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Chapter 194: Queen of a Ruined Board
"I stood exactly where you are standing right now, a long time ago," Seraphina said, her shoes clicking on the walkway. "This world doesn't care about heroes."I couldn't answer because my teeth were clamped together in pain, my arms still holding the heavy wires while Zeryth and the others climbed up behind me. The grinding pressure from the cables dragged through my palms, threatens to tear my fingers away from the braided strands."Do not look at her, Vaxien!" Zeryth yelled, dragging himself over the fractured edge of the floor plate. "Keep your focus on the stabilization network! If you release those anchors now, the entire platform will drop into the lower cloud layers!""He cannot maintain the connection much longer!" Nyxra cried, scrambling over the ruined masonry and rushing toward my position. "His status bars are dropping back into the critical red zone!"Nyxra immediately knelt by my side, using her new silver light to help heal my armor. The soothing energy flowed over my
Chapter 193: The Spine of Layer Five
The building split right down the middle, showing the blue sky through the floor as the bottom half began to slide away. The sudden rupture produced a deafening metallic screech that buckled the white carpet and tore the foundation completely apart under my feet. The architectural alignment vanished, throwing the entire perimeter into a steep descent as gravity fought to claim the detached sections.Through the gap, Vaxien could see Zeryth and the other rebels on the roof below, reaching their hands up to try and climb across before the opening became too wide. The lower platform was descending at an accelerating angle, pulling our only path of escape out of alignment."Vaxien, the structural anchor lines are shearing!" Zeryth yelled from the roof below, his fingers digging into the edge of a crumbling masonry wall as he tried to stabilize himself. "The distance is widening too fast! We cannot make the leap across the division!""Do not let go of the perimeter rails!" I shouted back,
Chapter 192: The Anatomy of a Trap
The glass blade went right through Vaxien's side with a sharp snap, its clear tip coming out covered in his bright silver blood. The sheer force of the impact jarred my teeth, tearing through my side and sending a burst of raw agony across my remaining neural links.[Damage Taken: Health points reduced by 30%.]"I told you that your guard was entirely dropped, you absolute fool!" The glass figure yelled, his face turning into a clear blur right beside my cheek as he leaned in close to strike again, thinking he had won. "Your pathetic strategy has only ensured your immediate execution!""That was your final mistake, parasite," I wheezed, my teeth covered in copper fluid as I forced my fingers to move through the freezing paralysis of the poison.My hand clamped down on the enemy's wrist, squeezing until the clear glass began to crack under my mechanical gauntlet. The assassin gasped, trying to pull his transparent arm back into the safety of the refractive light, but my grip remained
Chapter 191: Blood and Transparency
There was no sound or flash of light— just a sudden cold feeling at the back of my neck, followed by the taste of copper in my mouth. A sharp point went deep into my neural port, fracturing my core defense parameters completely before I could even pivot around to face the source of the unexpected attack. The pristine atmosphere of the higher council chambers vanished, replaced by the internal alarms of my failing interface as the foreign substance corrupted my core systems rapidly."You truly believed you won this sector, did you?" A clear voice hissed right beside my ear. "The council programs were a simple distraction to draw your guard down, Vaxien, and you fell for it completely like a mindless amateur who cannot fight.""Show your face, you miserable coward!" I snarled, swinging my blade. "Step out and face me directly instead of hiding in the dark like a broken script that is far too afraid to stand before a real warrior!""Why would I reveal my presence to an inferior asset w
Chapter 190: The Last Adjournment
The high council room smelled like clean paper and wet ink, which was very strange compared to the burning elevator shaft Vaxien had just climbed. The air was cool and perfectly conditioned, carrying none of the ash or screaming friction from the vertical tunnel below. Before I could fully adjust my balance on the roof of the rising platform, the ten-ton vehicle tore through the upper structural boundaries. The elevator car crashed through the middle of the room's round wooden table, throwing splinters everywhere.[Area Discovered: Higher Council Chambers.]I stepped out of the wreckage, my boots leaving dark marks on the white carpet. The debris rattled against the polished floor, but the figures seated at the far end of the long room did not even flinch. Five old council members sat in high chairs along the wall, tapping on glowing blue screens to finish deleting the world."Step away from those terminals," I commanded, drawing my sword as the golden energy from my chest plate il
Chapter 189: The Railgun Elevator
The shadow of the falling elevator grew so fast the room became completely dark in seconds, and the wind from its fall cracked the stone pillars. The sheer pressure of the descending mass forced the air right out of our lungs, warping the white marble columns until deep fissures raced down their pristine surfaces."Get back!" Draven shouted, diving behind a large stone block near the eastern edge of the hall. "Vaxien, you are directly in the trajectory! Move!""There is no path to clear!" Phineas yelled from across the room, wrapping his arms over his head as bits of the ceiling started peeling away. "The perimeter is entirely cut off by the collapse!""He is going to get flattened!" Nyxra cried out, her emerald healing circles flaring in a desperate attempt to reach me. "Vaxien, drop to the floor!"I did not run. I stood directly under the dark hole in the ceiling, bending my knees and reaching my arms up high. The golden light from my newly supercharged armor flared against the des
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