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Chapter 108: The Split Second
The world went white, Heat roared past Jace’s face like the breath of a collapsing sun. The sound wasn’t just loud, it was inside his bones, rattling him apart.For one impossible moment, he thought this was it, that his story ended here, under a torrent of fire and shrapnel. But the blast never hit.Something slammed into him from the side, a blur of motion and force. He and the briefcase were yanked violently behind a fractured vault column. The heat seared the metal inches away, warping it into glowing, dripping shapes.When his hearing snapped back in ragged pieces, he heard the suited man’s voice, low and urgent. “You’re welcome. Now move.”Jace blinked, disoriented. “Why, why save me?”“Because,” the man said, shoving him toward a still-intact service hatch, “I can’t open that case without you.”The briefcase. Jace’s grip tightened instinctively. “You mean you don’t have the code?”The man’s jaw flexed. “I had it. Then you changed it.”Before Jace could reply, the armored creatu
Chapter 107: Siege of the Vault
The first blast ripped through the air like a hurricane wrapped in fire. Steel beams twisted, molten rivulets streaming down the walls as the shockwave punched the breath from Jace’s lungs.He hit the ground hard, instinctively rolling behind a toppled server rack just as another shot vaporized the spot where he’d been seconds before.The armored behemoth clambered fully out of the core breach now, its legs drove like piledrivers into the collapsing vault floor, each step accompanied by a hiss of steam and a pulse of blue light deep in its joints. It was taller than the exo-suit, twice as heavily plated, and its front bristled with six rotating barrels already spinning to life.The other Jace didn’t run. He was grinning. “Finally,” he muttered, low enough for only Jace to catch.Then he moved, straight at the thing, The suited man swore and sprinted toward the far side of the vault, dodging debris and leaping over fractures like the collapsing steel was a well-mapped dance floor. “Jac
Chapter 106: Vault Collapse
The vault floor fractured like thin ice under a heavy boot. Sections of reinforced steel tilted and slid into the dark, yawning pit below. Molten cables spat sparks, lighting the fog in violent flashes.Jace barely managed to leap onto a still-solid platform, his breath ragged. His hand clamped tighter on the briefcase, it felt heavier now, not from weight but from the screaming awareness that every faction in this room wanted it.The other Jace moved like a predator, fluid and precise, leaping over collapsing panels with impossible balance. Each step he took seemed intentional, like he could read the vault’s death throes before they happened.The exo-suit, still limping from the earlier blow, tried to stabilize itself. Its clawed legs punctured through steel panels, anchoring it in place. “TARGET LOCKED,” it rasped through broken speakers, but before it could act, the other Jace ripped up one of the steel plates and hurled it like a discus. The slab smashed into the exo-suit’s torso,
Chapter 105: The Other Jace
The exo-suit hit the steel floor with the weight of a meteor, sending shockwaves through the room. The ceiling’s breach still rained debris as its cannon arm tracked between Jace, the suited man, and the glass cylinder.“IDENTIFY SUBJECT,” the machine’s voice boomed, a synthetic growl layered over a woman’s tone Jace swore he recognized.The suited man didn’t flinch. “You’re wasting your time,” he said to the machine, then flicked his gaze at Jace. “Step back.”Jace didn’t. His pistol was trained on both threats now, on the suit’s central optic and on the man’s smug, infuriatingly calm face.The cylinder hissed. A cascade of bubbles erupted in the shimmering fluid, and the other Jace inside opened his eyes fully. The pupils gleamed with a metallic glint. He pressed a palm against the glass from the inside, and a spiderweb of cracks bloomed outward.“Contain him!” the machine barked, yes, barked, like it knew exactly what would happen if the cylinder broke. The suited man smirked. “Too
Title: Chapter 104: Into the Pit
The instant the floor collapsed, Jace’s stomach lurched into his throat.Dust and splintered concrete swallowed him, the roar of crumbling steel drowning out every thought. Gravity yanked him down through darkness, the only light the faint, unnatural glow leaking from the bullet hole in the briefcase.Something heavy slammed into his shoulder mid-fall. A chunk of rebar, jagged and rusted, scraped across his arm, tearing fabric and skin. He gritted his teeth, twisting in the air, trying to avoid the rain of debris chasing him into the abyss. Then, impact.He hit hard, the air punched from his lungs. The briefcase clanged against the floor beside him. Pain rippled up his spine, but his survival instincts snapped him upright before he could even groan. The room around him wasn’t what he expected.It wasn’t rubble-filled or buried under tons of collapsed building. It was… intact. The walls were reinforced steel, the floor smooth, and the air unnaturally still, as though sealed from the ch
Chapter 103: The Fall
The world narrowed to wind and darkness, Jace’s body twisted in freefall, the blazing rooftop shrinking above him, flames licking at the night sky. The weight of the steel briefcase on his harness yanked at his shoulder, threatening to spin him midair.Below, the streets were a chaotic tapestry of sirens, honking cars, and the distant screams of panicked civilians. Somewhere down there, the ground was rushing up to greet him, and if he hit it, there’d be nothing left to scrape off the pavement.Instinct overrode fear. He yanked at the quick-release buckles on his rappelling harness, freeing the slack line he’d used to swing into the penthouse.The coil whipped upward, caught on a window frame three floors down, and jerked him sideways with bone-jarring force. His shoulder screamed in protest.Glass exploded around him as he crashed through a lower-level window.He landed hard on an office desk, scattering papers and a still-steaming coffee cup. The scalding liquid splashed across his
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