2026-01-26 07:17:59"I like those odds," Desmond muttered.
He took a step forward. He didn't hesitate. He bent down and plunged his right hand straight into the box."Don't!" Miriam whispered.Desmond grabbed the stone.SIZZLE!The sound of searing flesh was audible in the silent room. White smoke billowed from between Desmond's fingers. The smell of burnt protein filled the air."ARGH!" Desmond growled low, his teeth grinding together.The pain was
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Beneath the Wreckage
"Don't move. That ship is scanning the area."Desmond pressed Nova and Yoana into the oily mud. Above them, the sleek black Arbiter aircraft hovered silently, sweeping the wasteland of trash with thin blue laser beams.Desmond's father lay unconscious behind a stack of used tires, his breathing weak but steady."They're looking for life signs," Nova whispered, her robotic eye spinning wildly, trying to mask their body heat signatures. "If that laser touches us, we'll be atomized.""They won't see us," Desmond said calmly. He activated the remnants of his *Dark Veil*, wrapping their small group in a shroud of shadow. "Get in there. Fast."Desmond pointed to the wreckage of a giant cargo plane that had split in two, lying on its side about ten meters from their position.One by one, they crawled quickly under the cover of the heavy rain. Into the dark, rust-smelling belly of the aircraft."Safe," Yoana sighed, leaning her back against the cold metal wall. She slid down to a sitting posi
Escape from the Collapsing City
"DAMN SIRENS! SHUT THEM OFF!"Nova slammed the control panel on the wall with her mechanical hand. But the holographic screen only displayed one message blinking in red: [LOCKDOWN: ACTIVE].The floor beneath their feet shook violently. A tremor that rattled their teeth. Far below, at the base of Helix Tower, the Mana Reactor was undergoing a meltdown."Nova! How long until your pickup arrives?!" Desmond shouted, balancing himself while supporting his weak father."It's not coming!" Nova turned around, her face deathly pale under the emergency lights. "The tower's air defense system has gone rogue! The roof Auto-Turrets are shooting down anything that flies near! My ship can't land without being turned into fireworks!""So we're trapped?" Yoana reloaded her pistol, even though she knew bullets were useless against a nuclear explosion. "Floor 200. Ten minutes. Emergency stairs?""Stairs are sealed by 20-inch steel doors," Nova answ
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
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