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CHAPTER 365. ECHOES IN THE ACADEMY
Morning light stretched weakly across the academy courtyard, but it did nothing to warm the place. The academy felt changed, like someone had drained all the color out of its walls. Students walked in small groups, whispering behind tight hands, glancing around as if danger hid behind every door. Even the wind that usually carried soft laughter now carried fear.Oliver Beckett walked through the courtyard slowly, his steps heavy. Every muscle in his body still ached from the injuries Hayes had left him with. The System had healed much of it, but the strange pain in his chest lingered like a bruise on his soul. The notifications that flickered in the corner of his vision did not help. They came at random, glitching like broken text, unreadable symbols flashing before fading away.He rubbed his temples and breathed out. “The academy feels wrong,” he whispered to himself.Iris walked beside him, watching him with quiet worry. “You are not sleeping enough,” she said gently. “You wake u
CHAPTER 364. THE FIRST CONFRONTATION
The night sky over the city looked wrong. The stars flickered like dying lamps, bending and twisting in slow circles around some invisible center. Oliver Beckett stood on a narrow rooftop, breathing hard, feeling the sharp cold bite into his lungs. His System interface was glowing in front of his eyes, pulsing with a single trail of distorted data.Hayes’s energy signature.It moved like a steady heartbeat, calm and sure, drifting far beyond the academy, past the city lights, toward the old observatory on the outskirts. The same observatory that had been closed for years. The same place where Rift readings had been reported long before the academy even discovered Zones.Oliver wiped sweat from his forehead and whispered, “Hayes, what are you doing out there?”Iris stepped beside him, but Oliver shook his head gently. “Stay here. Please. If something happens, I need you safe.”Iris grabbed his arm tightly, refusing to let go. “You can’t go alone. Not this time.”“I have to,” Oliver
CHAPTER 363. DOUBLE AGENTS
The night was cold and strangely quiet. The academy lights flickered in the distance like tired stars. Oliver Beckett sat inside the abandoned data-hall with Iris and Billy, the screens around them glowing faintly with lines of half-broken code. They were still trying to restore their corrupted files, still trying to understand why their evidence upload had suddenly failed.Oliver stared at one screen, his jaw tight. “Someone erased the message before it reached the Council,” he said quietly. His voice was steady, but his eyes were sharp with worry. “Someone inside our group.”Billy shifted uncomfortably. Iris leaned against the table, arms crossed, eyes narrowed. “We checked everything,” she said. “All the encryption keys. All the logs. One person had to be inside the upload room to sabotage the whole thing.”Billy looked at Oliver in panic. “It isn’t me,” he whispered. “I swear. I swear on everything. I did not do this.”Oliver didn’t answer him right away. He looked tired, older
CHAPTER 362. SEEDS OF REBELLION
The academy shifted into a new rhythm after the raid, one that no longer felt like a school. Students walked the hallways with lowered voices and frightened eyes. Security drones hovered at every corner. Every door carried biometric locks. Every conversation felt watched, as if an unseen ear listened from the shadows.But the most unsettling change was the silence surrounding Dr. Andre Hayes. No one spoke against him.No one questioned his authority. It was as if the academy had accepted him completely, or been forced to.Yet beneath that suffocating quiet, something else was growing. Something small but determined. A rebellion.Iris Beckett sat cross-legged on the floor of Oliver’s dorm room, surrounded by old notebooks, scattered wires, and small encrypted tablets. Her eyes were focused, her fingers moving with controlled speed as she scribbled numbers onto a page in looping strokes.“Okay,” she murmured, tapping the pen against her chin. “If we encrypt the logs with pre-System c
CHAPTER 361. AFTERMATH
The academy felt different when the sun rose the next morning. It did not feel like a place of learning anymore. It felt like a battlefield wrapped in the clothes of a school. The courtyard that had once been filled with laughter and training now stood broken and burned.Stones shattered, grass scorched, and the smell of Rift energy still hanging in the air like bitter smoke.For the first time since he arrived at the academy, Oliver Beckett did not wake to the sound of his alarm or the soft ping of a System notification. He woke to the heavy quiet of the infirmary, where the light was dim, the air cold, and the soft beeping of a monitor filled the silence around him like a heartbeat that wasn’t his.His eyes opened slowly, every muscle in his body aching. The ceiling above him blurred, then sharpened. The white lights reflected across his vision. His breathing felt tight, like something heavy sat on his chest. “Oliver?”The voice was soft, trembling. Iris sat beside his bed, leani
CHAPTER 360. THE RAID ON THE ACADEMY
The first alarm began as a soft chime, nothing more than a gentle ring echoing across the early morning corridors. Most students were still asleep. The sky outside was only beginning to brighten, pale light sliding through the windows like thin silver threads. For one breath, the academy felt calm, peaceful, untouched by the chaos that had followed Oliver Beckett these past months, then the second alarm hit.It roared across the campus in a violent surge, the sound so loud it made the walls tremble. Lights flickered. The ground shook. Windows buzzed as if something massive pressed against them from the outside. Students shot awake in terror, and the silence of morning broke into sharp cries and hurried footsteps.Oliver Beckett sat upright before his mind fully understood anything. His System interface burst alive in front of his eyes with bright red warnings.[RIFT ENERGY DETECTED: CLASS C DISTORTION][EXTERNAL HOSTILE SIGNATURES: 34 SOURCES IDENTIFIED][TARGET IDENTIFIED: BILLY
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