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Chapter 24 : Another Hunter Appears
The night settled over the abandoned district like a held breath. The safehouse windows were blacked out, the hallways lit only by a single lantern Mara kept low to conserve power. Kain was in the training room, his palms flat on the table, breathing through the aftershocks of the Trap Vision. His heartbeat still thudded like a warning drum.Mara paced behind him, frustrated but trying not to show it.“You shouldn’t have pushed that deep,” she muttered. “Echoes don’t lie, but traps distort reality. They use your fear against you.”Kain swallowed. “I know. But I had to see. I couldn’t just ignore it.”“You could.” She stopped pacing. “That vision was designed for you, Kain. Dominion-level psy-tech. Someone knew exactly how you think.”The last words hung in the air like smoke.Someone knew.Someone was watching.Before Kain could respond, the lantern flickered.Then died.The whole safehouse plunged into a suffocating darkness.Mara froze. Not a sound came from her, but Kain felt her t
Chapter 23 : Trap Vision
The world still felt unsteady.Even after leaving the training room, even after Elara forced him to drink water and sit down, even after Jaryn triple-checked his pulse with trembling hands Kain felt like the floor was tilting beneath him, as though he was half inside the Echo and half outside it.He could still smell smoke.Still feel heat on his skin.Still hear the burning man’s voice echoing in his head:“You are the spark.”“You must choose who you save.”“I am what you refuse to become.”He pressed his palms to his eyes, trying to quiet the memory.It didn’t fade.Elara paced in front of him, boots hitting the concrete floor in nervous rhythm. She had pulled her hair back into a tight knot, but a few strands had escaped and fell across her face. Her jaw was clenched, her eyes sharp.Jaryn, meanwhile, sat on an overturned crate, elbows on his knees, staring at Kain like he was looking at a puzzle that didn’t make sense.“Kain,” Elara finally said, stopping in front of him. “Tell m
Chapter 22 : The Vision of The Burning Man
The world snapped apart like torn paper.Kain fell through the Echo, not drifting the way he usually did but plunging, dragged downward by a gravitational pull he couldn’t fight. The sound around him warped into a deep mechanical groan, like the turning of ancient gears. His breath vanished. His body felt weightless and heavy at the same time.ThenEverything stilled.Heat hit him first.A suffocating wave of scorching air slammed into his chest, forcing a gasp from his lungs. When he opened his eyes, he saw fire. Fire everywhere. Flames spiderwebbing up walls of cracked concrete. Smoke coiling into a sky the color of bruised steel.He stood in what looked like the ruins of a warehouse blackened beams, melting metal, sparks raining from a collapsing overhead walkway.And in the center of the inferno…A man.Burning.Not screaming.Not fighting.Just standing engulfed in roaring flames that clung to his body like living vines.Kain staggered backward. His throat tightened. Even thoug
Chapter 21: First Controlled Echo
The room felt too small for what Kain was about to attempt.It was an old storage hall in the Safehouse, converted into a training chamber. Concrete walls. Steel rafters overhead. A single industrial bulb hummed above, flickering faintly like it sensed the tension in the air.Elara stood across from him, arms folded, her expression a war between confidence and fear.“Remember,” she said softly, “Echoes aren’t meant to be forced. You’re not manipulating the future… you’re listening to it. You’re letting it speak.”Kain nodded. His chest rose and fell too fast.He’d seen dozens of Echoes over the past few days flashes of danger, fragments of conversations that hadn’t happened yet, emotional shadows of moments seconds ahead. But they always came to him. Never once had he called one forward.And now he was supposed to summon one.“Okay.” He exhaled. “Tell me again. The steps.”Elara walked closer, stopping right where the light cut between them.“One: quiet your mind. Strip away everythi
Chapter 20 : Kain’s Training Begins
The next morning arrived gray and cold.Wind pushed through the cracks of the old safehouse, rattling loose boards and carrying dust across the worn floor. The place smelled of old wood, damp stone, and a hint of smoke from the lantern Eli lit hours ago.Kain stood in the center of the main room feet apart, shoulders tense, fists curled at his sides.His breath fogged slightly in the air.Aria circled him slowly, hands behind her back, eyes sharp and calculating.“So,” she said, “you want to learn how to control your Echoes?”Kain swallowed.“Not just control. I want to understand them. Use them. Before they drop on me and leave me gasping like an idiot.”Aria arched a brow. “You’re not an idiot.”“Did you see how I nearly tripped over a broken pipe yesterday?”Aria smirked. “Fine. A talented idiot.”Kain groaned softly, but a faint smile pulled at the corner of his mouth. Somehow, Aria’s teasing always made the fear settle.Eli sat on the floor nearby, leaning against a stack of crat
Chapter 19 : Orin’s Directive
The Dominion headquarters never slept.Not really.Even at midnight, the air inside the towering obsidian structure pulsed with quiet, controlled violence an orchestra of humming servers, surveillance drones gliding overhead, and soldiers moving in perfect formation through silver-lit halls.In the center of it all stood Commander Orin Voss, rigid and silent before a massive holographic screen.His eyes cold, calculating, unblinking were fixed on the feed glowing before him.Kain Hale.Alive.Growing stronger.And no longer hiding.The boy had awakened the Echo-Prime signature.Just like his father.Orin’s jaw clenched.“Commander.”A Dominion lieutenant approached with crisp steps and saluted sharply.“Sir, the Council has issued an update to Protocol 7.”Orin didn’t turn.“Proceed.”The lieutenant swallowed.“Effective immediately… the Hale target is classified Kill-On-Sight if capture is not guaranteed.”The room fell into a tense, metallic silence.Orin finally turned his head slo
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