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Task system.
Here Lucas starts focusing more on the tasks from the system (pitch in ideas to think of tasks given by the system)Him and his wife marriage continues to fail, because she starts questioning him about his wealth, but the system gives him a task that didn’t allow him to tell her the truth, so after constant fight, she left the house.The system gave him a task to do good for the helpless, so he started a giving out scholarship, and soon he bought a school to do more good for the people, but crises started when a student suddenly had food poisoning in the school premises. This create a big problem for the school as the paparazzi flooded the school and they demanded answers, after series of investigation, they discovered nothing, so people started pulling out their kids from the school, and Lucas was beginning to go bankrupt. He thought the system would help him out, but the system gave him a difficult task, to revive the company or loose everything that was given to him. Key point:
Next place we’re going
The air was heavy with pain. Lucas’s breath was shallow, and his heart thumped hard against his chest. His eyes were cold, and a sharp pain enveloped him. The room was filled with the metallic scent of sweat. He suddenly felt faint.He stumbled toward John. John’s eyes widened in shock and he rushed to him as Lucas dropped to the ground. The soft thud of his body rang sharply in the room.John screamed, his voice strained. Lucas was already still on the floor, and the others rushed to his side. Panic erupted in the room, and gasps flew around. Their hearts pounded, and they fought for breath. They shook his body violently, but he wasn't responding. Their frantic screams filled the air, and confusion rocked their minds."Come on, Lucas, Lucas, please wake up! Don't do this to me, please, I beg you! Wake up, not now, please, not now! Please, I beg you! Wake up! Wake the fuck up!" Angela screamed, slamming his chest hard, but Lucas remained unresponsive.His body was growing cold, and hi
Rivals in the dark
The rain came down steady, drumming against the tin awnings of the rival compound. Lucas crouched in the shadows across the street, hood pulled low, every muscle still. His men waited a block away, but this part—this was his gift.He closed his eyes. The city noise faded into background static as he sharpened his focus. His hearing stretched past the rain, past the creak of the fence, until the muffled sounds inside the building sharpened like whispers in his ear.“…we found enough to trace the artifact back two centuries. The Ross line isn’t the only blood tied to it…”Lucas’ jaw tightened. So they already knew part of the history. That was dangerous. Too dangerous.Another voice cut in, deeper, colder.“If we secure the last piece, we’ll control the key. Nothing will stop us. Not Ross, not his pathetic crew.”A ripple of laughter followed, the sound sour in Lucas’ head.He opened his eyes, rain sliding down his face. His instincts burned like fire in his gut—if they had that informa
The ghost map
The linguist adjusted his glasses, pointing at the decrypted route on the screen. “This is incomplete. You can’t expect to find the artifact with half a code. You need a century map something that existed when these routes were real.”John frowned. “You mean one of those ancient relics people sell for thousands? How do we even know it’ll help?”The linguist shrugged. “Because these markers don’t make sense without their original reference points. I can only guess unless I see how it overlays on the real thing.”Angela leaned back in her chair, arms crossed. “Or you’re just trying to get us to waste money on junk. Half the maps on the black market are forgeries. Best way to bait idiots desperate for treasure.”Lucas cut in, sharp. “We don’t have time to argue. If a map gets us closer, we’re buying one.”Angela’s voice hardened. “You don’t even want to verify the source first? That’s reckless.”Lucas glared at her. “Everything about this is reckless. The difference is, I don’t freeze wh
The hunt begins
Lucas knew the government had caught his scent the moment the alerts from his dark web searches started behaving strangely. Firewalls he had slipped through before were suddenly patched tighter, and the digital shadows he relied on felt thinner, too fragile to trust. He could almost feel the unseen hands closing in from across the wires. If he stayed visible, they would cage him in no time.So he did what he always did when cornered—he built another mask.By noon the abandoned power station looked less like a hideout and more like the headquarters of a legitimate enterprise. New signage covered the rusted gate, glossy papers stamped with a corporate seal that did not exist anywhere real. A shell corporation, clean and polished on the surface, its name chosen carefully: Orion Research Institute. On paper it was a cultural and historical consultancy funded by anonymous benefactors. In truth, it was nothing but a smokescreen to funnel money, talent, and resources into his hunt for Bronze
The new hideout
The abandoned power station sat on the edge of the industrial district, far enough from the main road that most people forgot it existed. Its tall skeletal towers still reached into the sky, though most of the steel beams were rusted and eaten by time. Inside, the floor was scattered with broken glass and tangled wires, but Lucas saw something different in the wreckage. To him it was cover, it was silence, and it was a place no rival would think to search so soon after the chaos they had left behind.Angela moved through the hall first, her boots crunching on old concrete, her sharp eyes sweeping every corner with the steady instinct of a soldier. She carried herself like the place belonged to her already, but Lucas knew she was marking every weakness and every point of entry. John followed behind her, his arms full of equipment, a tangle of cables draped over one shoulder and a laptop bag pulled tight to his chest. He looked tired but determined, and he kept muttering about needing t
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