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Chapter 157
Miko stared at the official summons, the presidential seal gleaming in the morning light filtering through his dorm window. Three days had passed since their return from their little vacation, three days of careful observation and growing paranoia."This can't be a coincidence," he muttered, passing the letter to Anna.She skimmed it quickly. "A private meeting with the President? Now? When we've just started uncovering this mimic situation?""Could be a trap," Akiya said, pacing the small room. Her hair was tied back tightly, dark circles under her eyes betraying how little she'd slept. "If the mimics have infiltrated the Academy, who's to say they haven't reached higher?"Liam, sprawled across Miko's bed with a tactical map of AAU, looked up. "Or it could be legitimate. The President's always had a weird interest in you, Miko.""That's what worries me," Miko said, running a hand through his hair. "What if the real President has been replaced too? What if this is just their way of is
Chapter 156
The transport rumbled through mountain roads as they headed back toward the Academy. Inside, the four teammates sat in exhausted silence, each lost in their own thoughts about what they'd witnessed at the mountain picnic."I keep thinking about Hayes," Anna said finally, breaking the quiet. "Something about the whole thing feels wrong.""Wrong how?" Miko asked, though he'd been having similar thoughts."It happened too fast," Anna replied, shifting in her seat to face the others. "Yesterday we trusted him completely. Today he's revealed as the mastermind behind everything? It doesn't make sense."Liam nodded slowly. "The timing is suspicious. Right after we start questioning AAU’s Loyalty, suddenly the person who warned us about conspiracies turns out to be part of one?""Maybe that's exactly why he warned us," Akiya suggested, though she didn't sound convinced. "Keep us suspicious of everyone except him.""But think about what he told us before," Anna pressed. "About Academy experime
Chapter 155
The portal collapsed with a sound like thunder, taking Hayes and his corrupted coordinators with it. But not before they'd left their mark on everything Miko thought he understood about the world."Is everyone alive?" Anna called, her voice hoarse from shouting healing instructions during the chaotic battle.Around the devastated meadow, survivors slowly emerged from hiding places among the trees and rocks. Students with torn robes and haunted expressions. Faculty members who'd fought corruption beasts with training techniques never meant for real combat. All of them changed by what they'd witnessed."Forty-one students accounted for," reported one of the instructors, his usually neat appearance disheveled and singed. "Five faculty members. Plus your group and Miss Rose.""Injuries?""Fifteen students with corruption exposure. Three faculty with serious wounds. Could have been much worse."Could have been much worse.Join us or die."The carriages?" Liam asked, helping a shaken first-
Chapter 154
The main portal should have closed completely. Instead, it flickered, then suddenly flared back to life with blinding intensity. Through the dimensional tear stepped a figure that made Miko's blood run cold.Coordinator Hayes.But not the Hayes they knew. This version moved with fluid grace, corruption patterns writhing beneath his skin like living tattoos. His weathered face wore an expression of cold satisfaction as he surveyed the devastated meadow."Impossible," Miss Rose breathed, taking an involuntary step backward. "Hayes has been fighting corruption for decades.""Has he?" the corrupted coordinator asked, his voice carrying the same authority it always had but with an undertone of something inhuman. "Or has he been serving it all along?"Miko felt the world shift around him. Hayes had been the one to debrief them after the Abyss mission. The one who'd warned them about Academy conspiracies. The one who'd suggested they come to Lunaris for their own safety."You sent us here,"
Chapter 153
The Awakened Wraith's first attack split the meadow in half. Corruption energy lanced from its claws in a beam that carved through earth and stone like they were paper. Miko dove left, Miss Rose rolled right, both barely avoiding the devastating strike that left a smoking trench where they'd been standing."Spread out!" Miss Rose shouted, already moving to flank the massive creature. "Don't let it focus on one target!"Miko circled in the opposite direction, dual elements weaving complex patterns around his hands. The Awakened Wraith was larger than any he'd faced before, but size wasn't everything. In the deep Abyss, he'd learned that precision mattered more than raw power.Fire lashed out from his right hand, striking the creature's corruption patterns where they seemed weakest. Ash followed from his left, eating away at the energy that held its form together. The attacks were pinpricks against something so massive, but they got its attention."Annoying insects," the wraith rumbled,
Chapter 152
The portal tore wider with a sound like reality ripping apart. Corruption energy poured from the jagged opening, turning the peaceful meadow into something from a nightmare. Students scattered in all directions, their screams echoing off the surrounding mountains."Stay together!" Headmaster Thorne shouted over the chaos, but his voice was barely audible above the sounds of panic and the otherworldly shrieking emerging from the portal.The first wraith that emerged was smaller than the ones Miko had faced in the deep Abyss, but to the unprepared Lunaris students it might as well have been a dragon. Its corruption patterns pulsed with hungry light as it swept toward a group of first-years who'd frozen in terror."Move!" Miko shouted, fire and ash erupting around his hands as he sprinted across the meadow. He reached the wraith just as its claws swept toward the nearest student, intercepting the attack with a barrier of dual elements.The wraith hissed and recoiled, clearly not expectin
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