2026-04-06 20:47:06The bloody night in Geneva slowly left behind a gripping silence. Far from the skyscraper where Arthur Vane fled like a cowardly rat, Caleb Thorne had returned to set foot in the courtyard of the Black Castle, which was filled with the rubble of battle.
In his arms, Lisa was still trembling violently. The young girl buried her face in Caleb's chest, trying to erase the memory of the bone dragon and the massacre of the holy knights from her mind. Caleb walked calmly up the stairs to t
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The Hacker's Debt
"Leave me alone tonight, Bella. My head truly needs total silence."Caleb Thorne's voice sounded very flat and hollow, cutting off the footsteps of Isabella Vane, who was just about to follow him into the Black Castle's study. The woman stopped in the doorway. Her eyes looked sadly at the Shadow Emperor's broad back. Caleb had just returned from the funeral of the five orphanage children he failed to save."Alright. Call me if the pain in your wound stings again," answered Isabella softly, then pulled the door handle and closed it tightly.The castle's main study instantly sank into a gripping silence. Caleb walked unsteadily towards his oversized leather chair behind the giant oak desk. He dropped his body onto the chair with an incredibly heavy sigh.A black leather eyepatch was now fitted around his head, covering his left eye socket, which was permanently blind and completely dead due to his brutal sacrifice a few hours ago.Cough. Co
Ashes of Humanity
"Five small-sized coffins, Caleb. I have seen thousands of corpses in this underworld, but I don't think I will ever get used to seeing coffins that small."Isabella Vane stood close beside Caleb. The incredibly cold and bleak morning wind swept across the public cemetery on the outskirts of the city. In the distance, the sound of ambulance sirens still wailed mournfully in turns from the direction of the orphanage ruins, which had now been leveled to scorched asphalt. The smell of fire smoke was even carried to where they stood.Caleb stood frozen like a stone monument. A black leather eyepatch now covered his completely dead left eye socket. The thick black blood that had stained his face all night had been carefully cleaned by Dr. Hans, but the throbbing pain penetrating to the base of his skull still clearly remained. That wound would never heal. It was the permanent price of a flawed tactic.In front of them, about fifty meters from where Caleb stood,
Inherited Sins
"Get these children out of here, Viktor. Take them away from these ruins right now."Caleb Thorne's voice sounded very hoarse and trembled softly, breaking the choking silence amidst the smoldering rubble of the orphanage. He slowly lowered both his arms that had been holding up dozens of tons of concrete weight. His muscles screamed, the ancient bone vest on his chest cracked and fell to the floor, but he didn't care.Viktor Krum jumped down to the bottom of the ruined crater. The Russian giant immediately stretched out his large, tattooed arms to receive the crying, terrified orphans."Woof! This dog will take them to a warm place, My King. Everyone is safe with me," answered Viktor with a very serious tone, losing his mad laugh after seeing the five crushed small bodies in the corner of the room.Isabella stepped forward hurriedly. Her eyes, emitting silver flashes, stared in horror at Caleb's face. The man's left eye had changed color to a com
The Fall of the False Paradise
"Close your eyes tightly and do not breathe!" roared Caleb with a voice that drowned out the roar of death.A wave of blazing orange fire exploded from beneath the wooden floor. The first C4 explosion tore through the orphanage's foundation in a matter of milliseconds. The dormitory floor split and shattered, spewing pillars of fire that swept the entire room with temperatures of thousands of degrees. The air was instantly burned away.Caleb did not retreat. He hurled his massive body forward. Pure necrotic energy exploded from the remnants of his consciousness, solidifying the shadow nets wrapping the orphans' beds.Boom! Crack!The concrete roof above them collapsed instantly. Steel beams and cement pillars weighing dozens of tons plummeted down onto the room. Caleb thrust both his hands upwards. The muscles in his arms swelled until his veins nearly burst. He held up the giant chunks of the concrete roof purely with his physical strength.<
The March of the Starving
"This is pure biological madness! He just destroyed his own organ!"Bastian slammed both his fists onto the marble desk in his underground control room. The face of the usually calm philanthropist was now as pale as paper. The monitor screen that previously displayed the EMF wave graph suddenly sparked a small explosion, spewing blue electrical sparks into the air before finally dying completely.On the main CCTV screen, Bastian saw the monster still kneeling on the wooden dormitory floor. Caleb Thorne's left eye was now a grayish-white color, completely dead. A thick silvery-black fluid continued to flow from the damaged eye socket, staining his dirty white shirt. The man smiled at the camera, a smile promising the torments of hell."Do you think that crippling sacrifice can save you, Thorne?" hissed Bastian with his breath racing hard. He pressed his radio intercom button roughly. "All field units! The target is severely injured and half-blind inside the
Blood on the Glass
"Mr. Thorne, please stop this madness! You will destroy your own brain!" shrieked Dr. Hans Gruber through the earpiece. His voice cracked with absolute panic. "That optic nerve cable is connected directly to your visual cortex. If you sever it with the force of pure energy, you will suffer a permanent disability!""Shut up and watch your screen, Doctor," whispered Caleb with tightly clenched teeth. His hand holding the black dagger did not tremble in the slightest. "How much time is left before the bombs under these children's beds explode?""Ninety seconds, Sir! But you cannot make a biological sacrifice like this!" argued Hans hysterically.Bastian's laughter drifted again from the intercom speaker on the dormitory ceiling."What are you doing down there, Shadow Emperor? Trying to gouge out your own eyes so you don't have to watch the seconds of your death?" mocked Bastian. His tone of voice was incredibly arrogant, filled with the absolute conf
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