of the poor upward.Drogo was mapping the world.Inside his mind, the Abyssal Archive was drawing a new map. It was not a map of streets
Chapter 93
The sub-levels of Solara were a world of rust and secrets. Deep beneath the beautiful marble streets, the air was thick with the smell of old metal and sour vinegar. There was no sun here. There was only the green glow of the mana-mushrooms and the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of the giant golden pipes.Drogo Payne sat in the shadows of a massive water tank. He was no longer the screaming monster that had fallen from the sky. He was quiet. He was still. His obsidian skin was dull, looking like common coal. He had pushed his violet fire so deep into his bones that even the most sensitive magic-tracker would only see him as a piece of cold stone.But inside, Drogo was changing. He was no longer just a boy who wanted to save his sister. He was no longer just a beast that wanted to eat the world. He was becoming something new. He was becoming a strategist.[VITALITY: 8%.][MANA: 0.5%.][CORE STATUS: RE-CALIBRATING.][HUMANITY: 0.00%.]Drogo reached out and touched the Aorta, the giant gol
Chapter 92
The room was huge and cold. Thousands of small, iron boxes were stacked from the floor to the ceiling. Inside each box was a person.These were not the "Dregs" who fought. These were the "Hollows."They were people who had been discarded by the Empire. Old servants, failed students, and Nulls who were too weak to work. They were thin, their skin like gray paper. Their eyes were open, but they were staring at nothing.Each person had a silver needle stuck into the back of their neck. The needles were connected to thin wires that led to the golden tube.Drogo walked past the cages. He saw a woman who looked like she was a hundred years old, but her hands were small, like a child's. He saw a man whose legs had been replaced by metal rods.They were all whispering. "Holy is the Sun..." the woman whispered."Pure is the Light..." the man echoed.They were not praying because they loved the Emperor. They were praying because the needles were forcing them to. The machines were "harvesting
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The darkness of the sub-levels was not a quiet darkness. It was a place of constant, low-frequency noise. It was the sound of a giant heart beating, but the heart was made of iron and steam. Drogo Payne lay in his hole between the rusted pipes, his eyes closed. He was not sleeping anymore. He was listening. But before he could plan, he had to fix his body.Drogo sat up. The movement made his obsidian skin crack like dry mud. He looked at his right side. During the fall from the Apex Tier, a piece of the golden Aegis shield had broken off. It was a shard of prismatic metal, three inches long and sharp as a razor. It was not just stuck in his skin; it had melted into his obsidian flesh.The shard was glowing with a faint, annoying white light. It was like a splinter of the sun that refused to go out. Every time Drogo’s Abyssal Core tried to pulse, the shard would vibrate, sending a wave of white-hot pain through his nerves."I cannot... hide... with this inside me," Drogo whispered.
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