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CHAPTER 195 :  The Price of Protection
Author: Sally Diandra
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A violent tremor ripped through the foundations of the bunker buried five hundred meters beneath Fifth Avenue.

Inside the Archon Global Command Center, a subterranean architectural masterpiece worth trillions of dollars, reinforced with tungsten steel, black obsidian, and radiation-resistant glass, the atmosphere of luxury had been replaced by the sharp smell of ozone, blood, and burning cables.

Blood-red emergency lights flashed wildly, sweeping across the pale faces of the senior operators. O
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