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Chapter 197
The dull luster of the oppressed was completely gone. The mineral-gel had cleared their eyes. Now, their eyes were bright, sharp, and fierce. They looked like young wolves. They looked like a pack of silent, hungry predators. "You are Awakened," Silas whispered. "I feel... perfect," Leo said, looking at his twin brother, Jax. Jax nodded, his sharp eyes shining in the dark. "Now that your bodies are awake, we begin the lesson," Silas said. He stood up. "I am going to teach you how to be ghosts. I will teach you two skills. 'Acoustic Shielding' and 'Sync-Breathing.'"Silas pointed to the concrete floor. "The Gilded students have heavy boots and loud armor," Silas explained. "They stomp. They make noise. Noise creates vibration, and vibration is a target. You must learn Acoustic Shielding."Silas demonstrated. He took a step. Even though he weighed five hundred pounds, his heavy boot made absolutely no sound. "Do not walk on your heels," Silas instructed. "Step on the outside edge of
Chapter 196
Deep below the ruined Ash-Lands, there was a place even the sun forgot. It was the sub-basement of the Purge Sector. Hundreds of years ago, this was a massive parking garage for heavy tanks. Now, it was just a giant, dark, empty cave made of cracked concrete. Water dripped from the ceiling. Plop. Plop. Plop. The air smelled like wet stone and old rust. In the center of the dark room, five young people sat in a circle. There was Ren, the brave boy who had stood by Silas from the beginning. There was Kael, the big, strong Hauler. There were Jax and Leo, the twin brothers who moved like shadows. And there was Mara, a fast, quiet girl with fierce eyes. They were Dregs. They had survived the terrible Drop Zone. They had survived the Chimera. They were covered in dirt, and they wore old, torn clothes. But they did not look scared anymore. They were waiting for their King. From the dark tunnel, a heavy sound echoed. CLACK. CLACK. CLACK. The five Dregs stood up. They stood completely
Chapter 195
Silas looked at the black card. He did not touch it. "An Irregular means you are officially removed from the normal Academy curriculum," Krov explained. "You do not have to go to class. You do not have to answer to roll call. You do not have to sleep in the dormitories. You have no curfew. No guard is allowed to touch you. No teacher is allowed to speak to you."Krov smiled his rough, scarred smile. "It gives you total freedom. It is a License to Haunt."Silas narrowed his eyes. The machine part of his brain began to run calculations. This was a trap. People like Krov did not give gifts for free. "Why are you giving me this?" Silas asked. "I am the Ash-King. I just killed your best students. I broke your monster. I embarrassed your city on global television. You should be trying to kill me.""If I tried to kill you right now, one of us would die," Krov said honestly. "And I am not ready to die today."Krov stood up from the table. He walked to the edge of the high balcony and looked
Chapter 194
The heavy metal elevator dropped like a stone in water. Silas Kapito stood inside the dark box. The red emergency lights flashed over his face. He looked at his own reflection in the metal doors. He looked like a dead boy. His left arm was a ruined mess of torn white skin and dark tungsten bones. His chest was covered in dry silver blood. He was falling toward the darkest basement of the Citadel. He was falling toward the hardest choice of his entire life. “If I pull the cables, my sister dies,” Silas thought. “If I don't pull the cables, the reactor explodes, and my friends in the Ash-Lands die.” This was the core struggle of his human heart. The machine part of his brain told him the math was simple. One life against thousands of lives. The logical choice was to sacrifice Elara. But Silas did not want to be a machine. He squeezed his good right hand into a fist. He promised himself he would find a third way. He would fight the math. He would break the reactor with his bare hand
Chapter 193
"Please," Cassius sobbed. "Just kill me quickly. We tortured you. We treated you like dirt. I know you hate us. Just get it over with."Silas looked down at the boy in the heavy, ugly metal. This was the core struggle of Silas’s life. For years, he had hated these elites. He had dreamed of the day he could make them pay for hitting him, for starving him, for taking his sister. A normal boy would take his revenge right now. A normal boy would burn them all. But Silas’s "Overclocked" mind had learned a very deep truth. Hate was a human feeling. Hate meant that you cared. Silas did not care anymore. Silas looked at Cassius. His solid black eyes were completely empty. There was no anger in them. There was no joy. There was nothing at all. "I do not hate you, Cassius," Silas said. His voice was a flat, cold vibration. Cassius looked up, confused. "But... why? Why aren't you killing us? We are your enemies."Silas slowly shook his head. "You only kill a threat," Silas explained. He po
Chapter 192
The dark corner of Room 404 was no longer a safe place for shadows. Silas Kapito held the lead assassin by the throat. The man in the black stealth suit kicked his legs, trying to breathe. His three partners raised their poisoned blades. They moved fast, but they were only human. Silas was a "Refined Human" with a mind that ran at 0.08 seconds. Silas did not drop the first assassin. He used him as a shield. He swung the man’s body into the other three. CRASH. The assassins fell into a tangled pile of black suits and sharp knives. Before they could stand up, Silas stepped forward. He did not use a weapon. He used his heavy, tungsten-dense boots. He kicked the weapons out of their hands. Clang. Clang. He hit them in the chest, just hard enough to knock the air out of their lungs and put them to sleep. In five seconds, the fight was over. Silas dropped the lead assassin on the floor. He stepped over the sleeping bodies. The "Deep Recovery" had worked. His chest was closed. The bro
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