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Chapter 116
The sounds of the Academy were changing. Usually, the hallways were filled with the rhythmic clack-clack of marching boots and the cold, polite voices of teachers. But today, the Academy sounded like a cage full of hungry animals.Far down in the mess hall, the junior enforcers were fighting. They were Vako’s "little wolves." Now that Vako was a broken man with a scrambled brain, the wolves were biting each other. They wanted the keys. They wanted the credits. They wanted to be the new boss."Listen to them," Ren whispered.He was standing behind a heavy metal pillar in the hallway leading to Vako’s private wing. He held a rusted wrench in his hand. His knuckles were white. His eyes moved back and forth, watching for any guard who might come around the corner.Silas Kapito stood next to him. Silas did not have a wrench. He did not have a gun. He stood with his arms crossed over his bare chest. His skin had a strange, grey color. Under the flickering lights, the silver veins in his ne
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Ren blinked, the excitement fading from his face. "But... we'd be good leaders, Silas. Not like them.""There is no such thing as a good leader in a bad system," Silas said. He let go of Ren’s wrist and looked back down through the grate at the looters below. "If I take Vako’s place, I am still part of the Academy. I am still a puppet for the Architects, even if I have a bigger room. My mission is not to rule this school. My mission is to dismantle it."Ren looked down at the chaos. He saw the blood on the marble. He saw the greed in the eyes of the Vultures. He realized then that Silas was playing a game that was much bigger than credits and lockers. Silas was fighting for the very soul of humanity."I'm sorry," Ren whispered. "I just... I'm tired of being at the bottom.""You are not at the bottom anymore, Ren," Silas said, placing a heavy hand on the boy’s shoulder. "You are a Shadow Architect. You are the one who is going to build the new world on the ruins of the old one. But fir
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The medical drones arrived with a high-pitched, clinical whine. They were sleek, white spheres with mechanical arms that moved like the legs of a spider. They did not care about the dust. They did not care about the history of the man lying on the floor. To the machines, Instructor Vako was simply "Subject 01-V," a biological unit with a critical malfunction.Silas Kapito stood in the shadows of a broken concrete pillar, his chest still heaving from the effort of the 144 Hertz hum. He watched as the drones hovered over the wreckage of the Titan-Exo.Vako was a pathetic sight. He had been thrown clear of the cockpit when the metal plates crystallized and shattered. He lay on the cold, grey floor, his expensive white instructor’s uniform torn and stained with blue hydraulic fluid. But it was his face that told the true story of the "Echo-Strike."His jaw was slack. His eyes were wide open, but they were not looking at anything. They were glazed over, the pupils different sizes. Every
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Silas raised his hand. He didn't make a fist. He just extended one finger. He tapped the cracked glass of the cockpit. He didn't use strength. He used the leftover vibration still humming in his bones.The entire glass dome of the cockpit didn't just break. It shattered. It turned into a million tiny diamonds that rained down on the unconscious Vako.The pilot was exposed. The machine was dead.Silas turned his back on the wreckage. He walked toward the massive steel doors at the end of the range. He didn't look at the cameras. He didn't look at the broken weapon racks. He pushed the doors open.The hallway was full of Dregs. They had been listening to the "Scream." They had felt the earthquake. They were standing in a wide circle, their faces pale with wonder.Ren was at the front. He looked at Silas, then he looked past him at the smoking, yellow ruin of the Titan-Exo."Silas..." Ren whispered."The master is dismantled," Silas said.He kept walking. The Dregs parted for him like a
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The Heavy Weapons Range was no longer a room. It was a giant, metal throat, and it was screaming.Silas Kapito did not let go. His right hand was pressed flat against the yellow shin-plate of the Titan-Exo. His feet were buried deep in the cracked concrete. His "Iron-Grey" bones were vibrating so fast they were invisible. He was a tuning fork made of silver marrow and ancient will.BONGGGGGGG. The sound was not a noise. It was a physical force. It was a wall of energy that pushed the air out of the room.Nearby, a heavy weapon rack filled with practice rifles began to shake. The metal of the rack couldn't handle the note Silas was singing.PING. SNAP. CRASH. The rack didn't just fall. It disintegrated. The bolts popped out like corn in a hot pan. The steel shelves twisted into curls of ribbon. The rifles shattered into a thousand black plastic shards.Silas felt the vibration move through his own chest. It was the Internal Storm. His heart was a piece of meat trapped in a cage of vi
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For a second, nothing happened.Silas’s small hand looked pathetic against the massive yellow leg of the mech. Vako laughed inside the cockpit, thinking he had won. But then, the sound arrived.BONGGGGGGG. It was the sound of a giant bell being hit by a hammer made of starlight.The vibration from Silas’s iron-grey bones flowed into the Titan-Exo. Because the frequencies matched perfectly, the energy did not bounce off. It was absorbed.The mech began to shake.It wasn't a normal shake. It was a violent, rhythmic shivering. The yellow paint on the mech began to flake off like dead skin. The glass in the sight-tubes shattered. The blue hydraulic fluid sprayed out in every direction."What?! What is happening?!" Vako screamed. He was being tossed around inside the cockpit like a coin in a tin box. "The controls! They’re dead!"Silas did not let go.The vibration was traveling back into him, too. He felt his teeth rattling in his skull. He felt his eyes vibrating in their sockets. A shar
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