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Chapter 145: Gate of Echo Prime

Author: Wonderful65

2025-07-03 19:18:02

“Some doors aren’t meant to stay closed. Especially when what lies behind them was never dead, only forgotten.”

The Inverted Tower groaned with unnatural vibrations. Echo stood at the lip of the abyss where the final stairwell ended. The ground below shimmered with unfamiliar runes that twisted and bent light.

Mira joined her, bruised but resolute. “This is where it all started,” Mira whispered. “Spiral’s first experiment in god-tech.”

Echo’s fingers brushed the air. The hum of the structure responded like a heartbeat, hers. Juno and a squad of remaining operatives gathered behind them. “We breach in thirty,” Juno said.

Echo shook her head. “No. We descend together now.” The crystal core of the Gate of Echo Prime stood like an ancient cathedral forged from memory itself.

Floating shards engraved with spinning data runes formed impossible geometries. Light bent inward, not outward. The gate’s central monolith pulsed. As Echo approached, the system voice trembled: “Echo pattern confirme

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