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Chapter 103 As the building collapsed around us my gaze was fixed on the kids and some of the adults that were taken. There was little time for introducing ourselves. I noticed some of them kept looking at me while some were even scared of me. “ I am not going to harm any of you. Where are you from?” I asked one of the students staring at me. “ Chicago.” She said weakly and burst into tears. “ My mother must be worried by now.” She said sobbing I looked at them and I felt moved. “ Don't worry, guys. We are all going home.”The word was comforting but now I had to back it with some action. My powers were beginning to give some side effects. I winced in pain each time as I tried to find the meeting point on the map. A low rumble vibrated through the floor, and the ceiling above groaned as debris rained down like judgment. I shielded the nearest kids with my body, raising an arm instinctively—the kinetic field flared out again, forming a dome that deflected the falling metal. Pain l
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Chapter 102The static deepened—warping, unraveling into shapes and pulses of light until a face appeared in the projection.Not a person.A symbol. The sigil of the Varia Project. Twisting, burning like embers forged from code.Then a voice, smooth and synthetic, filled the room.“Sequence initialized. Subject: Adrian. Restriction protocol: lifted.”The disc pulsed once—then again—before surfing a wave of heat that slammed into my chest like a defibrillator. I screamed, not from pain, but from the surge. It wasn’t electricity—it was power. Like my cells had been dormant, waiting for permission to awaken. Now the shackles were off.The headache vanished.The burning in my eyes? Gone.In its place was clarity.My fingertips trembled—then glowed, veins lighting up like neon pathways. My heartbeat sounded like thunder, my breath came in bursts, and I could hear—not just the walls humming, but conversations three chambers over. Heartbeats. The shifting of guards’ boots. Someone is crying
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Chapter 101I kept holding. The thought of what I was slowly becoming scared the hell out of me. I knew something was wrong with me. With my system. Miralda was pushing me to my limit. Breaking me bit by bit. Saul’s words kept echoing in my ears. The loud gunshot that robbed Park of his life and the devilish smile on Nathan's face was all I could think about. The pain meant little to me. All I focused on was two things. Rescuing the little friends I had made in the dungeon I was being thrown after each experiment. I began to think Donovan had forgotten me. We had a deal and he was going to pull me out when everything was going awol.I was beginning to think I had been forgotten and left there to rot in Milrada's dungeon. I could feel my body changing. The constant headache and the sore eyes. Everything was getting to me. I began to lose hope of getting out alive. But maybe that was the point. Maybe Miralda knew exactly what she was doing—removing every layer of identity I had,
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Chapter 100The walls of the cell were too clean. Too smooth. No screws, no seams, no imperfections to hide behind. Just the humming of unseen machinery, the distant buzz of voices beyond reinforced doors, and the taste of recycled air laced with disinfectant.I didn't touch the food. I couldn’t—not because of pride or strategy, but because my stomach had turned into a pit of molten iron. The injection hadn’t worn off. Not fully. My skin still itches like it didn’t belong to me, and my vision kept warping—edges too sharp, shadows too alive. The world hadn’t gone back to normal. It had just become... clearer.Saul’s voice kept echoing in my mind.I don’t need your trust. I need your rage.Well, he had it. All of it.I thought of Zee again. Her laughter. Her blood. Nathan had made it personal. His father made it systematic. And now Miralda, with her too-perfect face and perfectly folded hands, wanted to make it clinical.No.They wanted to make me useful.A soft hiss preceded the door s
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Chapter 99The room they called “Reorientation” wasn’t a room at all — it was a chamber buried beneath the command deck, lit by nothing but rotating panels of red and blue light that cast shadows over the wall of the building. The air was sterile, the kind that scraped the inside of your nose and made you feel like you were breathing in chemicals.They stripped me fast. Rough hands tearing off the damp clothes, yanking out the chip they knew was fake. My mask is gone. My boots are gone. I stood naked under the floodlights, my body trembling from the residual effects of the inhibitor, the cold, and the weight of what I was doing. But I didn’t flinch. I didn’t speak.They bound me to a vertical gurney with magnetic cuffs, wrists above my head, and ankles locked in place. A humming sound filled the room as the scanners came to life — a net of blue lasers crawling over my skin, measuring heat signatures, detecting anomalies in bone density, bloodstream composition, and even neural activ
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Chapter 98The morning came really fast. The breeze blew hard against my skin — harsh, cold, and without mercy. I didn’t sleep. Not even a blink. My body had settled into a mode I hadn’t known I could reach. It wasn’t adrenaline, not anymore. It was something deeper. Something primal. My mind had already begun constructing the person I needed to become.The clothes they gave me were different this time. Gone was the student uniform, the casual hoodie and jeans I’d worn to blend in. Instead, I now wore matte-black tactical fabric, light armor molded to my body, the kind Gregory’s inner circle wore. Juno handed it to me without a word, her eyes scanning mine for any hesitation.There wasn’t any.“Donovan wants to see you before you leave,” she said as I zipped the suit halfway up.“I’m not in the mood for a lecture.”It had been a while since I had seen Saul. He calls sometimes and I began to wonder what he was up to. “It’s not that kind of meeting.”Of course, it isn’t, I thought. No
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