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The Ghost Descend
CHAPTER 26 — THE GHOST DESCENDS The revolving doors of Ashborne Tower glided open with a whisper, letting in the cold bite of the night air. Employees still lingering in the lobby straightened instinctively, the way prey reacts when a predator steps into the open. Liam Ashborne — the man the media called The Ghost — walked through the entrance with footsteps sharp enough to cut the silence. He moved as though the world rearranged itself to make way for him. Every motion precise. Every breath controlled. Every expression unreadable. But beneath his calm, something inside him buzzed. A faint static hum. A glitch. He paused. His fingers twitched once, almost imperceptibly, as if reacting to a signal no one else could hear. There were hundreds of people in the lobby. Yet for a reason he couldn’t explain… His eyes were searching for one. Someone. A silhouette his mind couldn’t conjure… but felt. A presence his body reacted to before his brain caught up.
The First Ripple
CHAPTER 25 — THE FIRST RIPPLEThe night air outside Ashborne Tower tasted metallic, humming with the static of secrets only a handful of people in the world even realized existed. Emma pulled her hood tighter as she stared up at the skyscraper — a dark spear piercing the clouds.This building wasn’t supposed to exist.This CEO wasn’t supposed to exist.But the news articles, the sudden shifts in global markets, the collapse of Hunt subsidiaries…All of it pointed to one truth:Someone powerful had awakened.Someone the world called The Ashborne Ghost.Emma knew that the ghost was Liam.Not yet.And the world had no clue what was about to hit it.Beside her, Elias kept checking over his shoulder like a man expecting shadows to grab him by the throat.“We shouldn’t be standing here this openly,” Elias muttered. “Ashborne Consortium has security levels higher than government facilities. If anyone spots us—”Emma didn’t answer.Her gaze was locked on the highest window reflecting the moon
The Man With No Shadow
CHAPTER 24 — THE MAN WITH NO SHADOWThe city lights glimmered against the tinted windows of the black sedan as it cut through the evening traffic like a silent blade. Inside it, Liam sat still—too still. His posture was perfect, his expression calm, yet there was something unnervingly empty about him, like a man carved from marble.He didn’t remember the Hunt family.He didn’t remember Emma.He didn’t remember the boy he once was or the life he had almost died for.But the system had left one thing in him.A target.A name.HUNT.A word that pressed against the inside of his skull like a bruise—unexplained, unconnected, but burning with purpose.His driver glanced at him through the rearview mirror.“Sir… the board is waiting.”Liam blinked once.“Let them.”His voice wasn’t cold. It was precise, sharpened to a single edge.Outside, his tower—the Ashborne Consortium Headquarters—rose like a dark monolith above the city. No one knew who owned it. No one had ever seen the CEO in public.
The Ghost In His Blood
CHAPTER 23 — “The Ghost in His Blood”Darkness bled away slowly.Not like waking up.More like rising from underwater.Liam’s eyes opened to a world he didn’t recognize—white lights humming overhead, cold walls made of reinforced alloy, cables pulsing faintly like veins beneath metal skin.He sat up immediately.Not from confusion.From instinct.A hand moved toward him.He caught it mid-air, twisting the wrist before the owner even gasped.“Easy—! Liam—stop—!”Elias.Liam didn’t know the name.He didn’t know the face.But something in him recoiled violently.He released Elias with a shove.Elias stepped back, rubbing his wrist. “Good. Reflexes are intact.”Liam stood.He was barefoot.Shirt gone.New scars across his ribs.A bandage over his shoulder.He didn’t remember getting them.He didn’t remember anything.Except one thing.A voice like metal scraping across his mind:“HUNT FAMILY: TARGET.”The words pulsed behind his eyes, cold and absolute.A command.A purpose.Nothing else.
The Man Who Won't Break
CHAPTER 22 — “THE MAN WHO WON’T BREAK”The portal slammed shut with a sound like a collapsing star.Emma’s scream cut off mid-echo, swallowed by the blinding light above as the beam sealed itself. For a moment, the world went silent. No alarms, no mechanical whirring—just the deep, vibrating hum of the Sub-Core Basin awakening.Liam stood alone on the shaking platform, chest heaving, every muscle trembling. Emma and Elias had already been pulled through the emergency conduit. He had shoved them toward it. He had chosen to stay behind.Because he knew the system would come for him first.The air around him flickered. Red grids shimmered into existence, scanning him from head to toe.SUBJECT L.STATUS: OBSOLETE FILE.DELETION PRIORITY: MAXIMUM.He let out a breath that tasted like metal.“Yeah,” he muttered. “Come and try.”From the darkness below, the Protocol Beast rose like a corrupted shadow. It wasn’t an animal—it wasn’t even a machine. It was a living error, glitching, rearranging
Fall Into The Core
CHAPTER 21 — Fall Into the CoreThe world vanished beneath Liam’s feet.One instant he stood on the collapsing platform, Emma slipping from his grasp as the Witness—Elias—held out his hand.The next—The floor shattered like glass, and all three of them plummeted into a roaring, endless void.Liam’s stomach lurched as weightlessness swallowed him. The air whipped past in violent bursts, torn by spiraling debris: shards of metal, fragments of lights, broken screens flashing error codes as they fell alongside them like dying stars.Emma’s scream echoed from somewhere below him.“Liam—!”He dove after her.His body cut through the air, reaching for her silhouette flickering in the stuttering red light. Her hair streamed behind her like a trail of gold. Her fingers stretched toward him—He caught her wrist.“Got you!”Her grip closed around him like she was holding onto life itself.Then another voice cut through the void.“I’m right behind you!”Elias dropped toward them with eerie contr
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