Author: Tianah

2025-06-01 16:58:35

Chapter 96

I didn’t ask for coffee.

I didn’t ask for breakfast.

When your knuckles are still split and your bones hum with the ache of yesterday’s pain, there’s no room for luxury — only focus.

I had been training hard and more than I was supposed to by the way. They keep pushing me hard. Asking me to try things that I had thought of as not going to be possible in my wildest dreams.

Donovan and Juno were already seated when I walked into the room. The table was backlit, displaying a 3D projection of Eastbrook’s underground systems — subway tunnels, maintenance shafts, and old storm drains that hadn’t seen use in years.

“Sleep well?” Donovan asked without looking up.

I knew it was a way of him trying to laugh or mock me. But still, they were my mentors and the only ones who could help me take down my target.

I stared at the flickering lines on the projection. “Like a corpse.”

Juno cracked a smile. Barely. “Fitting.”

Donovan gestured for me to sit. “This is what you’re walking into,” he

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Chapter 172 It was like he had disappeared off the grid. I went back to his crumbled house, and he was not there. I tried listening for hours to hear her voice, but I heard nothing. It was like they both were off the face of the earth. One week became two weeks, and three became four. I finally forgot about Juliet, and I focused on rebuilding. I had been flying out in the night to save those who needed it.It felt good using my powers to help those who were in need.I was able to stop a robbery and even save a man dying right in front of me. Posters about the mysterious healer were beginning to circulate around the city, but I didn't care. I was trying to make the world a better place, and I was also taking down any drug baron in the city. I don't mind what it does, but I need to make the city clean from drug dealers, thieves, and thugs. I needed to create a safe atmosphere for the kids, and maybe Park and his sister might return one day. Peace. It was something I had always t
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Chapter 171I looked around as I landed. The smoke choked the sky, black and heavy, turning daylight into dusk. My feet hit the ground hard as I bolted toward what remained of the house I once called home. The wooden beams groaned under the weight of the destruction. Windows shattered, furniture reduced to ashes, and fire licked the remnants like it was still hungry for more.“Mother!” I screamed again, bursting through the front door—or what was left of it. Everywhere was in flames. The couch, the photograph of my friend Mother Alisha had asked us to take before Park left. Everything has been torched. The heat bit at my skin, but it didn’t burn me. Nothing seemed to. I pushed through the flames like they were curtains, my eyes searching desperately for any sign of her.“Mother Alisha!” I called louder, my voice cracking with a mix of panic and rage.I heard a faint cough, low and hoarse. My heart jumped.“Mother?” I followed the sound, leaping over a fallen beam and pushing asi
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Chapter 170Have you ever felt so good that you can't sleep?I noticed the way Ren, Marcus, and even Suri looked at me. I don't know if they were scared of me or if they were seeing me as a god. The moment Marcus woke up. Suri and Ren couldn't stop looking at me and wondering what I was. I knew I wasn't human anymore. I was something more. I mean, who has the power to heal and fly? I wonder what else I could do aside from just healing, flying, and releasing a blast of energy waves from my hands. “ What are you?” Suri asked with a shaky voice.“Really? I don’t know myself,” I replied with a smile on my face.But it wasn’t entirely true.Something inside me was shifting—had been for a while now. The moment I flew for the first time. The moment the blast tore through the rogue agents back at the lab. The moment my blood brought Marcus back from the dead.This wasn’t normal. It wasn’t even superhuman anymore.It was something else entirely.Suri didn’t smile back. Her eyes stayed fixed
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Chapter 169Have you ever felt like the fate of a person is in your hands? You feel like you could have saved them. I looked at Marcus's lifeless body in my arms as I walked out of the hospital. All eyes were on me, and some of them even brought out their phones to take pictures. Not that it matters anyway. I was more concerned about him. If I could heal, then I should be able to heal him. My blood should do some miracle. I looked into the sky and flew immediately. I could hear their gasp. The stunned silence that followed was broken only by the faint sound of phones dropping and nurses screaming my name.But I didn’t stop.Marcus was getting colder in my arms, and I was running out of time.The wind screamed around me as I soared higher and higher, piercing through the clouds, until the city looked like a cluster of blinking lights below. I didn’t know where I was going—I just let instinct take over.“Come on,” I muttered through clenched teeth, eyes burning from the wind and tear
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Chapter 168My gaze was fixed on the theater room Marcus had been wheeled into. I couldn't help but wonder what was taking so long. The nurses kept walking in and out of the room. I rushed toward them each time one of them walked out, but when I asked how Marcus was faring, all they told me was to wait. “We are trying our best, Mr. Adrian. You might need to wait for the final result.” One of them said, I was feeling tired, and I could barely even think. My mind went back to work, Edwin, and I felt happy to have seen the end of him. With Edwin gone, the school would be at peace, and the students would be able to live a normal life. That was my thought. I remembered Ren’s words again. “Did you see him do it?” I arched my eyebrows again. I only saw him fall into the hole when the walls around him were crumbling. Could he have had powers, too?If Nathan was having it, then I believe he could too. The door opened, and I saw the doctor walking out with two nurses flanking his side.
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Chapter 167The light around us flickered—fading from brilliant white to a dying ember—as Edwin’s domain collapsed in on itself. The walls cracked and groaned like the very fabric of the dimension was unraveling. Chunks of obsidian stone rained from the ceiling, veins of silver light rupturing like broken circuits in a dying machine.I tightened my grip on Marcus. He was barely conscious, his breaths shallow and uneven, his body limp against mine.“Hold on,” I muttered, more to myself than to him. I needed space to do my thing. Fly. But the debris was falling so hard that I couldn't pick myself up, coupled with the fact that Marcus was heavy. I closed my eyes and focused again. The melody. The rhythm. The pulse that was mine and mine alone.There it was—buried beneath the chaos, like a faint heartbeat amidst a storm. I grabbed onto it and pushed. The light around us surged again, forming a shield just as a massive slab of the ceiling came crashing down.The impact never reached us

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