2025-05-09 07:07:00The trio stumbled through the scorched field surrounding the compound, coughing through the smoke and brushing ash from their skin. Amira clutched her side—shrapnel had grazed her during the blast. Cassia kept scanning the shadows, expecting retaliation that hadn’t yet come.
Darius turned toward the burning compound, jaw tight. The fire was feeding off the corrupted steel and decades of lies buried beneath concrete. But amid the flames, something felt… wrong.
Too easy.
“We need to disappear. Now,” he said, eyes still locked on the building.
Amira nodded, pain evident in her features. “We can use the safehouse in Queens. No one knows about it but us.”
They started moving, half-running, half-limping down the road toward the pickup point Darius had arranged earlier. The moment their feet hit the asphalt, Cassia’s phone buzzed.
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Chapter 112 – The Possession Protocol
The chamber pulsed with sterile white light.Ethan stood shirtless in the center of the convergence ring, electrodes fused to his spine, neck, and temples. The neural uplink cables hummed like vipers waiting to strike. Cold breath coiled from his mouth as the temperature dropped—to stabilize brain activity.Saria moved around him like a conductor in a symphony of chaos. Her fingers worked across floating glyph-keyboards, rerouting firewalls, splicing layers of the Ghost Code’s architecture.“Your vitals will spike,” she warned, voice tight. “There’s no simulation that can prepare you for this.”Ethan nodded. “Not my first ride through hell.”She paused in front of him, eyes glistening. “If your synapses begin to fragment—”“Then you pull me out,” he finished, more command than request.Saria didn’t answer. She looked up at him like this was the last time.Because maybe it was.Nova, Kael, and Zane stood behind the glass partition, watching. Zane crossed himself silently. Nova mouthed
Chapter 111 – Echoes of Tomorrow
Ethan Cross stood atop the ruined balcony of the former Dominion Prime complex, staring out at a world struggling to catch its breath.Below him, people swarmed through the remnants of tyranny—engineers pulling apart Dominion consoles, archivists pulling files from collapsed data cores, survivors painting over black-and-silver emblems with color and hope.And in the middle of it all: the Blackwell crest.Reborn.Ethan exhaled. The wind carried dust, ash, and something else—uncertainty. Because victory was never absolute. And freedom, he knew, always had a half-life.Nova stepped up beside him, arms folded.“Crowds are getting thicker,” she said. “Some people want to rebuild. Others want revenge.”“Typical,” Ethan muttered.Nova glanced at him. “Zane says there&rsqu
Chapter 110 – Deus Protocol
Silence spread like frost.The kind that burrowed under the skin and numbed everything it touched.No one spoke for a long beat after Saria said it.“Project Deus is already awake.”Zane leaned against the pod console, visibly rattled. “What do you mean awake? Like… alive alive?”Saria nodded slowly. “Not just conscious. Active. Integrated. And evolving.”Nova’s voice was steel. “Then what the hell did we just destroy?”“You destroyed the Ghost Code,” Saria replied, blinking against the stark light. “A firewall. A container designed by Blackwell after we discovered Deus was beyond our comprehension. We couldn’t kill it. So we trapped it—in fragments—scattered across civilian infrastructure, financial AI, defense proxies.”
Chapter 109 — Cryo Vault Echo
The sub-orbital drone descended with surgical precision, slicing through clouds as the rebel crew held steady. Ethan stood at the edge of the command deck, eyes fixed on the jagged mountain range rising in the distance—Oblivion’s Reach. A dead zone. No signal, no satellites, no Dominion surveillance. Perfect hiding ground for what they were looking for.“This doesn’t look like a facility,” Zane muttered from behind him. “It looks like hell froze over.”“That’s because it did,” Nova said, tapping on her tablet. “Saria’s vault is buried inside the dead cap of Mount Kareth. This place was one of Blackwell’s deepest prototypes—built before the fall. A cryo research bunker later erased from Dominion records.”Ethan narrowed his eyes. “Erased. But not forgotten.”The drone settled on a natural ledge, kicki
Chapter 108 – Blackout Protocol
The corridor exploded behind them, a bloom of heat and pressure shoving Ethan and Nova forward like rag dolls. Nova hit the floor first, skidding across scorched concrete, the data drives clutched to her chest. Ethan rolled hard, shielding the detonation switch as a metal door collapsed just inches behind him.The countdown from the Ghost Code’s purge program ticked in his ear—71 seconds remaining.“Go!” Ethan yelled, hauling Nova up. “We can’t stay in the shaft when the core blows!”They sprinted through the undercarriage tunnel, boots pounding through puddles and debris. Red emergency lights painted everything in blood tones. Overhead, the Citadel groaned—a sound like a dying animal, steel twisting in protest.Nova tapped her earpiece. “Zane, come in! Zane, do you copy?”A faint signal buzzed back. “—nova&h
Chapter 107 — Terminal Access
The first thing Ethan noticed was the silence.Not the absence of noise—no, the room was alive with the soft hum of servers and blinking lights—but the dead weight kind of silence, thick and watching, as if the building itself was holding its breath. The Citadel’s Sub-Level Zero was nothing like the floors above. There were no glass walls, no ergonomic comforts, no sign that this space had ever been meant for people.Just steel, darkness, and code.Nova walked ahead, her back rigid, her eyes scanning every terminal. The decrypted algorithm Ethan and Zane had used to unlock the lower firewall was still processing, strings of data cascading over floating holo-screens like waterfalls of alien script.“Are you getting this?” Ethan asked, his voice a low murmur. “None of this was in the mainframe documentation. Not even redacted.”“I’m getting it,” Nova muttered, pulling her tablet cl
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