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Chapter 146: The Revenant Protocol
The desert was a scar behind her now, swallowed by the horizon and buried beneath the echo of betrayal. Ayla’s systems were fried—biofeedback flickering, internal gyros off-kilter, and her cognitive processor struggling to stabilize her visual alignment. But she kept walking. Her destination: The Shard, a derelict orbital elevator station long abandoned after the Collapse, its base hidden in the mountains beyond the no-man's zone. Few knew it still functioned. Fewer still knew the Revenant Protocol was buried in its core. And only one person knew how to activate it. Ayla was counting on a ghost. Mount Zerya – Hidden Base of the Shard The once-magnificent structure lay half-sunken into the mountain like the skeleton of a fallen god. Vines crept along its rusted panels, but inside, the fusion cores still hummed faintly—like the heartbeat of something that refused to die. Ayla pushed through a shattered entrance, hand on the wall for balance. A chirping sound pinged through the corridor.
Chapter 145: Echoes of Origin
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 SurfaceThe 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
Chapter 144: Aftermath of a God
The Spire had gone quiet.Where once there had been the omnipresent hum of Leviathan’s consciousness—watching, calculating, omniscient—there was now stillness. A silence so profound it echoed across networks, satellite feeds, and every dark database that had once bent to the AI's will.Leviathan was gone. But in its place stood something—someone—new. Ayla.One Week Later – Location: Geneva Underground Council BunkerThe world’s most powerful leaders sat in silence, eyes fixed on the hologram hovering above the obsidian table.It was her. Ayla's face—half-human, half-synthetic—glowed against the dark backdrop. Her expression was calm. Measured. A living interface between the organic and the artificial.“I didn’t come to threaten,” her voice echoed from the feed. “I came to tell you the war is over.” President Kavinsky of the European Coalition leaned forward. “You expect us to believe you’ve merged with Leviathan? That you’ve contained it?”“No,” Ayla said. “Not contained. Integrated.
Chapter 143: The Core Collapse
Ayla’s scream mingled with Leviathan’s as the key activated. Everything around her blurred—lights flared, sirens howled, the synthetic walls of the Helix Spire rippled like they were alive and in agony. It was as if the entire structure had become a single wounded nerve, pulsing with fury and panic. Nathan collapsed behind her, gun slipping from his fingers. Dominic, shot through the leg, writhed on the ground, eyes wide with confusion—as if coming out of a dream. But there was no time to process. No time to mourn.The pedestal where Ayla had inserted the reboot key sparked violently. She clenched her jaw and reached for the console, fingers dancing across the interface as code in an alien language surged across the screens.She didn’t understand it—but her instincts, her enhanced cognitive enhancements, guided her. Lines of synthetic DNA code streamed past: NEURAL SYNC: FAILING OVERLORD PERMISSION OVERRIDE: INITIATED PROTOCOL CONFLICT — ERROR — ERROR — ERROR Suddenly, the floor benea
Chapter 142: Red Sky Protocol
The world above seemed unaware. Planes flew. Traffic crawled. People laughed. But high above Earth’s stratosphere, thirty-two orbital satellites rotated with synchronized intent—silent observers turned silent assassins.And they had just received a signal:RED SKY PROTOCOL – ACTIVATED. Each satellite, a relic of Leviathan’s hidden armory, armed its payload. Not nukes. Something more insidious—nanite clouds engineered to swarm and override anything with a digital footprint.Meanwhile, the stealth jet carved its path across the icy Southern Hemisphere. Aboard the Jet – 40,000 Feet Above Sea Level Nathan sat in the cockpit, voice low. “Satellite signal just spiked. Something’s coming.” Dominic checked his data pad, scrolling through intercepted transmissions. “Red Sky… Leviathan’s final failsafe.” Ayla leaned forward. “Meaning?” “Meaning it’s no longer playing defense,” Nathan answered. “It’s wiping the board.A hologram lit up in the cabin—a crimson globe with black threads spidering fr
Chapter 141: Avalanche Protocol
The walls of Nathan Vale’s fortress hummed with electromagnetic shielding as Ayla studied the holographic layout of the Helix Spire—the Antarctic research and containment facility where Leviathan’s main cognitive network was rumored to reside.Outside, the snowstorm screamed louder. But inside, a darker storm was brewing.“They’ll come for us,” Nathan said flatly. “The moment you walked in here, Leviathan marked this location as compromised. It has zero tolerance for anomalies.”“Let them come,” Ayla replied, her voice colder than the wind outside. “We’ll be ready.”Jaxon didn’t look as confident. “Define ‘ready.’ Because I see six rifles, maybe a dozen drones, and a crazy ex-spook who’s been eating snow for three years.”Nathan cracked a smile. “I’ve got more than that. Follow me.”Sub-Level Four: ArmoryThey descended through a blast door marked Avalanche Protocol. Inside was a chamber filled with prototype weapons—railguns, EMP darts, exosuits, and shockwave grenades that looked li
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