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CHAPTER 223
The rain was a constant, punishing rhythm, hammering the streets and bouncing off metal and asphalt with unrelenting ferocity. Jeffery moved through the city like a shadow, his coat drenched, boots leaving dark streaks on wet concrete. Each step was measured, deliberate, every breath controlled. He didn't just move—he read the environment, the storm, the slightest tremor of the city, as if it spoke to him in secret.Above him, neon lights flickered and buzzed, half-drown in the downpour. Each colour cast jagged reflections across puddles, distorted and alive, like broken mirrors of the world he was about to confront.Aadam's influence was spreading. The mutated men were only the beginning—reckless pawns flung into the streets to test him, to gauge his response. Jeffery knew the pattern. The chaos wasn't random; it was precise. And it would escalate.Aadam wanted a chaotic world—one which he would control. And by now the realization hit Jeffery that it might not necessarily be Aadam fa
CHAPTER 222
The storm didn't ease—not for a second. It hammered the city as if trying to peel it open, layer by layer, until the ugly truth underneath spilled out. The motel groaned under the assault, the thin and ancient walls shivering with each gust of wind.It's going to be a long night, Jeffery thought as he stepped out into the hallway. The Philosopher's Stone was secretly tucked away beneath his coat, sealed so that it couldn't be detected. But its faint warmth still pulsed against his ribs like a second heartbeat, making him swallow hard.The Philosopher's Stone wasn't dangerous. He was just afraid that it would suddenly react, sending out a signal which would call in his enemies. It had done so one night at the Stirling family manor. Back then the cops had come to investigate assassination attempts. Everyone had seen it, including the late villainous Cpatain Daniel and Jeffery's late apprentice, Dan Kimiko.As he walked through the hallway, his boots thudded softly against the damp floor
CHAPTER 221
The night pressed against the city like a living thing, heavy with silence and anticipation. Rain had yet to fall, but the air was thick and metallic, as if the heavens themselves were holding their breath. The smell of danger loomed in the air, lingering for a very long period of time. Although the night seemed to be peaceful, it was far from it. Something bad was going to happen soon. The neon sign outside Room 19 of the crumbling motel flickered erratically, casting sickly yellow pulses across Jeffery's sharp features as he hunched over his crude alchemical setup. The Philosopher's Stone lay before him, nestled in a silver casing engraved with sigils, its faint glow insistent—a heartbreak in the dark, resonating with Qi and Ether. The chemicals on the table exuded a faint, sweet burn. Sulfur, crushed herbs, traces of crushed minerals—a scent that Jeffery had come to associate with control and potential.Tick. Tock.He stared at the Stone, fingers drumming a silent rhythm on the sca
CHAPTER 220
The rain-soaked alleys were Kael and Jace' perpetual purgatory—a labyrinth of crumbling brick, neon reflections, and desperation. They grew up on scraps, sleeping on rooftops on in abandoned buildings, their fists clenched tight against a world that didn't care. Kael, wiry and sharp-eyed, lost his mother to a factory fire no one cared to investigate; the smell of charred flesh lingered in his nightmares. Jace, tall and scarred, was abandoned by a father too drunk to remember him, left to fend against the cold with a broken rib and a fading scream. No safety nets. No chances. Just hunger, anger, and the wrong side of the law.They fell into a gang out of necessity, running errands, pulling small jobs—until the night they got caught in a sting. Petty crimes led to a beatdown in a cramped police cell, bruises mingling with the stench of piss and lost hope. That was when they met Ronan. Ronan, who had a taste for the high-stakes, introduced them to the Crimson Vein—a cheap, brutal cocktai
CHAPTER 219
The rain didn't let up, drumming against the alley walls like a thousand impatient fingers as Jeffery Flamel led the three men deeper into the cramped, alley—a narrow throat between towering buildings where the city's pulse faded into skeletal silence. Moonlight seeped through a slit of sky above, casting fractured shadows over puddles and discarded trash, making the air itself seem to decay. The stench of rot mingled with the metallic tang of old blood, an olfactory reminder that nothing here was meant to last. But Jeffery wasn't concerned with the past. He was sculpting the future—with them as his chisel.Aadam thought he'd be able to control the world with his innovations, Jeffery thought within himself. I bet he didn't think that I'd find a way to control the very innovations which he depends on...Here was he trying to turn the same men whom Aadam sold the Dantian awakening drugs to, while the creator himself was somewhere drowning in his illusory dreams of controlling the world.
CHAPTER 218
The alley shivered under the tension of barely—contained energy. Rain splashed against the cracked concrete, glinting off the black veins that snaked like living ink across the the men's mutated forms. Each twitch, each pulse of muscle, sent ripples of Nether surging through them, but their eyes—wild and uncomprehending—showed the truth: they had no idea how to wield what they possessed.Jeffery Flamel breathed evenly, hood shadowing his face, holding aura of Qi and Ether flickering subtly around him. His mind raced, calculating movements, anticipating reactions. The more they struggle, the more they destabilize themselves. This is both a threat and an opportunity."You think power is what makes you masters," Jeffery said softly, voice calm but cutting through the charged air, "but you are children in storm-tossed bodies. That is the difference between creation and annihilation.""That's total bullshit, old man!" the tallest snarled, fists lashing, black veins writhing violently. "I..
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