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Season 3-Chp 37
Author: Wednesday Adaire
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Lukas stumbled forward, his boots crunching over shattered obsidian from the broken circle.

“Keep moving!” Vex’s voice was sharp behind the respirator. He shoved Lukas ahead as a steel beam fell where they’d been standing seconds before.

The black mist still clung to Lukas’s shoulders, cold as winter and heavy as lead. “It’s not letting me go,” he muttered, clawing at it. His fingers passed through, leaving trails like ripples in water.

“That’s because you opened it,” Vex said. “It knows you now.”

A voice hissed in his ear — William’s, close enough to feel the heat of breath that didn’t exist.

“Don’t listen to him. I can cut the tether if you agree to my terms.”

Lukas didn’t slow. “Still twelve lives?”

“Still twelve,” William purred. “Unless you want the thing behind the Gate to finish what it started.”

They rounded a corner in the tunnel, the light from the Gate fading. The runes here were dead, black stone with no pulse. The silence was thick enough to muffle even their boots.

“Why
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  • Season 3-Chp 38

    Vex stood a few feet away, blade in hand, eyes scanning the cracked steel beams overhead. “We don’t have long,” he said. “The Gate’s pulse is unstable. If it collapses now, it could take the entire sector with it.”Lukas’s gaze drifted to the floor. Obsidian shards glinted like cold eyes. “William…” he muttered. “He’s… not done with me yet.”“He never is,” Vex said, voice low. “But you’ve got to decide what’s more important: him, Andrew, or the Dagger itself.”Lukas clenched his teeth. The Obsidian Dagger was heavy in his palm, buzzing faintly, demanding allegiance. His eyes swept over the chamber. Jerome was gone — escaped — but his warning still hung in Lukas’s mind. Andrew is different now… Andrew has been to the Gate.William’s voice slithered through the shadows, low and amused. “Ah, hesitation. The first taste of weakness. Tell me, Lukas — what will you sacrifice? Another dozen lives? Or your own sanity?”Lukas didn’t answer. His mind replayed the misty glimpses of Andrew: seren

  • Season 3-Chp 37

    Lukas stumbled forward, his boots crunching over shattered obsidian from the broken circle.“Keep moving!” Vex’s voice was sharp behind the respirator. He shoved Lukas ahead as a steel beam fell where they’d been standing seconds before.The black mist still clung to Lukas’s shoulders, cold as winter and heavy as lead. “It’s not letting me go,” he muttered, clawing at it. His fingers passed through, leaving trails like ripples in water.“That’s because you opened it,” Vex said. “It knows you now.”A voice hissed in his ear — William’s, close enough to feel the heat of breath that didn’t exist.“Don’t listen to him. I can cut the tether if you agree to my terms.”Lukas didn’t slow. “Still twelve lives?”“Still twelve,” William purred. “Unless you want the thing behind the Gate to finish what it started.”They rounded a corner in the tunnel, the light from the Gate fading. The runes here were dead, black stone with no pulse. The silence was thick enough to muffle even their boots.“Why

  • Season 3-Chp 36

    Black runes crawled along the curved walls like insects, rearranging themselves every few seconds, forming words in a language that made Lukas’s skin prickle.He knelt at the heart of a ritual circle carved from crushed obsidian and salt, the Obsidian Dagger lying across his palms. The blade hummed like it remembered every life it had ended.Above him, the arch of the tunnel shimmered, warping reality into a jagged frame of shadow — the Phantom Gate.“Final check,” murmured Vex, the man standing at the edge of the circle. His face was half-covered by a respirator, but the unease in his voice was clear. “The last summoner who tried this… they didn’t just die, Lukas. They disappeared screaming into the stone. No body. No grave.”Lukas didn’t look up. “Sanity is a luxury,” he said flatly. “I’m here for power.”Vex hesitated, then stepped back, as if already preparing to disown whatever was about to happen.The runes on the wall shifted again — this time stopping in perfect alignment. The

  • Season 3-Chp 35

    The curtains were drawn, the air still. Lukas sat cross-legged on the floor, the Obsidian Dagger resting in his hands. The chain was warm, almost alive, and each pulse sent a faint vibration up his arms.He closed his eyes.Let me in.The world around him shifted. The marble floor dissolved into cracked black stone, the walls into endless pillars of shadow. Above, there was no sky — only a swirling, endless void.He was inside the Phantom Gate.A voice echoed from everywhere and nowhere at once.You came sooner than I expected.Lukas turned toward the sound. William stood at the edge of a cliff, his white shirt fluttering in a wind that didn’t exist. His eyes were the same — cold, mocking, dangerous — but here, in the Gate, they glowed faintly red.“You’ve been watching,” Lukas said.William smiled. “Always. I see you’ve been busy… sniffing out this ‘Leon.’”Lukas walked toward him, the black stone shifting under his feet like a living thing. “He’s more than Leon. He’s Andrew. Alive.”

  • Season 3-Chp 34

    The air smelled of rain and rust, and the wind carried a low, almost inhuman hum. Inside, Andrew leaned against a steel table, arms folded, watching Jerome pace.“You’re taking a risk meeting me here,” Jerome muttered. His voice was low but sharp, eyes flicking to the shadows as though they had ears.“They always have ears,” Andrew said calmly. “That’s why I chose this place. The noise from the turbines will scramble any remote surveillance.”Jerome stopped pacing. His face was paler than usual, the faint shimmer of pain in his eyes betraying the wounds he was still hiding. “You think Lukas is getting closer.”“I know he is,” Andrew replied. “He’s circling me. He doesn’t know I’m Leon yet… but he will. And when he does, he won’t hesitate.”Jerome stepped closer. “Then we hit him first.”Andrew’s gaze was steady, unblinking. “Not yet.”The far end of the warehouse rattled as the wind caught the loose metal siding. Jerome glanced over his shoulder. “You’re playing a dangerous game, Andr

  • Season 2-Chp 33

    The rain came down in sheets over the glass walls of Ravage Inc’s penthouse, blurring the skyline into a smear of gold and black. Lukas stood with his hands clasped behind his back, watching the city like a man staring at prey he hadn’t yet decided how to kill.“Sir,” came the voice of Mara, his chief intelligence officer. Her heels clicked softly against the marble as she approached, a tablet in her hand. “We’ve intercepted another communique between the investors in Dubai and the man they call ‘Leon.’”Lukas didn’t turn around. “And?”Mara hesitated, flicking the tablet awake. “There’s… a pattern. Every single deal Leon touches indirectly targets our supply chain. It’s surgical. Precise. Too precise for a man who’s only been on the scene six months.”Now Lukas did turn. His eyes were sharp, the obsidian glint in them just barely visible in the dim light. “You’re saying he’s not just a rival. He’s… something else.”Mara nodded. “I’m saying he’s not who he says he is. And… we found th

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