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Blood in the obelisk
Chapter 30 Jaxon Lin didn’t blink as the elevator doors closed behind him. He stood at the edge of something deeper than any battlefield he’d ever walked into — and this time, it was personal. The Obelisk’s lower level wasn’t a floor. It was a tomb. The air turned metallic the moment he stepped out of the shaft. Fluorescent lights flickered above, casting a sickly white glow across concrete walls laced with biohazard markings. Sirens wailed somewhere above, muffled by layers of reinforced steel. But down here… the silence felt alive. Behind him, Mira adjusted her grip on the rifle. Her hands were steady, but her breathing wasn’t. “You sure your wife’s sister is down here?” Jaxon didn’t answer. He stared at the row of containment pods lining the chamber wall — human-shaped silhouettes frozen inside them. He moved forward. Not fast. Not slow. Just enough that his b
The Fire That Doesn't Burn
CHAPTER 29 SAFEHOUSE, 4:16 A.M. — Location Redacted It was still dark when Ava opened her eyes. Not the kind of dark that made you reach for the light switch, but the kind that sank into your bones. Cold. Sticky. Familiar. She didn’t know where she was at first. The ceiling above her was low, wood-paneled, uneven—like a bunker or… a storage cabin? She tried to sit up. Failed. Pain laced her body like she'd been hit by a train. Then came the voice. Low. Deep. Familiar in the worst way. “Back where we started, aren’t we?” Her pulse spiked. She looked toward the door. No one. “You didn’t think I’d go quietly, did you?” She gritted her teeth. “I’m awake now,” she said out loud. “You don’t control me anymore.” “Don’t I?”
The Last Exist Burns
CHAPTER 28 OBELISK CORE – 00:56 The red digits of the countdown pulsed like a heartbeat over the chamber wall. The walls around them shivered with each second lost. Somewhere deep in the structure, a bass-toned groan echoed—metal under pressure. Jaxon clutched Ava tightly to his chest as Mira pulled the access panel open. “This leads to the lift shaft,” she said. “It’s vertical. Sealed off on grid level three, but if we climb fast—” “We don’t have a choice,” Jaxon said, stepping past her. Ava was still unconscious, but breathing. Her skin was warmer now. The glow that had once consumed her was gone. Whatever had snapped Rael’s hold—it left her drained. Mira slung her rifle over her shoulder. Her fingers trembled as she reloaded with one hand. “You good?” Jaxon asked as he crouched to lower Ava gently into Mira’s arms while he rigged a climbing line
The Girl Who Remained
CHAPTER 27 OBELISK CORE – 2:58 A.M. The floor vibrated beneath Jaxon’s boots. It wasn’t an earthquake. It was her. Ava. She stood twenty feet away, barefoot on steel, arms relaxed at her sides. Her golden irises flared like solar flares trapped in human eyes. But it wasn’t the light that made him pause—it was the absence of her. She looked like Ava. But she wasn’t standing like her. Wasn’t breathing like her. Her head tilted too precisely. Her eyes didn’t blink. Jaxon gripped The Warden, the pulseblade fused to his forearm. It hummed like it knew what it was meant to cut. “Ava,” he said quietly. “I know you’re still in there.” No answer. Her hand rose slowly. Two fingers flexed. Jaxon’s body seized. Like a vise clamped onto his chest, something inside him pulled tight. His muscles convulsed—not from pain
Infiltration protocol
CHAPTER 26 [JAXON] Obelisk Perimeter – 2:17 A.M. Wind screamed through the skeletal ironwork of the decommissioned crane where Jaxon crouched. Every breath he drew burned with rust and ocean salt. From this height, the harbor looked like a choked throat of shadows—water black, fog rolling thick between the docked ships and Syndicate patrol drones. The Obelisk stood at the center, docked like a predator at rest. Monolithic, obsidian-black, covered in ripple armor and gleaming power nodes. It didn’t just tower. It waited. “This is madness,” Mira said behind him. Her voice was low, gruff. “You realize that, right?” Jaxon adjusted the strap of the tactical bag across his back. “That’s not new.” She huffed and checked the magazine of her rifle, her fingers moving faster than her expression did. She wasn’t really angry. She was scared. Jaxon didn’t blame
The Cost of Power
Chapter 24 Late Night, Zhenhai City – Somewhere in the Underground The lights flickered in the safehouse’s infirmary. Not just flickered—trembled, like they were afraid of something. Mira wiped the blood from her brow with a shaking hand. “I think she just fried the backup generator,” she muttered. Ava lay unconscious on the med-table, monitors buzzing wildly beside her. Gold veins still pulsed faintly beneath her skin. Whatever had exploded from her earlier… it wasn’t over. Lillian sat beside her sister, fingers twitching over Ava’s hand like she couldn’t quite make herself touch her. “Her skin’s cold,” she said softly. “Like… ice and static.” “She’s not stable,” Mira said. “That burst? It wasn’t just energy. It was a fail-safe. Something inside her is unlocking. And whatever
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