2026-04-01 17:19:14Isabella's eyes slowly began to close tightly again. Her grip on Lisa's hand weakened until she let go, and the sound of her heavy breathing stopped along with the deadly silence that enveloped the entire Black Castle lobby that night.
"No, no, no! Do not close your eyes now, Miss Bella!" shrieked Dr. Hans Gruber, breaking the silence.The doctor's hands trembled violently as he pressed a stack of thick gauze pads onto the gaping wound in Isabella's chest. Fresh blood contin
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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
The Politician's Logic Flaw
"Time keeps ticking, Mr. Thorne. Three hundred seconds to the most beautiful fireworks in Zurich."Bastian's clear and mocking voice echoed from the intercom speaker hidden in the corner of the dormitory ceiling. Under the beds, the red lights of the five remaining C4 bombs blinked faster and faster.Beep. Beep. Beep.Caleb Thorne was still lying face down on the dirty wooden floor. His breath raced hard. Cold sweat mixed with dust flowed to his temples. Amidst that deadly countdown, a five-year-old little girl jumped down from her bed in fear. Her tiny feet almost touched the wooden board filled with pressure sensors.Caleb reacted faster than a bullet. His large hand grabbed the little girl's waist, pulling her to fall right onto Caleb's chest before the child's soles triggered the explosion. The girl cried hysterically, hiding her face in Caleb's dusty shirt. The other children on the beds also cried loudly, terrified seeing the scary-faced man hugging their friend on the floor."S
An Impossible Choice
"Put your hands down, Mr. Thorne. One touch from you on my body, and those children will burn to ashes in a split second."Bastian smiled very elegantly on the stage. The man swung the black remote control in his hand like an orchestra conductor leading a choir of death."You are digging your own grave too deep tonight, Bastian," answered Caleb coldly. The veins in his neck bulged, holding back anger ready to explode."A grave? I am offering you a playground," Bastian chuckled softly. "Walk out of this hall slowly. A black van in the front lobby is already waiting for you. We are going to play a little game at that orphanage right now."Caleb stared at the projector screen. The faces of dozens of soundly sleeping orphans held back every form of attack he had prepared at the tip of his tongue. His god of death powers were locked tight by the EMF frequencies in this building. If he moved to kill Bastian with physical strength, dozens of innocent liv
The Wrong First Step.
"You all may continue pretending to be angels tonight. But not a single one will leave this room alive."Caleb Thorne's baritone voice cut through the soft orchestral music playing inside the main hall of the Zurich City Hall. His right hand roughly turned the steel lock lever on the giant double doors behind him, permanently sealing the luxurious room from the inside.Hundreds of Swiss elites, prominent politicians, and orphanage donors turned around simultaneously. Whispers of confusion began to fill the crystal-lit room. They stared at the man in the pitch-black suit who had stepped in without an official invitation with faces full of fear.Caleb paid no attention to their gazes. The click of his shoes sounded constantly on the marble floor, parting the crowd of humans who reflexively stepped aside due to the pressure of the murderous aura he brought. His eyes were locked on only one target. Bastian. The public's beloved philanthropist was standing on t
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