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Chapter Twenty Nine: Are We Playing Or Not?
Michael stood on the rooftop across from the glowing front of The Mirage Vault, a sprawling, opulent casino in the heart of the Southern Sector. From this vantage point, he observed the building’s rhythmic pulse, its neon lights washing over imported marble columns and rotating billboards advertising excess, wealth, and indulgence. The place practically bled arrogance.He adjusted his coat and tugged lightly on the suit's lapels. Then, with practiced ease, he activated his Presence Veil. A shimmer of nullification rolled over him, and the weight of awareness faded from the air.In the next moment, he vanished from the rooftop.With his heightened agility, Michael moved across ledges and down service pipes, slipping through a third-floor maintenance entrance. Inside, the casino roared with life, digital machines blinking like starlight, high-heeled women laughing beside crystal fountains, and corporate brats squandering inherited fortunes over pixelated roulette wheels.Michael moved a
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Playing with Fire
Michael sat silently on a metal beam overlooking the loading yard, the mist curling lazily around the rusted shipping containers below. The dawn fog hadn’t yet lifted completely, leaving the harbor cloaked in that familiar pale gray he’d come to associate with new beginnings and looming problems.Cassian Farrell.The name still echoed in his head, louder than it had any right to.He remembered Cassian from his childhood. Even back then, the man had been unbearable, arrogant, smug, always surrounded by the most expensive toys money could buy, and flaunting them in the faces of those beneath him. But beneath all that flair and fake charm, Michael had seen the cracks. Cassian was clever, but not careful. Rich, but not responsible. A man who inherited power but never learned to wield it properly. He’d been the kind of heir who thought everything could be solved with a checkbook or a security detail.That had been years ago. Michael had changed,a great deal from who and what he used to be.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Watch Your Back
The rooftops flew past under Michael’s feet like blurred patches of steel and concrete, the rhythmic thud of his boots never quite loud enough to break the early morning stillness. The wind hissed around him as he vaulted a metal railing, dropped two stories onto a rusted fire escape, then launched himself back up with a single Burst-powered leap.He landed smoothly on the next roof, knees bending to absorb the impact, and kept moving. His coat fluttered behind him like a dark banner. Whitewood’s southern skyline unfolded below in clusters of old factories and high-rises, stitched together by crisscrossing roads and rails, fading into mist at the edges where the sea began.Michael glanced ahead. The harbor wasn’t far now.He exhaled through his nose, more amused than annoyed. “I really need to get a proper ride,” he muttered.The hoverbike was still at the shop for mod upgrades, and with traffic surveillance in the city at an all-time high, running rooftops had become his go-to method
Chapter Twenty-Six: A New Skill
The soft glow of morning filtered through the edges of the curtain, streaks of pale light cutting across the room like gentle lines of intrusion. Michael’s eyes cracked open to the familiar ceiling above him, still slightly faded from years of disuse before they’d moved back into the old house. His head rested heavy against the pillow for a moment longer, mind still half-submerged in the quiet hum of early sleep.Then came the ping.A translucent blue window hovered a few inches from his face.[Hidden Objective Complete: Infiltration and Retrieval][Objective Summary: Successfully infiltrated a high-risk military contractor facility and retrieved the Data Core.][Rewards:] [+1 Level] [Skill Upgrade: Foresight Lv.3 — Future Perception extended to 3 seconds] [New Skill Unlocked: Presence Veil (Passive) Lv.1 — Host can suppress own presence from targets 5 levels below or more.] [+$1,000,000]Michael blinked once, then sat up slowly, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as the interface
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Price of Rising
The moment Michael pulled the data sphere free from its magnetic field, the entire room went dark. A half-second later, everywhere erupted in absolute chaos. The facility trembled beneath his feet as the floor lighting surged to red and klaxons erupted from the walls like a scream rising from the lungs of a dying giant. Somewhere deep in the circuitry, automated systems began collapsing, one after another. Michael didn’t wait to watch the fireworks. Instead, he turned and ran as fast as he could, which was saying something since his Agility was now well over 20. Behind him, turret mounts sparked wildly as their targeting software failed to compensate for the corrupted data stream. The beams of thermal light stuttered and twisted, firing off at random into walls, floors, one even melted through a suspended catwalk before powering down entirely.Michael’s footfalls rang sharp against the metal grating as he bolted across the walkway and leapt over a slanted support beam. His grip tight
Chapter Twenty-Four: Retrieve or Destroy
The walls on Sublevel B4 were different from the upper ones, sleeker, more advanced and humming faintly with energy that prickled against Michael’s skin as he moved. The usual sterile grey of military compounds gave way to panels of smooth obsidian alloy, streaked with thin blue lines that pulsed like veins. The elevator doors slid open without a sound. He stepped out into a circular corridor bathed in faint cyan light. A sign on the wall ahead displayed the words:CORE ACCESS - RESTRICTED PERSONNEL ONLYMichael rolled his shoulders slightly and adjusted the collar of his coat. It wasn’t like he ever waited for permission anyway. He didn’t run this time since there was no need. The corridor was empty, eerily so. There was not a single footstep, no camera in sight, not even a maintenance drone floating by. And yet, he knew better than to assume that meant the place was unguarded.He reached the core chamber doors, a set of twin panels shaped like an overlapping iris, the metal edges wr
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