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Chapter 128 – Vault of the First Word
Author: Sami Yang
last update2025-08-01 17:01:18

Under a bruised sky at dawn, Ethan and Ayla boarded a repurposed stealth skimmer. Behind them, the Citadel lay shattered. Ahead—New Avalon. A myth, whispered in fragments, but never officially real.

Ethan stared at the horizon. “The Source Code didn’t just create the Ghost. It nested inside us.”

Ayla nodded, loading restraints. “Then New Avalon holds humanity’s original narrative. The first story they told themselves.”

A hush fell as the engines whispered aloft. They were leaving the ruin of one regime—and chasing a ghost of a different kind.

The landscape below was a fractured memory: deserts where cities once stood, lakes dried to glass, forests regrown in places machines had tried to sterilize. They flew low, weaving through canyons etched by centuries of wind.

Then — a beacon flared on the HUD.

“Infra-red signature at grid 47.2,” Ayla reported. “Unregistered turret systems.”

Ethan aligned targeting sensors. “Command—or rogue group?”

Ayla exhaled. “Not Consortium. Not Civilian. Som
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