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Chapter 131 – Storm at the Negotiation Table
The hotel conference room smelled of expensive wood polish, power, and hidden betrayals. A chandelier hung above, throwing its golden light across the glossy table where Chike sat with his back straight, hands clasped loosely in front of him. He looked calm, but beneath that calm was a fire no one in the room could ignore.Across from him sat three executives from The Red Ledger’s financial wing. They were polished men in dark suits, but their eyes carried shadows that revealed how many backroom deals they’d buried beneath gold and blood.“You called this meeting,” one of them said with a clipped tone. “But you have yet to explain why.”Chike leaned forward slightly, letting the silence stretch just long enough to unnerve them. “Because,” he said at last, voice low and cutting, “you’ve been bleeding this city dry under the guise of financial stability. And I’m here to cut off the vein.”The executives shifted uncomfortably. Their body language screamed denial, but their eyes gave them
Chapter 130 – The Council of Shadows
The night had fallen thick and heavy over Lagos, but the city never truly slept. Neon lights reflected against glass towers, the buzz of traffic merged with the faint hum of nightlife, and somewhere within the labyrinth of streets, Chike moved like a phantom one step ahead, yet always aware that shadows moved with him.The Council of Shadows.It was the name whispered in cryptic messages, burned into coded files, and laced through the whispers of terrified enemies. For weeks, Chike had pursued scraps of their existence, a secret collective of power-brokers who pulled strings across corporations, governments, and underworld syndicates. Now, after the brutal initiation within the Crimson Vault and the blood soaked aftermath of Ozo’s betrayal, Chike had finally received his summons.He wasn’t invited as a guest. He was being tested.Inside the penthouse of an unfinished skyscraper, Chike’s boots crunched against the gravel-strewn floor. A ring of screens glowed in the dimness, each displ
Chapter 129 – The Weight of Silent Wars
Chike sat in the dim light of his private suite, the city beyond the glass stretching into infinity like a battlefield mapped in neon veins. Lagos never slept, but tonight, its pulse felt too fast, too erratic. His system screen hovered in front of him, glowing faintly in the dark like an omen, yet his eyes weren’t on the statistics or rewards. They were on the reflection staring back at him the man he was becoming.He had faced betrayal before. He had faced enemies who wanted him erased, buried, forgotten. But what gnawed at his chest tonight wasn’t just the external threat of The Red Ledger, it was the hollow space left behind by the people who should have stood by him and didn’t.A notification chimed.[Incoming Transmission: Unverified Channel]Chike leaned forward, his muscles coiled tight. The moment he accepted, a voice filtered through distorted, cloaked in static.“You’ve drawn too much attention, Forgotten Heir. The Crimson Vault doesn’t forgive disruptions.”The Red Ledger.
Chapter 128 – Blood on the Vault’s Floor
The chamber erupted into chaos. The sharp stench of gunpowder mingled with the copper tang of blood, filling Chike’s lungs with every breath. Bullets pinged off reinforced steel, sparks raining down in brief bursts of light that carved shadows across the faces of his enemies.Okon ducked behind a half toppled shelf, firing blind over the edge. “Boss, they’re not regular enforcers these guys are something else!”“I know,” Chike growled, rolling across the slick floor to avoid the crimson glowing blade that hissed down where his head had just been. The masked operative wielding it moved with supernatural precision like each strike wasn’t just aimed at him but at his very heartbeat.The other two masked figures fanned out, one raising a metallic gauntlet that pulsed with strange light, the other gripping what looked like a staff tipped with a shard of crystal. Their weapons hummed in resonance with the Vault’s power core, feeding off it.Ifeoma leapt into action before Chike could bark a
Chapter 127 – Whispers Beneath the Crimson Vault
The air in the underground chamber was thick with the weight of secrecy. The Crimson Vault’s massive steel door had just shut behind Chike, sealing him and his small, handpicked team inside. The walls were lined with shelves of aged, leather-bound ledgers, strange artifacts locked in glass cases, and maps riddled with cryptic markings. A low hum vibrated through the stone floor, the unmistakable throb of the vault’s internal power core a reminder that this place was as much a machine as it was a tomb of history.Okon hovered near one of the shelves, eyes wide. “Boss, these aren’t just records… these are war manuals. Strategies, alliances, code names.” His fingers trembled over a file labeled Red Ledger Protocol Omega.“Don’t touch it,” Chike said, his voice sharp but low. “We don’t yet know which of these are traps and which are truths.”From the far corner, Ifeoma’s soft voice cut through the stillness. “Someone’s been here before us. Recently.” She crouched, running her fingers alo
Chapter 126 – The Smoke Before the Fire
The night air in Lagos was heavy not with the usual humid weight, but with something else. Something invisible that seemed to coil around the city’s streets and rooftops like a predator waiting to strike. From the rooftop balcony of the safehouse, Chike could see the city’s neon pulse far below, its bright lights unable to disguise the darkness underneath.It had been three days since he and his team had pulled the latest batch of decrypted files from the Red Ledger’s hidden servers. Three days of piecing together fragments of corruption so deeply embedded in the country’s power structure that it almost seemed impossible to untangle. Almost.Inside, the conference room was lit only by the glow of the wall-sized monitor. Adaora stood close to it, scrolling through a map of bank transfers, shell corporations, and coded communications. Her face was tense, her eyes scanning faster than her hand could point.“This name,” she said, tapping a section of the display. “Dr. Omenka. He’s not jus
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