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Chapter 24: Father’s Last Command
Author: Olso Sterling
last update2026-02-27 15:10:05

The smoke from the explosion cleared, leaving me on my knees in a pool of freezing blue fluid. The Neural Chamber was a graveyard of shattered glass. I ignored the alarms screaming in the walls and crawled toward the center of the room. The main tank was cracked, its life-support humming like a dying hornet.

"Osric, the rig’s core is destabilizing!" Marcus’s voice crackled through my neural link. "The explosion triggered a chain reaction in the cooling vents. You have three minutes before this
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