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Ashes Never Lie
Chapter 416: Ashes Never LieThey buried the truth beneath missions, orders, and polished brass. But ashes never lie. They whisper. And now, they scream.The wind howled through the shattered ribs of Outpost Kilo-Twelve, once a proud Spiral operations hub, now a grave of memories scorched black by betrayal. The cold bit harder than usual tonight—not from weather, but from what Jax Mercer had just uncovered beneath the crumbled intel vault.A metal box.Unmarked. Coded with ancient Blood Debt encryption—red spirals that hadn't spun in decades.Inside, files. Handwritten. Not synthetic.The last testimony of Commander Solen Kray.Jax squinted, scanning the pages under the flickering lenslight.“If you’re reading this, then the debt has come due. We made deals beneath Eden’s crust. We made monsters from memory. I tried to stop them. I failed. And now, they're crawling out.”Jax lowered the page slowly. Behind him, footsteps crunched over fractured stone.Rael.“You found something,” she
A Silence Before the Burn
Chapter 415: A Silence Before the BurnIn war, there’s always a moment—right before the blood spills again—when silence tastes like ash, and the breath of old ghosts tightens your grip.I. THE EYE OF THE MAELSTROMRain lashed against the shattered glass of the Citadel's south wing. From his vantage point high above Sector Twelve, Jace Draven watched the Spiral Core flicker in the distance, a dying heartbeat beneath the storm. His gloved hand pressed against the window, the warmth of his blood-soaked skin fogging the fractured glass.“It’s too quiet,” he muttered.Behind him, Elira Voss clicked the safety off her pulseblade. She wore her trauma suit like a second skin—burned, patched, soaked in grit. Her voice cut the silence.“That’s not quiet. That’s breathing.”Jace turned. The comm-line in his ear buzzed, followed by a cracked voice:“Whisperborne are repositioning. Two squads breached the east quadrant. We lost contact with Sev.”He didn’t flinch, but something cold settled behi
Dust Between Orders
Chapter 414: Dust Between OrdersThe silence after the blast was worse than the sound itself.Smoke rose in a slow, choking coil from the edge of the fractured compound. Jaxon rolled onto his back, pain spiking down his side, vision blurring just long enough for the adrenaline to drown it out. Dust clung to the inside of his throat like guilt.“Jax, come in!”Sera’s voice cut through the comm—cracked, desperate.He forced a breath. Pressed two fingers to his comm.“Alive… barely. What the hell was that?”“Detonator override. Someone’s feeding old codes into the grid. Not ours.”Jaxon cursed under his breath and sat up, dragging himself behind what remained of a fractured steel barrier. He looked around.Bodies—both enemy and friendly—lay scattered across the debris field. Among them, the flicker of red Spiral sparks dancing unnaturally close to the soil.That wasn’t normal.The Spiral tech was humming again, syncing with something unseen.And that meant only one thing.The Whisperborn
The Hollow Signal
Chapter 413: The Hollow SignalThe bunker lights flickered.Jax's boots struck the concrete floor as he stalked down the narrow hallway of Sector 9’s forgotten underground lab—his pulse syncing with every step. Sweat clung to his skin beneath his tactical vest, and the silent tension in his team behind him was thick enough to cut with a blade."How deep does this place go?" asked Cruz, voice hushed, rifle raised."Too deep," Jax muttered. "It was sealed during the Eden Collapse. Anything past Level Six was scrubbed from official records.""Then why are we here?" murmured Shade, fingers twitching near her holster."Because a Spiral signal came from here," Jax said. "One that shouldn't exist."The signal. It had arrived two nights ago—buried under layers of encrypted ghost code. A pulse not meant for broadcast, but for resurrection.A whisper."Jaxon Mirea… come home."The voice had been his mother's. But she died over a decade ago in the Siege of Karron Spire. No Spiral Song could repl
Burn Protocol Engaged
Chapter 412: Burn Protocol EngagedSome legacies end with fire. Others begin with it.I. Inside the Vault of ProtocolsThe underground chamber pulsed with red warning lights, the kind that signaled a point of no return.Agent Raze stood at the central console, blood trailing from a gash along his ribs. His breath came hard and fast as he entered the final command string.BURN PROTOCOL: INITIATED.“This is it,” he muttered. “No turning back.”Ash’s voice cut through the comms, still crackling from the skirmish above.“You sure about this, Raze? Once the burn starts, Eden’s core vaults are done. Every hidden protocol… gone.”Raze didn’t answer. He looked at the image flickering on the screen—his sister’s last Spiral message before her death.“Don’t let them control the truth.”He slammed his palm onto the final biometric lock.“I’m sure.”II. The Spiral’s Last DefenseUp above, Ko and Sigma held the outer corridor, Spiral Whisperborne soldiers pushing back wave after wave of rogue Synth
Specter Protocol
Chapter 411: Specter ProtocolThe night smelled like copper and static.Rain fell in fine sheets over the ruined transport hangar just south of the Arkash border. What was once a Federation refueling station was now nothing more than scorched ferrocrete and twisted steel. Still, the ruins made perfect cover.Jace Virelli crouched behind the husk of a rail-freighter chassis, pulse rifle drawn, eye on the movement tracker synced to his neural band. One green dot—him. Two red. Moving."Ghosts never sleep," he muttered.His comm crackled.“Specter-One, this is Wraith-Echo. Confirm extraction window. You’ve got two tails converging east of the wreckline.”Jace replied with a breath more than words. “Negative on extract. They’re hunting for Echo data. I can’t let that fall into their hands.”Silence on the other end.Then a low, grim voice.“Activate Specter Protocol. Burn the data. Burn everything.”He knew the voice—Director Saren herself.That meant the situation was worse than Command l
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