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Chapter 255
The countdown clock on the wall flashed bright red. Fifty seconds. Silas Kapito stood frozen in the center of the beautiful Aether Lounge. He stared at the heavy metal cage holding little Mara. Her tears left clean tracks in the dirt on her face. If Silas moved toward the cage, the launch engines would suck the life out of Mara’s bones to fuel their escape. If he moved toward Lady Sera, the same thing would happen. He was a God of War trapped by his own power. The top-tier students of the Academy sat in their floating silk chairs. They watched Silas with cruel, amused smiles. They drank their glowing pink wine as the clock ticked down. A boy named Tyrus floated his chair closer to Silas. Tyrus wore heavy, clear glass armor over his chest. Inside the glass, neon-blue fluids pumped rapidly, powering his artificial heart. "Look at him, Sera," Tyrus laughed, pointing a perfectly clean finger at Silas’s chest. "He is so boring." Tyrus floated a circle around Silas. He looked at Silas
Chapter 254
Silas Kapito walked away from his ruined suite. He walked down the bright, quiet hallways of the Aegis Wing. He was looking for The Engine room, but the Citadel was a maze of lies. He stopped in front of a pair of giant, pure crystal doors. The words Aether Lounge were carved into the glass in gold letters. Silas pushed the heavy crystal doors open. His broken, heavy boots stepped onto the soft white floor. He expected to find soldiers. He expected to find fear. The giant floating city had crashed. The sky was falling. The world outside was ending. But inside the Aether Lounge, there was no panic. There was only soft, sweet music playing from hidden speakers. The air smelled like fresh rain and expensive fruit. Silas stood in the doorway. He was covered in dry silver blood, dark oil, and green acid burns. He looked like a monster of war. Sitting inside the beautiful room were the top-tier students of the Academy. These were the children of the absolute highest Chrome Council mem
Chapter 253
The heavy white doors of the suite hissed open. The Golden-Eyed Clone stood in the doorway, holding his massive Black-Iron sword. But Silas Kapito was not standing in the room to greet him. The clone stepped inside cautiously. His golden eyes scanned the luxurious "Suite of Glass." The room was perfectly quiet. The soft white carpet showed no muddy footprints. The smart-fiber bed was empty. The clone frowned. "Where are you, ghost?" he whispered. He walked further into the room. He saw the "Bio-Med Pod" in the center of the floor. The heavy glass lid was open. The expensive, neon-blue healing liquid was gone. The metal control panel was smashed to pieces. Instead of warm, blue medicine, the glass tank was filled to the brim with near-freezing, raw industrial water. A thick, broken pipe poured the icy water directly into the pod. The clone looked into the freezing tank. Silas Kapito was sitting perfectly still at the very bottom of the icy water. He was completely submerged. Hi
Chapter 252
Silas Kapito stared at the neon-blue liquid bubbling in the Bio-Med Pod. The sweet computer voice told him to soak and heal his shattered left arm. The pain in his body was blinding. The dark metal lattice under his pale skin burned with exhaustion. But Silas did not step into the warm, glowing tank. "I see the poison," Silas whispered to the empty, white room. His "Kinetic Vision" showed him the truth. Hidden inside the healing nanobots were heavy traces of "Numb." The Chrome Council had laced the medicine with a powerful sedative. If he got into the tank, the drug would put his Kapito-Gene back to sleep. He would heal, but he would wake up as a weak, baseline human. Silas knew he had a choice. He could fight the Golden-Eyed Clone with a broken arm and likely die. Or he could find a third way. He stepped up to the edge of the Bio-Med Pod. He did not get in. He reached out with his good right hand and grabbed the heavy metal control panel on the side of the tank. "Warning. Unauth
Chapter 251
The small metal bird lay dead on the floor. The blue hologram of Anya was gone, but her terrible words echoed in Silas’s mind. “Elara betrayed you. She let them put you in the green vat.” Silas Kapito sat on the cold floor near the open window. The freezing wind blew into the perfect, white room. His human heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand heavy pieces. For three hundred years, he had believed Elara was pure. He had fought the entire world to save her. Now, he knew she was the one who had sold his soul to the Chrome Council. This was the deepest, darkest core struggle Silas had ever faced. A machine does not feel betrayal. A machine only recalculates the math. But Silas was a man. The betrayal hurt worse than the Chimera’s claws. It hurt worse than the burning plasma fire. He closed his solid black eyes. He needed to be strong. He needed to fight Elara when she arrived. But his body was completely ruined. His left arm was a shattered mess of broken tungsten bones a
Chapter 250
The boy with the golden eyes held the heavy Black-Iron sword. He looked exactly like Silas. He was a perfect copy, a "newer model" built by the Chrome Council to protect their heaven. But Silas did not get to fight him yet. "Wait, little brother," Battery Two said softly from her golden throne. She raised her pale hand. "There will be time for blood later. The Ash-King must rest first." Battery Two pressed a button on the arm of her throne. Before Silas could step forward, a heavy, transparent wall slammed down from the ceiling. It was made of thick, reinforced energy-glass. It trapped Silas completely inside a small section of the Grand Hall. Silas raised his good right fist to punch the glass. "If you break the glass, Silas, I push the button," Battery Two warned sweetly, holding up the black detonator. "And your friends in the mud turn to ash." Silas slowly lowered his fist. His core struggle burned inside him. He was trapped by his own love for his people. He had to be pati
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