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Chapter 145 – Awakening of the Crimson Vault
The ground trembled beneath their feet as the hidden passage yawned open, exhaling a wind that smelled of iron and ashes. The torches lining the chamber flickered wildly, their flames straining toward the darkness below as if drawn by some ancient hunger.Chike stood unmoved, his hand still gripping the bloodstained dagger. The others staggered back, shielding their faces from the sudden gust, but his gaze was fixed on the opening as if he had expected it all along.“This is it,” he said, voice calm, steady, dangerous. “The Crimson Vault.”Amaka swallowed hard, her voice barely above a whisper. “It feels alive… like it’s watching us.”The air thrummed with unseen power. Even the stone beneath them seemed to pulse like a heartbeat. The blood sacrifice had not only awakened the Vault it had stirred something far older.Tunde’s face was pale. “Chike, if we go down there… what if it’s not treasure? What if it’s a curse?”Chike finally turned, his eyes glinting with resolve. “Every curse c
Chapter 144 – The Crimson Oath
The system’s emergency warning pulsed inside Chike’s mind like a siren, sharp and relentless.[ALERT: Unauthorized interference detected in the Crimson Vault. Security Protocol Ω-13 has been breached. Estimated time to full compromise: 03:42 minutes.]His vision blurred for a second, not from weakness but from the sheer weight of what that meant. The Vault wasn’t just a repository of the Red Ledger’s darkest secrets it was the nerve center of everything the syndicate had hidden for decades. Bank accounts, assassination records, blackmail files, the coordinates of hidden caches around the world all locked away in a place even the highest-ranking members feared to tread.Now it was being hacked.“Three minutes and forty two seconds,” Chike muttered under his breath, the words heavy like lead. He was still in the underground command chamber with Zainab, Captain Okoro, and the handful of loyal allies who had survived the chaos of the last ambush.“Boss, what’s happening?” Zainab asked, vo
Chapter 143 – The Breaking of Chains
The night had never felt heavier.The city was tense, shrouded under a blanket of silence broken only by the distant hum of engines and the occasional cry of a hawker still daring to stay out past curfew. Chike stood at the window of the rented penthouse, staring out into the city lights below. But his gaze wasn’t on the glittering skyline it was on the shadows that seemed to stretch too long, as though the city itself was trying to warn him of what lay ahead.The Crimson Vault.It was no longer just a whispered myth among the Red Ledger. It was real. It was opening. And his enemies were converging.“Boss,” Taye’s voice cut through his thoughts, low but urgent. He didn’t even bother knocking. The young man looked pale, his shirt stained with dust and his chest heaving. “It’s happening. We’ve just received confirmation three convoys, heavily armed, moving toward the Dockside Sector. That can only mean one thing.”Chike turned, his expression unreadable, though a flicker of grim satisfa
Chapter 142: The Crimson Reckoning
The night hung heavy over Lagos, the sky a bruised purple tapestry torn open by occasional flashes of lightning. Rain threatened, but it held back, suspended like a sword waiting for the signal to strike.Chike stood on the rooftop of the Red Ledger headquarters, the towering glass structure gleaming in the darkness. Below him, the city sprawled out in chaos sirens wailed, traffic snarled, and the hum of generators filled the void left by power cuts. But none of that mattered now. What mattered was the war that had finally erupted.For weeks, his enemies had been tightening their noose, thinking he was cornered. They had underestimated him, underestimated the system burning like fire in his veins. He had given them time, space, and rope. And now? He would use that rope to strangle every last one of them.The system interface flickered before his eyes, glowing crimson.[Crimson Vault Protocol: Initiated.][Enemy activity detected: 1.2 kilometers northeast. Leader-class target present.]
Chapter 141 – Whispers of Betrayal
The night was heavy with silence, the kind that carried weight, pressing against the walls of Chike’s safe house like a phantom suffocating the air. Outside, the city of Lagos burned with restless life cars honking, generators humming, shadows moving beneath streetlights but inside the dimly lit study, a storm brewed that had nothing to do with the chaos beyond.Chike sat at the wide mahogany desk, fingers tapping against the wood, his gaze fixed on the glowing interface projected before him. The System of the Forgotten Heir pulsed faintly, whispering calculations, red flagged reports, and fragmented data from his network. Numbers rolled across the screen like soldiers marching to war. Yet, for all the data the system fed him, his mind kept circling back to the same gnawing truth: someone had betrayed him.He leaned back in the chair, the leather groaning under his weight. Betrayal was not new to him his wife’s family had cast him aside, his enemies had schemed to bury him, and The Re
Chapter 140 – The Unmasking of Shadows
The city felt restless. Even in the dead of night, when the world was meant to sleep, Lagos vibrated with an undercurrent of tension. Neon lights reflected on the wet asphalt, car horns blared distantly, and the air was thick with the promise of chaos. Chike stood at the edge of the abandoned industrial yard, his hands balled into fists, his eyes scanning the shadows where enemies could hide. He had been betrayed enough times to know that silence was never safe.Beside him, Ifeoma adjusted her leather jacket and let her gaze sweep across the compound. Her sharp eyes glimmered with suspicion. “They’ll come tonight,” she whispered. “I can feel it.”Chike didn’t answer immediately. His system interface flickered before his eyes — translucent golden scripts feeding him streams of data:[Threat Level: Rising][Surveillance Activated][Incoming Hostiles: 12]Twelve. And that was just the first wave. The Red Ledger never came small. They wanted him broken, piece by piece, until his name was
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