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Chapter 668
Alex met his gaze without flinching.“I stole the original Prussian designs,” he said. “Then I gathered the brightest minds Xia has—many of them from Wudang itself—and we reverse-engineered every component. The drones that now guard these provinces were built here, by Xia’s people, using Xia’s resources. They watch our borders. They help our farmers. Tell me why I should not use tools that protect our people.”Namgung’s face darkened to a deep, furious red. His knuckles whitened around the hilt of his sword.“That is evil Prussian technology,” he snarled. “How can you bring it into Xia and call it your own?”The old master’s qi began to rise again, thick and heavy, pressing down on the ruined courtyard like a coming storm.Alex took one deliberate step forward. His voice remained calm, clear, and unafraid.“Old man, if these technologies can help the people of Xia—better harvests, safer lives, food on every table—why shouldn’t I use them for our people’s good?”Namgung’s mouth opened,
Chapter 667
The fifth floor of the Prime Minister’s pavilion detonated outward in a storm of splintered timber and pulverized stone. An old man in blood-red robes descended through the smoke on a blade of pure qi, his sword still singing with the force of the strike. He landed amid the wreckage, eyes blazing, and drove the weapon through the two figures seated at the war table. They did not bleed. They did not scream. The blade passed through them as if through colored mist. The images of Alex Bai and Zhuge Liang flickered once, twice, then dissolved into harmless light and scattered pixels. Namgung Hyuk froze. The righteous fury on his ancient face cracked into raw disbelief. Below, thirty meters underground in a reinforced bunker lined with concrete and layered wards, Alex and Zhuge Liang remained perfectly still, but the faint tightening around his eyes said he understood the same terrible truth. This one had gotten through. Alex had prepared for exactly this moment. Every sensitive meet
Chapter 666
The war room in Liang Province’s capital stank of old wine, sweat, and the iron tang of too many armed men in one place.Torches guttered along the stone walls, throwing long shadows across the scarred oak table where four warlords sat like wolves around a fresh kill.They had stopped killing each other for one reason only: the enemy had taken Liu Wei. The real emperor. That single blow had landed harder than any army. It had forced the truce no one wanted.Dong Zhuo had once commanded the largest army in Xia—two hundred thousand soldiers.His four generals each held fifty thousand men under their banners.The endless conflicts between them served only to weaken all parties. In the end, they chose to set aside their grudges and form a temporary truce to consolidate their strength—so that they might later divide Xia between themselves.Li Jue leaned over the map, thick finger dragging across the faded lines. “Zhang Ji takes fifty thousand east. Yan and Qing provinces. You kill Bai Xiao
Chapter 665
The emperor was escorted to the grand harem mansion.Inside the bathroom, steam rose from a wooden tub. Clean linen towels waited on a bench. The four women who had carried him across half of Xia had already changed into simple but elegant robes—soft blues and creams that moved like water when they walked.They helped him out of the filthy servant’s clothes without a word of command, their hands gentle and practiced. One tested the water temperature with her wrist. Another poured warm oil into the bath that smelled faintly of pine and something clean.They washed the grime and smoke from his skin and hair with the same quiet efficiency they had used to spirit him out of a burning palace.He ate afterward at a low table—rice porridge first, then thin slices of tender pork, steamed greens, and a clear broth that didn’t sit heavy in his starved stomach. The women served him without hovering. One kept the bowl warm with her hands. Another refilled his cup of weak tea the moment it emptied
Chapter 664
One year ago.The lantern light in the governor’s private study had burned low. Changyi’s night sounds drifted up from the streets below—distant laughter from a tavern, the creak of a night watchman’s boots.Alex stood at the tall window, hands clasped behind his back, watching the city.Zhuge Liang spoke. “My Lord. Dong Zhuo holds the Emperor like a trophy. Yuan Shao and the other warlords circle the capital, each one dreaming of the dragon throne. Every ambitious man in Xia wants to be king.” He paused. “Don’t you?”Alex turned. The cold smile that touched his mouth did not reach his eyes.“A man has to dare to dream big,” he said. “But a man also has to know the difference between an opportunity and the kind of temptation that burns everything he’s built to ash.”He stepped away from the window and began to pace.“If I reach for the throne now, every warlord from here to Luoyang will mark Yan and Qing as the next battlefield. We cannot hold off attacks from one side, let alone two
Chapter 663
Chen Hao drove the shovel into the packed earth once more, the blade biting deep with a dull scrape. His shoulders burned.Sweat stung his eyes and ran in dirty tracks down the dust on his face. For a few heartbeats the rhythm felt almost right again—the old, simple rhythm of a man and the land.Then the Gaia voice came, sliding straight into his skull.“Chen Hao. Your scheduled instruction period begins now. Report to the training platform.”He froze mid-lift. The shovel stayed buried in the dirt.“I hate training,” he muttered.The words came out rough, almost childish. He was no scholar. Never had been. Before the rebellion he had been nothing but a dirt-poor farmer.Now these machines wanted to turn him into something else.The Wudang sect and whatever sorcery they had brought with them had given the governor power no man in Xia had ever held, and Chen Hao wanted no part of it.He wanted his hands on a hoe. He wanted the honest ache of muscle and callus. He did not want to learn h
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