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CHAPTER 73 PART 2
Ivan lashed out again from within his shroud of shifting darkness, a lance of compressed ice tearing across the space where Aria had stood a fraction of a second earlier, missing entirely as she rolled aside and countered with a burst of her own condensed magic power.He'd expected this to be finished by now. A handful of exchanges, maybe two, before the supposed washed up Great Mage of Stars crumpled under pressure the way every other overhyped hunter he'd faced over his long, brutal career eventually had.He thought back to his early years, decades ago now, when the title Great Mage had actually meant something before the country's magical establishment stripped it from him over what he still considered an overblown misunderstanding of necessary research. He'd faced real geniuses back then, watched them fold under sustained pressure exactly the way he expected every subsequent generation to fold. Aria Reeves was supposed to be no different, a manufactured legend riding a story too c
CHAPTER 73 PART 1
The monster pack showed no signs of slowing as it closed the distance across the exposed coastline, easily over a hundred strong now, smaller creatures merging into a chaotic, snarling mass that stretched back toward the tree line in a way that made the scale of tonight's crisis impossible to underestimate any longer.Derek's team, still coordinating the evacuation of Team B's civilians a quarter mile back, watched the pursuit unfold with growing horror through their emergency radios, the chatter between response units turning increasingly frantic."He's not going to lose them by running in a straight line," one of Derek's subordinates said, watching the distant figure sprint along the rocky shoreline. "That pack's going to catch him within minutes."Jason kept moving, lungs burning, his mind working through the terrain ahead with the same calculating precision he applied to everything else, searching for an isolated stretch of coastline far enough from any remaining civilians that he
CHAPTER 72 PART 2
Miles away, a news helicopter cut low over the darkened Hawaiian coastline, its powerful spotlight sweeping across streets clogged with evacuation traffic and scattered pockets of monster activity that association response teams were struggling to contain.Inside the cabin, reporter Diane Foster leaned toward her cameraman, voice tight with barely controlled adrenaline as she narrated live for a national audience watching the unfolding catastrophe unfold in real time."We're getting our first aerial footage of the evacuation efforts along the island's western corridor," Diane said, gripping her headset microphone tightly as the helicopter banked to follow a long, winding column of civilians making their way along an exposed coastal road. "Association response teams are working to guide thousands of displaced residents toward secondary shelters after the primary North Shore facility reached capacity."She'd covered gate incidents before, minor ones, contained dungeon breaks that made f
CHAPTER 72 PART 1
Ivan studied Aria with the same unhurried patience a butcher might give livestock, his earlier smile settling into something colder, more calculating now that the initial reveal had passed."You want to know why I'm here," Ivan said, tone almost conversational despite the tension still crackling through the air around them. "I was hired. A client of mine wanted you dealt with, and provided a rather interesting artifact to make the job considerably easier.""Hired by who?" Aria demanded, barrier still raised, magic power humming steadily around her palm."Now that would spoil the fun," Ivan said, reaching into his coat with slow, deliberate movements, producing a small, jagged black shard that pulsed faintly with the same wrongness Aria had learned to associate with demonic corruption. "This little thing is supposed to make you considerably more cooperative once I get close enough to use it properly."Aria's stomach twisted at the sight of it, memories of Vivian Cross's transformation
CHAPTER 71 PART 2
Aria raised both hands toward the final gate, magic power gathering steadily at her fingertips, the familiar rhythm of a closure spell settling into place as easily as breathing after nine consecutive successful attempts tonight.The rest of the team relaxed around her, shoulders loosening, weapons lowering slightly, the exhausted relief of a long night finally approaching its end visible on every face except Henry Burke's, whose attention remained sharp and watchful despite his best attempt to blend into the general atmosphere of winding down.Henry glanced at his wrist device one more time, confirming the coordinates for the final formation, his mind still circling anxiously around the failed splitting strategy and how he might salvage the mission before reporting back empty handed. Whatever backup plan existed for tonight, he hadn't been briefed on the specifics, only told to watch, wait, and report anything unusual through the proper channel the moment an opening appeared.Aria's
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The south shore evacuation zone stretched along a rocky coastline dotted with ten separate gate formations, each one flagged by the association's emergency monitoring team as requiring immediate closure before the surrounding neighborhoods could be safely resettled. Aria stood at the staging point, studying the map projected across a portable display, flanked by a mixed team of six hunters assembled hastily from whichever agencies happened to have available personnel during the chaos. Three of them wore JM Management's insignia stitched into their jackets, standing slightly apart from the others with the kind of loose, deliberate positioning that Aria had learned to recognize as anything but accidental. "Ten gates spread across this stretch of coastline," the lead JM hunter said, a broad shouldered man named Henry Burke, tapping the display with false confidence. "Fastest way to clear them is splitting into pairs. Cover more ground, close them faster." "Splitting into pairs mea
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