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Chapter 101: The Bronze Tax
I stared at the blue light. Layer 5.I didn't think about it. I didn't look at Nyxra or Zeryth to ask for their opinion. I just hit the prompt.The throne room didn't fade, it snapped. One second I was sitting on the seat of a god, and the next, my stomach did a violent flip. The air went from the warm, golden hum of the Source to a cold, metallic stink. It smelled like rot.We hit a floor made of rusted grating, hard."Ugh, my head," Zeryth groaned. He scrambled up, his heavy pipe already in his hand. Nyxra stayed low, her eyes darting around. "Vaxien? Where are we?""Not home," I said. I stood up and felt something heavy in my chest. Not power, weight. I tried to flex my Synthesis, but it felt like trying to breathe through a straw.I looked up. We were on a dock. It was a massive, floating slab of junk suspended in a gray void that went on forever. There were no stars here. Just fog and men.Twenty of them, maybe more. They wore thick, tactical vests and helmets with glowing red vi
Chapter 100: The True Reboot
The room didn't turn white and it ceased to exist as anything recognizable. The Investor’s face twisted and the golden mask of his features melted into a mask of pure, unadulterated panic. He saw the command line in my eyes and he knew the System Erase wasn't a bluff. It was a funeral."You think you can just delete the foundation of reality?" The Investor screamed and he threw his arms wide. "I am the light! I am the force that holds the stars in their orbits! If I go down and the galaxy goes dark!""Then we'll learn to see in the dark," I said and I stepped forward. The Investor roared and the golden energy around him surged.He didn't fire a beam or a bolt. He unleashed the raw, unfiltered power of a hundred supernovas. The heat was enough to vaporize entire solar systems and the light was a physical hammer that should have turned my alloy body to steam. The bridge behind me began to liquefy and I heard the metal groan as it turned to slag."Vaxien!" Nyxra yelled and she threw h
Chapter 99: The Throne of Dying Stars
The wreckage of the lead ring was still screaming through the atmosphere of the core as we breached the final layer of the sanctum. I didn't feel the heat or the friction. I only felt the cold and steady pull of the man who thought he owned my soul. The air inside the sanctum was thin and sweet and it tasted like a lie. "Vaxien, look at the floor," Nyxra whispered and she gripped her pulse pistol so hard her knuckles were white. "It’s not a floor. It’s a map."I looked down and my alloy boots were standing on a sea of stars. It was a massive and holographic chessboard that stretched across the entire chamber. Each piece wasn't a carving, it was a miniature sun or a cluster of planets. They hummed with a sick and captive energy and they moved with a slow and silent grace."Is that a joke?" Zeryth growled and he gripped his heavy pipe and he spat on the shimmering stars. "He’s playing a game while we’re burning his house down?""It is not a game," a voice boomed and it came from the
Chapter 98: The Gates of the Investor
The last golden dreadnought of the blockade flickered and died as I pulled my consciousness back into the station. The bridge was thick with the smell of burnt circuitry and hot metal and I felt the hum of the Genesis-Forge cooling in my alloy veins. We had broken them."Admiral, we are through," Nyxra said and she wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead. "The blockade is scattered, we have a clear window to the Galactic Core.""Punch it," I said. The fleet didn't wait. A thousand ships surged forward and the space around us warped and stretched as we jumped. We didn't travel for hours or days. We tore through the fabric of the galaxy until the stars became a solid wall of white light. Then we hit the center."Vaxien, look at that," Zeryth’s voice crackled over the comms and I could hear the awe in his tone. "I’ve seen a lot of corporate greed, but this is something else."I looked out the main viewscreen and I felt a cold knot tighten in my stomach. The Galactic Core wasn't just a
Chapter 97: The War of Concepts
The bridge of the station didn't shake with the impact of the explosion and it didn't groan under the weight of metal because there was no metal left to groan. I stood at the center of the command deck and watched the sensor feed as the gold-plated warships of the Investor fired a second volley of that white light. I didn't see fire or debris and I saw a void where our protection used to be.[Concept Deleted: Shields][Status: Nullified]"Vaxien, the monitors are going dark!" Nyxra screamed and she slammed her hands onto the console. "It's not a hardware failure and the system just forgot what a shield is! I'm looking at the code and the entire defensive subroutine is gone! It’s like it never existed!""The hull is bare," Zeryth’s voice crackled over the comms and I could hear the sound of heavy breathing and boots hitting metal. "Vaxien, the Vanguard is naked out here! My engineers are losing their minds and they are staring at the shield generators and they don't even know what t
Chapter 96: The Admiral of Static
The roar of ten thousand engines filled the void and the terminal beneath my palm groaned with the weight of the incoming data. I looked at the wall of iron and light that now surrounded the station and I felt the collective heartbeat of every soul on those ships. They were a scream of defiance and I was the one holding the megaphone.[Fleet Synchronization: 100%][Command Link: Established][Title Assigned: Admiral of the Static Fleet]"Admiral," Nyxra whispered and she stood beside me as the blue light of the screens washed over her face. "They are all waiting for you. The whole sky is looking at this room. What is the first order?""The order is to move," I said and I turned away from the glass. "We don't wait for the Investor to find us. We take the fight to his front door."Zeryth stepped forward and he gripped the hilt of his discarded metal pipe and he looked me dead in the eye. "If we are doing this, Vaxien, I am not sitting in the back. I didn't crawl through the guts of th
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