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Chapter 95
The creature hit the pavement hard enough to crack the asphalt. Debris burst upward in a dusty halo as Luther shoved Celeste behind a rusted street kiosk, the impact shaking the metal frame above their heads.The thing straightened slowly, its spine stretching unnaturally, its luminous veins pulsing in eerie synchronization with the rippling sky.Its eyes locked on Luther.“We need to move,” Celeste whispered.“Not yet,” Luther murmured.The creature crouched.Then it launched.Luther rolled aside as its claws shredded the kiosk where Celeste had crouched seconds earlier. Metal screeched, Sparks spat across the ground. Celeste ducked and swung a broken pipe, catching the creature across the skull. It barely flinched just snapped its head toward her, mouth twitching like it was learning how to smile.Luther got between them in an instant.“Hey,” he growled. “Come at me, not her.”The creature hesitated.Then something unexpected happened its features twitched, rippling like digital st
Chapter 94
The tremor faded, leaving the underground hub humming like a beast waking from a long sleep. Dust drifted from the ceiling in lazy clouds. Luther pulled Celeste close as another small vibration rippled through the walls, but it passed quickly just an aftershock.“Ascension,” Luther muttered, staring at the last line on the darkened terminal. “Whatever that is… It’s starting now.” Because he wants to initiate phase three and phase four.Celeste swallowed hard, her eyes locked on the flickering red message. “Victor said even I wasn’t told about it. That means it’s worse than Phase Two and it will be much worse.”Luther exhaled through his teeth. “We need to move.”They left the server room, boots clanging against the grated walkway as they headed back down the tunnel. The emergency bulbs overhead dimmed intermittently, struggling to stay alive.As they reached the service ladder near the exit, Luther’s comm device buzzed in his pocket weak, static-filled, barely functioning through the
Chapter 93
The city trembled beneath Luther’s boots as he crossed the ruined transit yard. Sirens wailed in the distance some automated, and some human. Downed drones sparked from broken wings, twitching like dying insects on the cracked pavement. Above, the emergency lights that Cain Global had installed only hours ago pulsed an eerie white across the night sky, painting the world in a washed-out, hospital-cold glow.The “Stabilizer Units” marched through the streets with metallic precision. They weren’t protecting people. Luther knew the truth now: they were collecting Echelon surges gathering Gene-charged civilians like resources, scanning, restraining, siphoning. Victor had turned the entire city into a harvesting field.And if Luther didn’t break into the underground data hub before Victor’s broadcast went live, the entire world would be next.The entrance appeared ahead: a rusted service tunnel disguised beneath a collapsed delivery truck.Adrian had given him the access map with a crook
Chapter 92
The city didn’t just sound different after the wave hit but it breathed differently. Luther felt it the second he and Celeste rounded the corner into East Marrow District. The air held a strange vibration, as if every sound had an echo hidden behind it. Every face on the street carried the same wild flicker of fear, the kind that came when your mind no longer trusted what your senses told you.A woman screamed two blocks away. Someone answered with a crash of metal. Sirens twisted into something less human and more mechanical. And beneath it all, Luther sensed probability bending in erratic waves, each one sharper than the last.Celeste walked close beside him, one hand pressed to the side of her neck where Revenant’s grip had left a bruise. “The surges are getting worse,” she said quietly.“They’ll keep getting worse,” Luther replied. “Victor released Phase Two without stabilizers in place. The whole city is basically a giant fault line.”Celeste took a breath that shook a little,
Chapter 91
Darkness swallowed the room so fast it felt intentional, like someone had ripped the power from the air itself. Luther shifted his stance, placing himself between Celeste and the two Adrians. Marcus swept his gun across the room, listening for movement.“Everyone stay still,” Luther said quietly.No one breathed.Then a small spark crackled in the corner like static gathering itself.Marcus snapped toward it, finger tensed on the trigger. “Luther's right side.”The spark grew, three sparks, then five and all flickering in different corners of the room.Adrian stared in disbelief. “Those aren’t lights… those are probability nodes.”Luther kept his focus on the darkness. “Meaning what?”Adrian swallowed hard. “Meaning he’s manifesting here and now.”One of the sparks surged, taking shape just as a silhouette at first, shimmering like unstable air. Then it flickered again and changed form. Victor Cain’s outline appeared… then vanished. Then someone else’s silhouette appeared.A woman.A
Chapter 90
The city sirens wailed through the shattered night, a sharp, rising howl that rattled the broken windows around them. Luther didn’t slow as he pushed through the blown-out doorway of the old transit station, Celeste right behind him. Marcus limped at their heels, breathing hard, while Adrian brought up the rear with the stolen tablet cradled to his chest like it was made of glass.The city was sinking into chaos.Traffic lights blinked dead. Buildings flickered as generators overloaded. People ran across the square in confused waves, Screens on street corners lit up with Victor’s symbol and the sweeping V that rotated slowly like a blade.Echelon Phase Two was fully active.And they were out of time.“Where’s the emergency access?” Celeste asked, her voice tight as she pulled the scarf higher around her face to block the smoke drifting across the street.“Downstairs.” Adrian gestured toward a subway entrance swallowed in darkness. “If the backup servers are anywhere, they’re beneath
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