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Chapter 145: Echoes of Origin
Author: Wonderful65
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The desert was ancient, but what lay beneath it was far older than any kingdom etched into the history books.

Ayla hovered silently above the shifting sands, her cloaking field shimmering with the faintest pulse. Beneath her boots, the ruins of what once had been a communication relay for Leviathan stretched like skeletal remains across the desert basin—long since gutted, buried in a sandstorm that lasted six days and was never explained by natural weather patterns. She wasn’t here by chance. She’d followed Virex’s digital trail—scrambled and masked through countless proxies—but a whispered anomaly in the sub-ether layer of Leviathan’s fractured memory led her to one word: Al’Dahra. And now she stood above it.

Below the Surface

The hatch opened with a groan, reluctant—like the desert itself was trying to hold back what slept beneath.

Ayla dropped silently into the dark, her eyes adjusting instantly. The temperature dropped by thirty degrees as the walls closed in around her. Everythin
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