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Chapter 128
Silas did not move for a minute. Then, his chest began to rise and fall. He took a breath. It was a slow, rhythmic breath. Thump... thump... thump...Elara looked at her monitor. "Heart rate is 50 beats per minute. Steady. Blood pressure is... perfect."Silas sat up. He moved slowly, like a machine that had just been oiled. He looked at his hands. They felt like they belonged to someone else. He could feel the weight of his fingers, and he could feel the texture of the air against his skin, but there was no "noise."Usually, a human body is always sending small signals of discomfort. A slight itch, a cold breeze, the weight of clothes. But for Silas, those signals were gone. He felt nothing but his own will.Elara stood up. She reached into her bag and pulled out a small, sharp scalpel. "I have to test it," she said. Her voice was full of fear. "If the insulation is wrong, if there is a leak... you could go into shock later."Silas held out his left arm. "Do it," he said.Elara took h
Chapter 127
The "Iron Crucible" was a room that did not want anyone to stay. It was a small, round chamber hidden deep inside the cooling vents of Sector D. The walls were made of heavy iron plates that were always wet with a strange, oily sweat. It smelled like a hospital that had been built inside a junk yard, copper, sharp chemicals, and the dusty scent of old machines.Silas Kapito sat on a low metal stool in the center of the room. He was naked from the waist up. His skin was very pale, but it looked different now. It had a dull, grey shimmer, like the surface of a cloud. This was the "Iron-Grey" hue, the sign that his bones were no longer made of soft calcium. They were a lattice of silver and stone.His sister, Elara, stood behind him. She was holding a small, silver tray. On the tray were the tools of a nightmare: a micro-laser scalpel that glowed with a tiny blue light, and a specialized conductive probe that looked like a long, thin needle made of glass."Silas," Elara whispered. Her
Chapter 126
"They're here," Ren’s voice came over Silas’s radio. "Silas! The drones are at the elevator! We're holding the stairs, but we can't stop the flyers!"Silas let go of Elara’s hand. He turned toward the door, reaching for the Black-Iron sword leaning against the wall."Wait," Elara said.Silas stopped.Elara was standing by the high-frequency surgical table. She was holding a pair of neural-needles, long, thin spikes of silver that hummed with a dangerous energy. Her face was set in a mask of grim determination. She looked like she had just aged ten years in ten seconds."I won't let them take you," she said. her voice was no longer shaking. "If you're going to be a monster, then you're going to be my monster."She pointed to the table. "Lie down. I can't do the full cauterization in this light, but I can strip the primary pain-gates in your spine. It will take five minutes."Silas looked at her. He saw the "core struggle" in her eyes, the battle between her oath as a nurse and her love
Chapter 125
The rain in the Warren did not come from the clouds. It came from the pipes.High above the slums, the floating palaces of the nobles were being washed. The servants used "Purification Water" to keep the white marble of the High City shining like a diamond. That water, now gray and oily with the dirt of the rich, fell down. It fell through the iron grates. It fell past the ventilation shafts. It fell onto the heads of the people who lived in the mud.It was a "Dross-rain." It smelled like vinegar and old metal. It turned the dirt streets into a thick, black soup that never dried.Mara sat in the doorway of her shack. She was a Null. She had no magic. Her skin was the color of old paper, and her hands were thin like bird claws. She was holding her son, Toby. Toby was six years old. He was also a Null. He was small for his age, and his eyes were too big for his face. He was shivering, even though Mara had wrapped him in their only blanket."Is it time, Mama?" Toby whispered. His voice
Chapter 124
Silas’s body arched. His heels dug into the concrete. His hands locked onto the wires, his iron-grey fingers welding themselves to the copper.BZZZZZZZT. The blue electricity didn't just stay on his skin. It followed the path of his nerves. It traveled from his fingertips, up his arms, and into the "Logic-Core" in his neck.Silas felt his brain fighting back. The "Neuro-Sync Alpha" drug tried to process the information, but the signal was too big. It was a flood of pure, raw energy.Inside his mind, Silas saw images. He saw Kian as a baby. He felt the warmth of his mother’s hug. He felt the sting of a scraped knee. He felt the cold fear of the locker room.“Burn it,” Silas commanded.The electricity hit the memories. The warmth of the hug vanished. The sting of the knee died. The fear in the locker room turned into a dull, grey fog. He was deleting his own humanity.One by one, the "Pain-Gates" in his spine were being cauterized. The nerves were being "stripped" of their ability to se
Chapter 123
The wind on the rooftop of the Valhalla Academy did not blow; it screamed. It was a cold, sharp wind that carried the smell of the coming storm. Far below, the clouds were a thick blanket of grey and purple, hiding the Sump from the eyes of the High Command. Silas Kapito stood at the very edge of the roof. His toes were inches away from a five-mile drop. He did not look down. He was looking out.Above him, the "Inquisitor Drones" were dancing. They were beautiful and terrifying. Unlike the heavy, clunky Sentry-Bots of the lower levels, these machines were slender. They were made of a dark, matte-black alloy that seemed to drink the light. They had six long, needle-like legs that moved with the grace of a spider walking on water. Instead of loud engines, they had silent "Aether-Drives" that made a low, hypnotic hum. Their red sensor eyes pulsed in the dark. Blink. Blink. Blink.They were searching. They were hunting for a specific heat signature. They were looking for the "Iron-Gre
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