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CHAPTER 85 PART 2
Shim Chun-hoo recognized him.Not the way a person recognizes a face from a photograph or a news broadcast. This was deeper. Cellular. The demonic power inside his collapsing body reacted to Jason's presence the way a compass needle reacts to north, swinging toward him with a pull that bypassed thought entirely.Jason felt it too. The air between them thickened. The ambient noise of the street faded into something distant and irrelevant. Shim Chun-hoo's aura was bleeding outward in ragged pulses, a mix of corrupted demonic energy and the remnants of whatever human mana he had been before the transformation. But underneath both layers, Jason sensed something else. Something that responded to his own energy with a resonance that made his skin prickle.The same signature. The same ancient, impossible source. The artifact that Seth had planted inside Shim Chun-hoo and the power that lived inside Jason's own body shared a common origin, and both of them could feel it.Shim Chun-hoo's lips
CHAPTER 85 PART 1
Vivie didn't wait for Shim Chun-hoo to recover.The moment her kick sent him crashing through the parked car, she pressed forward, closing the distance before the dust settled. Her right hand came up and dark energy coiled around her fingers like living smoke, forming into chains that shot outward and wrapped themselves around Shim Chun-hoo's arms and torso as he staggered to his feet.The chains pulled tight. Shadowy links bit into his blackened skin and pinned his arms against his sides. For one second, two seconds, he was held in place, his body locked rigid against the crumpled car door.The onlookers who hadn't fled were pressed against storefronts and crouched behind vehicles, watching in stunned silence. A girl who looked no older than twelve had just kicked a monster across a city street and was now holding him in place with magic that pulsed with a color nobody in the crowd had ever seen before.Vivie planted her feet and threw a punch directly into Shim Chun-hoo's chest.The
CHAPTER 84 PART 2
Lorenzo Ferro was not having a good month.Since the incident at the Awakener Crime Investigation Division where Jason Ward had dismantled his pride in front of an entire room, his reputation within Stella Rossa had taken a hit. Other hunters whispered behind his back. His team leader had quietly removed him from a high profile dungeon assignment and replaced him with a younger, less controversial B rank. Even Nico Bruni, his closest ally, had started keeping a careful distance in public settings.All of it could be traced back to one person. Sophie Quinn. The girl who had stumbled out of nowhere, swung a sword on a television show, and been handed a rank she didn't deserve.At least that was how Lorenzo saw it. And tonight, walking through the Bronx on a routine evening patrol with Nico, his resentment was burning hotter than usual."Look at this," Lorenzo said, gesturing at a billboard above a convenience store. Sophie's face stared down at them from a USBC promotional poster, her e
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Bear Mountain was an hour north of the city, and by the time Jason parked the car at the trailhead, the sun had already dropped below the treeline. Vivie hopped out before the engine died, her nose turned slightly upward like an animal testing the wind."He was here," she said immediately. "The traces are faint but they're layered. He stayed for at least a few hours."Jason followed her up the trail without speaking. The forest was dense and quiet, the kind of place that swallowed sound and kept it. Vivie moved through the undergrowth with a confidence that didn't belong to her small frame, her feet finding solid ground by instinct, her eyes tracking something invisible to Jason.She stopped at a clearing about half a kilometer from the trailhead. The ground was scuffed and uneven, the dirt disturbed in patterns that suggested someone had been sitting, standing, and pacing in the same small area repeatedly."Here," Vivie said. She crouched and pressed her palm flat against the dirt. H
CHAPTER 83 PART 2
Jason found Vivie on the rooftop of Unique Management's building, sitting on the ledge with her legs dangling over the edge and a bag of gummy bears balanced on her knee. The evening wind pulled at her hair and she didn't seem to notice or care."We need to talk," Jason said.Vivie didn't turn around. "The last three times you said that, I ended up destroying a van, infiltrating a congressman's mansion, and arm wrestling an S rank hunter on live television. So forgive me if I'm not jumping with excitement."Jason walked to the ledge and leaned against it beside her. He didn't sit. Vivie's rooftop visits were something she did when she needed space from the noise of pretending to be a normal twelve year old, and he respected the boundary enough to stand rather than settle in."I need your help tracking Shim Chun-hoo."Vivie popped a gummy bear into her mouth and chewed slowly. "The shadow man. The one who sank into the floor and vanished.""Yes.""The one who's been eating mana halls o
CHAPTER 83 PART 1
The mountains north of the city were dark and silent, the kind of silence that belonged to places humans had stopped visiting a long time ago. Trees stood close together like mourners at a funeral, their branches blocking what little moonlight managed to push through the clouds.Seth walked the narrow trail without hurry. His appearance was unremarkable. Average height. Plain coat. A face that would pass through any crowd without drawing a second glance. The only thing unusual about him was the faint pulse of energy beneath his skin, something that didn't register on any human instrument but would have made every awakener within a mile radius feel deeply, instinctively wrong.He found Shim Chun-hoo sitting with his back against a fallen tree, half hidden in shadow. The man looked nothing like the vice-guildmaster who had once commanded rooms with cold authority. His skin was gray now, pulled tight against his skull. The black veins that had started in his hands had spread up past his
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