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Chapter 60
As the punch hit his palm, Silas took a small step back. He let his arm move like a spring. He sucked the momentum of Kael’s punch into his own body. He moved his hips in a circle, guiding Kael’s giant fist past his own ear.Silas didn't throw a single punch. He just used The Catch. He pulled on Kael’s wrist and used his foot to gently tap Kael’s ankle at the same time.Kael’s own momentum, his massive weight and his violent force, became his enemy. Because Silas wasn't there to stop him, Kael flew forward. He couldn't stop.BOOM.Kael hit the far wall of the iron tank. He slammed into the rusted metal with a sound like a gong. He fell to the floor in a heap, his face red and his breath gone.The other Dregs stared in total shock. They hadn't even seen Silas move. One second, Kael was punching. Next, Kael was on the floor."What... what was that?" Ren whispered."That," Silas said, looking down at Kael, "is the difference between a tool and a master. Kael fought like a machine. He mov
Chapter 59
The breathing room was a place of ghosts and old air. It was a giant, round tank made of thick iron, hidden deep behind a wall of trash in the Sump. Years ago, it was a pressurized oxygen chamber. It was used to save workers who had been poisoned by the bad air of the mines. Now, it was just a rusted shell. It smelled of old pennies and wet dust.Silas Kapito stood in the center of the tank. The only light came from a single, flickering chemical flare on the floor. It cast a long, dancing shadow of Silas against the curved walls.Standing before him were the Ghosts. Ren, Kaelie, Jax, and Leo. But today, Ren had brought one more.His name was Kael.Kael was much bigger than the others. He was a "Hauler." His job was to carry heavy crates of scrap metal for twelve hours a day. His shoulders were wide, and his neck was as thick as a tree trunk. He had no machines in his body, but his muscles were hard like stone from years of work.Kael did not look happy to be in the Breathing Room. He
Chapter 58
"Leverage is the art of making the big things fall with a small touch," Silas said. He handed the pry-bar to Ren. "Vako owns the machines. He owns the guards. He owns the credits. But the Dregs... the Dregs are the ones who make the machines run. If the Dregs stop, the Academy stops."Silas leaned in close, his silver eyes boring into Ren’s soul."I am building a ghost cell," Silas said. "I need people who are invisible. People who the guards don't look at. I need you to find three others. Not the strong ones. Not the loud ones. Find the ones who have nothing left to lose. Find the ones who are ready to stop being trash and start being the rust that eats the iron."Ren gripped the pry-bar. His hands were still shaking, but his grip was tight. "What do I tell them?" Ren asked."Tell them that the God of War is in the Sump," Silas said. "And tell them that tomorrow, the machines will start to fail."Ren looked at the pry-bar, then back at Silas. He wiped the soot from his eyes. A small,
Chapter 57
The lights in the maintenance corridor of Sector D were not lights. They were dying eyes. They flickered with a sick, yellow glow, casting long shadows that looked like grasping hands.Silas Kapito stood in the deep shadow of a massive cooling pipe. He was so still that he looked like part of the wall. His Iron-Grey bones felt heavy and cold inside his skin. He did not breathe. He did not blink. He was watching.At the end of the hall, a group of four "Dregs" were huddled together. These were the unaugmented workers, people who had no machines in their bodies. They were the ones who cleaned the trash, fixed the pipes, and did the work that the Elite students were too proud to do. They wore grey jumpsuits that were soaked in grease and old sweat. Their faces were thin, their eyes hollow with the kind of hunger that never goes away.Standing over them was a Syndicate enforcer. He was a low-level thug named Gort. Gort was not smart, but he was big. His right arm had been replaced by a
Chapter 56
The massive machine collapsed. It didn't explode. It just fell apart, its legs folding like wet paper. It hit the floor in a heap of dead steel and silent wires.Silas stood over the wreck. He felt... incredible.The Prime-Yeast had given him the fuel for his muscles. The Marrow Tempering had given him the chassis. But this? This was the "High-Grade" energy. This was the "Pure-Kinetic" power that the Academy used to keep the Citadel in the sky.He looked at his arms. The blue-white light was pulsing under his skin. He felt light. He felt like he could jump to the top of the Spire in a single bound. He felt like he could punch through a mountain."Fuel," Silas said.He realized then the core struggle of the God of War. In his old life, he had to generate his own power through years of training and meditation. But in this broken, mechanical world, he didn't have to be a sun.He just had to be a predator.He looked at the dead Caretaker. He reached into the wreckage and pulled out its po
Chapter 55
The darkness of the Analog Archive was heavy, like a deep pool of black water. Silas Kapito sat in the center of the room. He was not moving. He was not even breathing. He was a stone. He was a ghost.His eyes were closed, but he was not sleeping. Inside his head, the world was a map of glowing lines. This was the "Haze." He could feel the power lines in the walls. He could feel the heat of the old, decaying books. He could feel the "Static Waste" of the building, a purple fog that drifted through the air like smoke.Thump.The sound was far away. It was a heavy, metallic sound. It didn't come from the hallway. It came from the ceiling.Silas did not open his eyes. He felt the vibration travel through the wooden shelves, down the floorboards, and into his iron-grey shins. It was a rhythmic sound. Thump. Clank. Thump. Clank."A Caretaker," Silas whispered.In the Academy, the "Caretakers" were not people. They were High-Level Security Automata. They were ten feet tall, made of heavy in
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