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The flickering flame in the fireplace reflects off Darius’s eyes as he reviews the decrypted data on the screen. His mind churns through the information like gears grinding through steel. Geneva. The Black Summit. Names he’s heard whispered behind doors sealed by power and blood.
Cassia slides into the seat beside him, holding a cup of black coffee. No words—just presence. Just understanding.
“We’re running out of time,” Darius mutters, tapping the blinking red node labeled “Summit Alpha.” “Lucien was just the first lever. Someone else is still pulling the strings.”
Cassia sets the cup down. “Who?”
“I don’t know yet. But whoever it is… they want me alive.”
She arches a brow. “You sure about that?”
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Chapter 37- Embers in Code
The night air was sharp with the tang of ionized ozone, a storm building over the city like a mirrored version of the chaos roiling inside Elias Vane.He leaned over the steel balcony of the derelict high-rise on the outskirts of Ravenport, staring at the blinking city lights below. Across the sprawl, hidden among the illuminated windows, was someone pulling the strings—someone who had orchestrated the death of his brother, the frame job, and the Consortium’s rise. Elias could almost feel them watching. Always watching.Behind him, Natalia stepped out of the shadows of the rooftop access, her boots quiet on the gravel. “We decrypted the second half of the Architect’s fail-safe file,” she said, slipping a flash drive into his palm. “You need to see this.”Elias plugged it into the tactical interface on his wrist. The projection flickered into life above the drive—lines of co
Chapter 36- The Ghost Signal
Zurich – Black-Site Facility, 72 Hours LaterEven buried beneath a kilometer of stone and steel, Darius felt the tremor.Not physical—psychic. A pulse. A murmur. Like a thought that didn’t belong to him brushing against his mind.He was in the observation chamber, watching Aurora’s suspended form. Still. Silent. The pod glowed faintly under quantum dampeners and bio-neural stasis fields. Around him, data streamed from every corner of the chamber—vitals, resonance scans, synaptic flickers.All stable. All quiet.Too quiet.Jules burst into the room, tablet in hand, face pale. “We’ve got a problem.”Darius didn’t flinch. “How bad?”Jules turned the display. “Something’s pinging the relay satellites again. Weak signal. Buried in junk code, boun
Chapter 35-The Backup Protocol
Two Days Later – Paris OutskirtsThe air still tasted like smoke and ozone. Even from the hill overlooking the wreckage, the haunting silence of the Lucidity Tower’s fall echoed in the minds of those who had witnessed it. Scavenger drones swarmed the ruins, dissecting the once-immortal structure piece by piece, like ants crawling over a fallen god.Darius stood alone, the file Jules had given him clutched tightly in his hand. It was encrypted, triple-layered with Farouk’s signature codes. That meant one thing: the contents were volatile. Possibly world-ending.He lit a cigarette, staring into the wreckage. The silence didn’t comfort him. It warned him.Jules joined him moments later, eyes rimmed with exhaustion. “Decryption’s complete,” he said. “You need to see this.”They descended into a temporary ops trailer set up a few h
Chapter 34-Tower of Illusions
Paris – Lucidity Tower PerimeterThe rain came down like whispers—soft, insidious, and heavy with foreboding. Paris glittered in the distance under the weight of modern decay, its once-romantic streets now lined with surveillance, drones, and the faint blue glow of Lucidity’s omnipresent influence.The tower loomed over the skyline like a monolith. Jet black, faceless, alive with veins of neon circuits pulsing up its steel skin, it stood as Aurora Lang’s cathedral—her sanctuary, her fortress, her crown jewel.Darius adjusted the cuffs of his tactical suit as he crouched beside a rusting ventilation access, breathing in the cold air that smelled faintly of ozone and oil. Beside him, Cassia synced her scanners, eyes sharp beneath her wet, tousled hair.“Security grid’s tighter than a drum,” she muttered. “Biometric locks, heat sensors, quantum encry
Chapter 33: The Cairo Gambit
At Cairo – Three Days Later The scent of hot desert air mingled with the smog of the city. Cairo was alive, chaotic—a world of ancient history clashing with the madness of modernity. It was a place where secrets were buried in plain sight, and the truth was always harder to find beneath the surface. Darius stood on a crowded balcony overlooking the Nile. A city that had seen centuries of empires rise and fall now hummed with its own pulse, a city that never quite seemed to change, but always had a way of swallowing the unprepared. The team had arrived in Cairo under the cover of darkness. They were here to meet someone who could change everything. A defected high-level executive from Lucidity who had gone underground and disappeared into the shadows of the city. Jules had tracked him to a nondescript alley near the old city gates. No name, no face to the public, but he was someone who had once worked alo
Chapter 32: The Smoke Beneath the Ashes
At Geneva – One Week LaterThe sun hung low over Lake Geneva, casting a golden shimmer across the rippling surface. Darius Voss sat alone on a bench near the Quai du Mont-Blanc. Tourists bustled behind him, unaware that just a week ago, the world had flirted with extinction.He stared into the distance, a faint scar along his jaw—the only visible reminder of what he’d endured.A man who’d survived Hydra. Outlived the Eden Protocol. Killed gods in the dark.But Darius wasn’t naïve. He knew too well: monsters don’t die that easily. They evolve. They shift.And something still didn’t sit right.Cassia’s voice crackled in his earpiece. “Surveillance flagged something. British Intelligence intercepted a signal traced to the Eden site—originating from within Geneva.”“
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