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Chapter 269
The sky above the ruined Citadel was completely black. The massive, golden warship of the First Architect blocked out the sun. The giant ship hovered silently, casting a terrible, heavy shadow over the earth. Down in the mud, Silas Kapito stood in front of the Great Legion. The newly Awakened Dregs held their scrap-metal pipes and sharp rocks. They looked at the giant golden God standing in the white light, and they felt real fear. The First Architect pointed his glowing white spear directly at the ruined Citadel. "The rogue assets will be deleted," the First Architect’s cold, alien voice echoed inside their minds. "Prepare for formatting." The First Architect swung his white spear. A massive wave of pure, destructive white energy shot across the battlefield. It did not hit Silas. It hit the side of the ruined Citadel, completely vaporizing a huge section of the white marble wall. "He is too powerful!" Ren yelled, covering his head as hot dust rained down. "We cannot fight a God
Chapter 268
The sharp, loud crack of Silas Kapito realigning Marcus’s spine echoed through Medical Ward 1. Marcus screamed into the white pillow, his body arching violently off the bed. Then, he went completely limp. The pillow fell from his mouth. He let out a long, shuddering breath. Silas slowly pulled his bloody, tungsten-dense fingers out of Marcus’s back. He grabbed a clean white cloth and pressed it gently over the wound to stop the bleeding. The clean, white room went absolutely, totally silent. Marcus lay face-down on the bed. His eyes were closed. His chest rose and fell with slow, easy breaths. Then, Marcus gasped. He opened his eyes. He blinked once. Twice. For the past three years, ever since the Chrome Council had installed the heavy silver cybernetic spine in his back, Marcus had lived in a nightmare. Every time he opened his eyes, he saw a jagged, "sickly red" energy clouding his vision. It was a constant "Haze" of pain. It made him angry. It made him cruel to the Dregs. Bu
Chapter 267
The clean, white room of Medical Ward 1 felt suffocating. The bright red countdown timer on the wall flashed faster and faster. “Eight minutes to global structural collapse.”Silas Kapito stood over the medical bed. His tungsten-dense fingers were pushed deep into the bloody, synthetic skin on Marcus’s back. He ignored the Rank 2 Elite's terrible, panicked screams. "Stop! Please stop!" Marcus cried, his tears mixing with the blood on the clean white sheets. Elara held Marcus’s shoulders down tightly. "Hold still, Marcus," she said softly, though her silver eyes darted nervously to the flashing red clock. Silas’s face was completely emotionless. His solid black eyes were fixed entirely on the task. This was his core struggle. He was hurting a boy to save him, using cold machine logic to perform an act of human mercy. Silas’s metal fingers found the hard, white bone of Marcus’s real spine. He felt exactly where the heavy silver bracket of the cybernetic machine was pinching the nerv
Chapter 266
“Before the final confrontation with Krov, Silas Kapito had to fix the broken boy.”Silas stood in the clean, white room of Medical Ward 1. The bright red countdown timer on the computer screen flashed ominously. ”Nine minutes to global structural collapse.”Marcus, the former Rank 2 Elite, lay face-down on the medical bed. His back was a terrible mess of raw red flesh and shiny silver metal. The cybernetic spine was failing. It was sending constant, jagged red "error-spikes" into his brain. "I cannot leave him like this," Silas said to Elara. "The machine is eating his nervous system.""Silas, we are running out of time!" Elara urged, pointing at the flashing red screen. "If we don't shut down the Core Reactor, the planet will crack.""I am going to fix him," Silas said flatly. Silas walked to the edge of the medical bed. He looked closely at Marcus’s back. He engaged his Kinetic Vision.He looked past the blood and the skin. He looked directly at the math of the broken machine. He
Chapter 265
The bright red countdown timer on the computer screen flashed ominously. [Nine minutes to global structural collapse.] Silas Kapito stood in the clean, white room of Medical Ward 1. He looked at the bloody, shiny silver cybernetic spine lying dead on the floor. Marcus, the former Rank 2 Elite, lay face-down on the medical bed. He was breathing easily for the first time in weeks, but he looked incredibly weak. The deep, surgical cuts on his back were still bleeding slowly. "I have to go back to The Engine," Silas told Elara. "Stay here and watch him." "Wait," Marcus gasped. He slowly pushed himself up on his elbows. He looked at Silas with tired, confused eyes. "Why did it hurt so much? The Chrome Council promised that the 'Titan-Spine' would make me perfect. They said my body was rejecting it because I was weak." Silas stopped in the doorway. He turned around and looked at the broken boy. This was Silas’s core struggle. He was a King, but he was also a teacher. He needed these
Chapter 264
The giant green vat glowed a blinding, destructive red. The voice of Corvus, the ancient traitor, laughed inside Silas Kapito’s mind. “If you turn me off... the planet stops spinning.” Silas stood frozen with his hand hovering over the main power switch. He did not know if Corvus was lying, but he could feel a massive, terrible vibration coming from deep beneath the floor. If he pulled the plug now, the Core Reactor might explode and crack the world in half. "Silas!" Elara called out. She dropped the kinetic shield covering Marcus and floated toward the glowing red tank. "The energy is destabilizing. The old mind is fighting you." "I cannot shut it down yet," Silas said softly. He pulled his hand away from the switch. The red glow inside the vat slowly calmed down, returning to the painful, bright orange pulse. Silas turned around. He looked at Marcus sitting on the floor. The broken boy was shivering in his dirty hospital gown. Silas had smoothed out the jagged red error-spikes
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