2025-12-05 05:00:49It was not a cold, empty void, but a darkness filled with whispers, echoes, and scents. The scent of jasmine from Mia’s room, the aroma of steel from the Glass Tower, and beneath it all, the faint smell of a freshly painted rental house—a home that now felt hollow. Desmond the Incubus's consciousness was shredded. His system was ruined, his DP was zero, and all that remained was a blind instinct, crawling on the floor, searching for the nearest energy source to survive.
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The Father's Truth
"Don't get cozy, Old Man. You just woke up from a nap."Desmond pulled his hand away roughly after helping his father sit against the base of the empty stasis tube. His tone was sharp, but his hand still steadied the old man's back to keep him from sliding onto the cold metal floor."Cough... Cough!" His father hacked violently, expelling the remaining blue stasis fluid from his lungs. His body was skeletal, his skin pale and translucent like paper, revealing a network of blackened veins from excessive Mana usage.Where was the arrogant Architect from the wanted posters? Where was the god-like figure smirking from the dimensional rift?Before Desmond was only a broken man."Water..." his father rasped, his hand trembling as it reached out."Here," Yoana quickly handed him a water bottle from her tactical belt.His father drank greedily, water dripping from his unshaven chin. After his breathing steadied slightly, he look
A Frozen Reunion
Desmond stepped over the twisted metal remains of the Godslayer, his boots crunching on the shattered glass. Ahead of him, the partition wall leading to the Core Chamber had partially collapsed during the battle, revealing what Helix had been hiding for twenty years.A pillar of blue light.It was a colossal Stasis Tube, towering from floor to ceiling. Inside, suspended in a glowing, viscous Mana fluid, a body floated weightlessly.Desmond stopped. The distance was only five meters, but his legs felt heavy, as if pulled by the gravity of Jupiter."So this is where you’ve been hiding," Desmond whispered. His voice was hoarse, filled with an emotion he couldn't name.He walked closer until his face was reflected in the thick, cold glass of the tube.Behind that glass, his Father slept.He wore a tight white interface suit that clung to him like a second skin. Hundreds of fiber-optic cables and IV lines were embedded in his back, neck, and chest, connecting him to the machinery of Neo-Ed
Flesh Against Machine
"Size isn't everything, Valerius. But that toy of yours is just pathetic compensation."Desmond leaped aside just as the colossal energy sword slammed into the floor.VWOOOM-CRASH!The titanium-reinforced metal floor split like paper. A wave of plasma heat singed the tips of Desmond's hair."Compensation?" Valerius's voice boomed from the Godslayer's speakers. The giant machine moved with terrifying agility, spinning its body without pausing. "This is the pinnacle of evolution! Your flesh is archaic, Desmond. Obsolete. Fragile!"The robot's left hand, equipped with a hydraulic claw, snatched Desmond out of the air.Desmond tried to block, but the momentum was too great.BAM!Desmond was flung into the wall of monitors. Glass shattered everywhere. His back felt crushed."Cough!" Desmond fell to the floor, spitting blood. His regeneration was working slowly due to the signal interference in the room."Sabrun! Hack the system! Kill the drive motors!""Can't do it, Boss! He's using Analog
Rain of Neon and Blood
"EAT THIS PLASMA, YOU RUST BUCKETS!"Nova's scream pierced through the roar of the acid rain. Her mechanical arm transformed into a Cannon, firing volley after volley of blue energy spheres.BOOM! BOOM!Lines of spider-model Security Bots blocking the highway exploded into pieces. Metal shrapnel flew everywhere, shattering the glass storefronts of abandoned shops."Left flank breached!" Yoana shouted over the com-link, taking cover behind the wreckage of a flying car. She fired with deadly precision using a tactical rifle. "Desmond! The overpass is clear! But the sky... the sky is full of flies!"Desmond looked up. Yoana was right. The sky around Helix Tower was no longer dark. It buzzed with hundreds of Attack Drones swarming like angry bees, guarding the only access to Valerius's Penthouse."Flies need swatting," Desmond muttered. He stood on the roof of a cargo truck speeding down the road, driven by one of Nova's crew.Beside him, Miriam's ghostly projection floated, her face pale
Valerius's Plan
"So, let me get this straight. I traveled across time, fought tigers, ate an angel, and fell into a dumpster... just to find out that my Father isn't a supervillain, but a giant Duracell battery?"Desmond stared at the blue hologram floating above the bunker's strategy table. It displayed the structure of the Helix Tower, with a pulsing red dot at its base: The Core."Not just a battery," Yoana corrected. She had swapped her stiff office suit for a tactical combat bodysuit provided by Nova. "He is a Filter. Without him processing the dirty Mana from the earth into clean energy, Valerius would have no power. But now..."Yoana swiped her hand. The hologram turned a warning red."...Valerius is bored of being a CEO. He wants to be God.""A Digital God," Nova added, typing furiously on her virtual keyboard. "I just tapped into Helix's internal comms. Valerius is prepping Project Ascension for tonight. He's going to transfer his consciousness into the City Network, using the last of your F
Interrogating the Secretary
"Dammit! She's locked tight! I can't get in!"Nova slammed her mechanical hand onto the metal table. In the cramped, dimly lit interrogation room of the Undergrid bunker, Yoana sat on a steel chair with perfect posture. Her hands were cuffed to the table, but her face was as calm as a frozen pond."Military-grade Black-ICE firewall," Nova growled in frustration, yanking the data cable from the port in her own neck. "Valerius installed a suicide encryption in his secretary's brain. If I force a hack, her brain will melt.""Melting sounds counterproductive," Desmond commented, leaning against the door with his arms crossed. He stared at Yoana. "What do you think, Miss? Want your brain turned into porridge?"Yoana turned her head slowly. Her eyes, usually streaming with data, were now empty."I do not possess the authority to provide Central Tower access codes," Yoana answered in a monotone voice. "Confidentiality Protocol 99. Please execute me.""See?" Nova pointed at Yoana. "She's gone
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