2026-04-24 08:09:41"Seventy-two hours, Mr. Thorne. And you still refuse to give me a single scream."
Gaston twirled his silver scalpel. Silvery-black blood dripped slowly from the tip of the blade, falling into a glass measuring beaker with an incredibly sickening clinking sound.Caleb Thorne hung helplessly in the middle of the very dark and stuffy underground room. Two rusted iron chains that still radiated heat pierced directly through the flesh and bone gaps of his wrists. His large body w
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A Failed Tactic
"Let go your dirty grip from my mother. I will burn your existence until you become nothingness."Caleb Thorne's voice sounded extremely hoarse and trembled violently. The Shadow Emperor pulled back both his numb hands. He realized that physical intervention was completely useless. His nerve-damaged fingers could not grip the astral forms of the experimental ghosts strangling Martha Thorne's neck.Caleb forced himself to stand tall beside his mother's bed. He took short breaths through his still-healthy left lung. His brown eyes glowed with a very dense blood-red color. He decided to fight in two worlds simultaneously. The physical world and the astral world."You chose the wrong opponent tonight," threatened Caleb with a tone of absolute death.Pure necrotic energy exploded from within Caleb's chest. He summoned the highest level of spirit-destroying magic he possessed. Black fire that radiated no heat suddenly flared, wrapping around both his ar
The Split Shadow
"Let her go right now!"Caleb Thorne kicked down the teak wood door of his mother's room until it shattered to pieces. The thick door flew and hit the wall with an ear-splitting explosive sound. Caleb's breathing sounded very wet and damaged. Pitch-black blood dripped from behind his eyepatch, falling to stain his dirty white shirt.On the large bed, Martha Thorne was floundering violently. The shadow hands of small children were strangling the old woman's neck mercilessly. Martha's face had already turned a pale blue, her eyes bulging searching for oxygen that wouldn't come."Get back inside my shadow right now!" roared Caleb full of anger.He stomped his foot on the wooden floor. The Shadow Emperor opened his Domain of the Dead to its maximum. A vortex of astral gravity exploded from beneath the soles of his shoes, trying to forcibly suck all those evil spirits back into the prison of darkness.However, the magic vortex stopped abruptly
Voices from the Past
"Go back to your hell right now, Elias."Caleb Thorne hissed softly. His right hand, wrapped in white bandages, immediately lunged forward. He punched the silhouette of his father taking the form of a pitch-black shadow in the corner of Lisa's room.Crash.Caleb's fist hit the teak wood wall behind the shadow hard. His newly stitched knuckles tore open again. Fresh blood dripped down to the floor. However, Caleb's brain absolutely did not register the pain or physical impact. His sense of touch had died. To him, it was as if he had just punched empty void air.Elias Thorne's laughter echoing inside Caleb's head suddenly distorted. The mad scientist's arrogant laugh shattered, turning into incredibly deafening static. Elias' silhouette on the wall did not disappear. The shadow instead cracked, broke, and split into dozens of far more horrifying figures."Your father has long been dead, My Son."The voice did not come from one mout
Touching the Void
"Nightmares will not dare pass through this door, Lisa. Sleep soundly."Caleb Thorne's voice sounded very soft, almost like a gust of night wind slipping into the master bedroom. The Shadow Emperor sat slowly on the edge of the large bed. The soft mattress sank slightly, bearing the weight of his heavy and incredibly exhausted body.Caleb stared at his sister's peacefully sleeping face. Lisa's chest rose and fell regularly. The young girl curled up comfortably beneath the thick blanket, completely unaware that the man sitting beside her had just slaughtered hundreds of lives in less than twenty-four hours."All our enemies have been leveled to the ground," whispered Caleb to the silence of the room. He swallowed hard, trying to dispel the metallic taste of blood that pooled again at the base of his throat. "Pendelton is dead. Silas Croft is dead. The European underworld now kneels beneath my feet. This castle is the safest fortress in the world for you and
Returning to the Castle
"Scalpel size four. Please hold your breath, Mr. Thorne. This piece of titanium glass is embedded very deeply, scraping right against your radius bone."Dr. Hans Gruber's voice sounded incredibly tense, breaking the silence of the Black Castle's underground operating room. Blinding surgical lights shone directly onto Caleb Thorne's shattered right arm. Silvery-black blood continued to flow, wetting the green medical sheets. The emergency journey from Rome to Switzerland had drained a lot of the Shadow Emperor's blood.Caleb sat leaning back on the iron bed. He did not look at his arm being operated on at all. His left hand held a tablet computer. His one remaining brown eye was busy reading rows of classified digital documents successfully downloaded from the remnants of Panopticon's servers."Just pull the glass out, Hans," ordered Caleb with a very flat baritone voice. He coughed softly. His breathing sounded wet and gurgling due to his completely dead r
The Numb King
"Our debt is paid, Dominus. Our loyalty is now eternal." The Centurion General's heavy voice echoed from behind his bronze helmet. The ancient ghost commander knelt on the blood-stained concrete floor of the helipad."Take back this pride of yours, General," answered Caleb with a very wet-sounding breath. His shattered right hand thrust the Golden Eagle statue forward. "Now keep your promise. Return into my shadow. Stop making my head feel like it is going to split open.""We shall become your absolute shield once more, Emperor. Rome walks with you," said the Centurion General with utmost respect. The ghost form accepted the gold statue from Caleb's hand."Make sure your troops never go on strike again in the middle of a battle. I do not like this charade of a rebellion," threatened Caleb coldly."The delayed vengeance has been settled. You will not hear any more complaints from us, Dominus," replied the general.A grayish-green
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