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The next morning dawned silver and cold.Kiera stood on the balcony of the library, staring at the horizon where the first light crawled over the Dominion’s wreckage. The city still hummed faintly—a pulse that came and went, like a sleeping creature drawing breath.They had power again. Water. Even communications in some districts. But none of it came from human hands.Darren joined her, wrapping his arms against the chill. “We restored twenty percent of the grid overnight,” he said. “Except… we didn’t actually do anything. The circuits just started self-repairing.”Kiera’s gaze stayed fixed on the skyline. “It’s him. Or what’s left of him.”“Then we should be grateful,” Darren said quietly. “Without that… whatever it is… we’d still be burning candles.”“Grateful?” She turned, her expression sharp. “We don’t know what we’re building—or who’s building through us.”He didn’t reply.By midday, the reconstruction had become organized chaos. The Vanguard had transformed into engineers, mas
The Dominion Remembers
The city woke screaming.Not in pain, but in memory.At exactly 03:00, every powered object in the Dominion—every comm chip, radio coil, and cracked screen—flooded with white light. Buildings that had been tombs began to hum again. The static of ten million lost voices stitched itself into a single phrase that rolled across the skyline:THE DOMINION REMEMBERS.Kiera watched it from the library roof. The message repeated three times, each pulse slower, deeper, like a heartbeat finding rhythm after death. When it stopped, silence fell so absolute that it made her ears ring.Darren climbed up behind her, his face washed pale by the afterglow. “Half the grid’s back online. We didn’t do that.”“I know,” she said.He hesitated. “Then who did?”She didn’t answer. She was already thinking of Leon’s voice in the tower, of the line between him and the thing that had looked through his eyes.By morning, reports poured in from the outer districts.People were waking with words they didn’t remembe
The Ghost in the Code
The Dominion had learned to whisper again.Three weeks after the fall of the light, the air still smelled of ash and ozone. The storms were gone, but the sky refused to turn blue; it hovered between silver and smoke, as if the world couldn’t decide whether it had survived.Kiera walked through what was left of the capital. Broken towers jutted from the ground like the ribs of a buried giant. Between them, survivors scavenged for wiring, batteries, anything that could still spark. They didn’t look at her when she passed. They had learned not to look at anyone for too long—the reflections sometimes moved on their own.She had heard the rumors. Everyone had.At night, the city lights flickered in patterns that no one had programmed. Voices leaked through dormant radios, whispering in a language of static and breath. A handful of people had vanished near the old comm towers, their last transmissions ending with a single word: Butcher.Kiera kept walking. She was tired of ghosts.The makes
The Fall of Light
There was no sound at first—only light.It wasn’t the light of fire or dawn, but something deeper, older. It ate through shadow, through steel, through thought. It erased the concept of color until everything became white and infinite.Leon felt it before he saw it: the pulse ripping through his chest, the system screaming inside his veins. Every fragment of code in the Dominion flared at once, trying to defend itself, to rewrite reality fast enough to survive.It failed.[KERNEL FAILURE: EREBOS CORE BREACH.] [ENERGY SURGE: 1420%. STABILITY LOST.]The Cathedral’s walls peeled apart like paper. Columns twisted upward, liquefying into ribbons of molten data. The floating city began to collapse inward, folding upon itself as if gravity had been replaced by grief.And through it all, Kiera’s voice cut across the storm.“Leon!”He turned. The light blurred her shape, but he could still see her eyes—fierce, alive, refusing to vanish. The reactor on her back was already fracturing, its core
The Dominion Ascends
The sky was burning.Kiera woke to the taste of iron and dust. Her ears rang, her body ached, and for a long moment she couldn’t tell if she was still alive. The world around her pulsed red—rubble glowing from within as if the earth itself had caught fire.She rolled onto her back. Above her, the Cathedral hung in the sky like a new moon—its spires unfolded into enormous wings of light, its underbelly dripping streams of molten data that fell like rain. Lightning crawled across the clouds, tracing the symbol of the Butcher.The Dominion had lifted its heart out of the earth.Kiera forced herself upright. Her armor was cracked, one gauntlet missing, blood streaked down her cheek. Around her lay the scattered remains of the Ghost Vanguard. A few were moving, dazed, burnt; most weren’t moving at all.“Darren,” she croaked.He stirred a few meters away, clutching his shoulder where the armor had fused to the skin. “Still breathing,” he muttered. “For now.”She helped him sit up. Both of t
The Nexus Awakens
The city was singing again.Not with voices, not with life — but with current. A low, electric hum rolled through the streets like a heartbeat. Every surface trembled under it, every broken screen flickered faintly as if waiting for orders.The Dominion was waking up.And the closer they came to the Cathedral District, the louder that song became.Kiera led the Ghost Vanguard through the ruins, her boots splashing through shallow puddles that glowed faintly from below. The air was thick with heat and static, heavy enough to make breathing hurt.Leon walked beside her, silent, his gaze fixed forward. His cloak trailed behind him like shadow and smoke. The faint white light pulsing under his skin had grown brighter since the last battle — stronger, steadier, less human.He could feel the Dominion in every nerve, like the city was breathing through him again. He didn’t tell Kiera that. She could see it in his eyes anyway.[EREBOS FRAGMENTS: 6 REMAINING.] [MERGE STATUS: 64%. LOCATION: CAT
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