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Chapter 76: Pop Princess vs. Underdog King
Cameras flashed her face. The media swarmed. Evangeline’s smile never wavered, but a flicker of cold calculation flashed in her eyes.Victor Harland leaned into her ear, whispering something. She laughed softly, raising her glass in a mock toast toward Jaylen.The trap had been set. And Jaylen had walked right into it.The night of the showdown arrived in a wave waiting to break. London’s O2 Arena pulsed with bright lights, the atmosphere simmered with anticipation. Outside, thousands of fans swarmed the gates, some dressed in Evangeline Frost’s platinum-glitter merchandise. Others held hastily made cardboard signs screaming Jaylen’s name.Jaylen stood backstage with headphones around his neck and his heart rose like a steady drum in his chest. He had been here before in smaller venues, tighter crowds but never on a battlefield this rigged. Every whisper in the corridors told the same story, Evangeline’s billionaire sponsor had bought everything that could be bought. Judges were alr
Chapter 75: The Shattered Stage
Jaylen Cruz's rise had been nothing short of emergy. His last performance was a raw and unfiltered set that bled with emotion. It was still trending through social media feeds like a siren’s call. Clips of him tearing the stage apart were replayed on countless fan accounts with hashtags swarming in his name.“#RealStarJaylen. #KingInTheMaking.”For the first time since clawing his way out of obscurity, Jaylen felt the world tilting in his favor. The doubters had went quiet after that event. The blogs that once mocked and looked down on him now grudgingly admitted that his rise couldn't be overlooked. Every of his new follower, new sponsor and every roar from the crowd felt like a fuel to his fame. But momentum was a fragile crown. And it was about to be snatched.It started with murmurs from blog headlines making strange posts from industry insiders.“A true queen is returning.”“The comeback that will freeze the charts.”“Goodbye rookies. The real star is back.”Jaylen’s manager, M
Chapter 74: Ruckus in the Underground
The night air in New York was heavy with low pitch from the MC, neon, and gasoline, but Jaylen didn’t walk the usual boulevards of Manhattan this time. His boots crunched against cracked tiles as he descended into a sealed stairwell behind a derelict convenience store. The System had pulsed once more in his head. Its sharp chime echoed louder than the rumbling subway below.“System Alert: Enemy 003 Detected.DJ Ruckus – Hacker of Sound. Objective: Crush the Underground Syndicate.”Jaylen exhaled, tightening his jacket as the stale underground air rushed into his lungs. “Another one waiting,” he muttered. His path had already drawn blood and humiliation from Marcus Slade and Selene Rayne. But now, whispers told of a dark emperor of beats who never played above the ground. DJ Ruckus, the name alone carried both fear and frenzy in the veins of New York’s nightlife.The deeper Jaylen went, the louder the bass became. It wasn't a normal bass. Each thump carried a coded aftershock effect.
Chapter 73: Shattering Illusions
The roar of Madison Square Garden had turned to chaos. What should have been Jaylen’s crowning debut in the United States was collapsing under Selene Rayne’s trickery.Across the big screens, twisted holograms of Jaylen showed him in mugshots, police cuffs, even grotesque caricatures with devil horns. Security rushed the stage, tasers were ready, convinced the illusions were evidence of some dark past. Sponsors in the VIP box whispered frantically. They brought out their phones as they started reconsidering their contracts.And backstage, Selene stood with her velvet dress glowing under the stage lights. She had a cruel smirk curling on her lips. She lifted a hand, and the holographic Jaylen on-screen sneered, mouthing words the real Jaylen hadn’t spoken, “This city will burn with me.”The audience gasped.“System Alert,” the HUD in Jaylen’s mind chimed.“Crisis Quest Triggered: Defeat Enemy 002 – Selene Rayne.Failure Penalty: Reputation -70%. Sponsorship Collapse and tour Cancellati
Chapter 72: Enter Selene Rayne
The System voice rang in Jaylen’s head the morning of his first official U.S. showcase, “Enemy 002 Detected: Selene Rayne – The Illusion Queen. Objective: Survive the Showcase.”Jaylen closed his eyes, feeling the weight of it. He had barely crushed Marcus Slade last night, and already the battlefield shifted. The enemy this time around wasn’t brute bass and monopolized airwaves. It was perception itself.He stood inside Madison Square Garden, staring at the vast arena where he was set to perform that night. Rows of empty seats were lined upward like a cathedral of sound, waiting to be filled with thousands of voices. His crew hustled around, setting cables, testing speakers and programming holograms. Yet, from the first hour of rehearsal, something was off.A pyro cue fired too early, nearly singeing a dancer’s hair. A hologram of Jaylen appeared mid-song, except that the image had distorted into a grotesque caricature. His face was stretched while his jaw drooped like a clown. The
Chapter 71: Titan of Beats Showdown
The night was supposed to be Jaylen’s first taste of the American stage. Instead, it felt like walking into an enemy territory. The System’s warning from earlier still echoed in his skull like an invisible siren.“System Alert: Hostile Force Engaged. Enemy 001: Marcus Slade – Titan of Beats. Objective: Survive and Dominate.”Jaylen had been booked for a secret underground show in Brooklyn. It was a place the System itself flagged as the gateway to New York’s hidden circuits. Word had spread fast, lines curling down the block, eager faces were ready to witness the man who had torn Europe apart with nothing but raw lyric and rhythm.But as soon as he and his team pushed through the back door of the dim, sweat-soaked club, something felt really wrong.The bass that wasn't his own was already pounding.Onstage, a hulking man in a gold-thread suit stood before a fortress of speakers. His face was half-lit by LED strobes. The crowd wasn’t cheering. The beat was so heavy, so unnatural that p
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