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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
Chapter 95: The Fleet of the Free
The lizard mercenary was still shaking on the floor, his four arms tucked tight against his chest as he stared at the spot where his leader had been thrown. The air in the room was heavy with the smell of scorched metal."You really think you can fly this pile of scrap to the center of the galaxy?" Zeryth asked. He leaned against a cracked support beam and wiped a smear of blood from his mouth with the back of his hand."The Investor has a private army, Vaxien. He has fleets and he has things that make that reality-cutter we just fought look like a toy. We are three people in a dead station.""He is right," Nyxra said. She walked to the edge of the platform and looked out through the holes in the ceiling. "We cannot fight a war by ourselves. Even with what you can do now, Vaxien, they have numbers we cannot even count.""I know," I said. I looked at my hands, feeling the heat of the Genesis-Forge still humming in my palms. "That is why I am not going alone.""Then who is going with
Chapter 94: A Sovereign's Wrath
The lead mercenary gripped his bone-handled blade until his knuckles turned white. His cybernetic eye was spinning so fast it made a high-pitched whine and he looked at the space where the reality wound had been as if he couldn't believe it was gone. He looked at me and then he looked at his blade and then he looked at me again."You think you’re a god now?" He spat. He stepped forward and he swung the shimmering blade in a wide and desperate arc. "You’re still just an asset! You’re still just a piece of meat with a serial number!"I didn't dodge or flinch, I just looked at the blade. I looked at the way the light was structured and the way the cosmic energy held its form. I reached out with a single thought and I stripped the intent from the metal.[Structural Integrity: Overwritten][Molecular Bonding: Terminated]The blade turned to gray dust and the fine powder drifted through the air and coated the mercenary’s boots. He stared at his empty hand and his jaw dropped and he looked
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