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Chapter 99
Marcus didn’t hear the sniper’s second shot only the sound of Celeste’s scream cutting through the alley, sharp enough to crack him open. He dropped low behind the rusted dumpster, pressing a hand to his side. Warm blood seeped between his fingers, thicker than he expected. The first bullet had grazed him, but the second… he didn’t want to look at that one.Celeste reached him within seconds. Her knees hit the wet concrete, hair falling into her face as she grabbed his shoulders.“Marcus, look at me.” Her voice trembled as she tilted his chin up. “Hey! Stay with me.”Marcus tried for a smirk, but the pain ripped it apart halfway. “I’m… I’m good. Just didn’t expect Cain Guardians to start using rooftop shooters.”“You are not good!” Celeste snapped. “You should’ve stayed behind me”“And let you get hit?” Marcus coughed. “Not a chance.”She pressed her palm against the wound, ignoring his grunt. The alley smelled of rain, gunpowder, and fear. Far above them, the sky flickered with the
Chapter 98
The tunnels shook again, dust drifting down like falling ash. Luther steadied Owen with one hand while Marcus scanned the dark corridor ahead. Selene brought up the rear, her fingers flying across her portable console as she fought to decrypt the last portion of New Verdana’s corrupted frequency grid.“Victor’s not wasting time,” she muttered, watching the flickering map brighten. “He’s moving units across the city like he’s been preparing this for years.”“He has,” Luther said quietly. “Everything he’s doing now… he’s done before. On smaller scales in Controlled environments. I was just too young to understand what I was watching.”Owen looked up. “Why did he call that lady his daughter? She looked… different.”Luther’s jaw tightened. “Because she is his daughter. And she’s also the one I have to get back.”They reached a widened section of the tunnel where an old maintenance room had cracked open. Marcus motioned for them to stop. “Take five we need a new exit route. The one on 9t
Chapter 97
The city was coming apart one district at a time.Sirens wailed from every street. Lights flickered on and off like the city was breathing through broken lungs. People shouted from their apartments as cracks ran along sidewalks and power lines sparked overhead.Luther kept his hood pulled low as he crossed a debris-covered intersection. Every billboard he passed still replayed Victor’s message his smug smile, his velvet calm.“Luther, thank you for returning my daughter to me.”The words burned like acid.Celeste wasn’t just taken—she’d been claimed. Used like a bargaining chip in a game Luther hadn’t even known he was playing. He repeated her name every few minutes under his breath, a grounding mantra he couldn’t let go of.Beside him, Marcus scanned rooftops with a compact thermal scope. “No prototypes not yet.”“Then keep moving,” Luther muttered.Selene walked ahead, projector tucked under her arm, eyes locked on the flickering map she’d cobbled together from the corrupted Syndica
Chapter 96
The fires of the last fallen safehouse still glowed in the distance when Luther stepped out of the armored van. Ash drifted across the ruined street like black snow. Celeste tightened her jacket against the cold wind, her eyes looking at the horizon as if expecting shadows to move again.Selene worked beside the van, a portable holo-screen flickering with corrupted lines of code. Every few seconds, a name flashed and then rewrote itself—birth dates, employment records, entire lineages erased and replaced.Phase Two wasn’t only targeting the present.It was rewriting the past and It was erasing every trace that they ever existed.“Another safehouse gone,” Marcus said as he jogged up, his voice ragged. “They’re not bombing them. They’re deleting them digitally and physically. The Syndicate’s entire history is disappearing.”Luther clenched his fists. “Victor wants to erase every place we could run to. Every identity we could use and anyone tied to us.”“He’s erasing resistance before it
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
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