2025-08-07 08:47:00The Assembly Dome hadn’t been used in nearly sixty years—not since the last Accord of Unity had been signed under false peace and encoded dominion. Now, its once-glimmering spires were covered in ash and bioresidue, its reflective surface dimmed to bronze. A broken emblem of the old world.
Ayla Murnen stood at the center, arms crossed behind her back, eyes locked on the jagged rupture in the ceiling—where the obsidian tower could be seen rising in the distance. The Watcher structure was still, but the air vibrated like a cathedral tuning fork. A countdown only she and the remaining High Signal Readers could hear.
Seventy hours left.
Veyr arrived, shoulders heavy, but eyes alert. “They’re gathering. All known enclaves are either en route or already linked in. There’s… dissent. Some don’t believe the Watchers exist. Others say it’s just Echo’s final illusion.”
Ayla didn’t
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Chapter 301 – The Dominion’s Final Breath
The blast crater pulsed with faint blue light, the remnants of the Dominion Core’s implosion etched into the scorched earth. Smoke curled from fractured stone, whispering like the ghosts of every secret the Consortium had tried to bury. Ethan stood at the edge, blood drying in a jagged line down his cheek, his breathing ragged but even. Around him, the last survivors of his team staggered toward one another, drawn by shared purpose and the unbearable silence.“Asha?” Ethan’s voice cracked.“I’m here.” Her silhouette emerged from the haze, clutching a charred dataslate. “I’ve got the data. All of it. The names, the funding trails, the black-site locations—they didn’t wipe it in time.”Ethan nodded grimly. “Good. We bury them with truth.”Behind them, the earth groaned. A massive shard of collapsed alloy wall shifted, and a gloved hand reached through. Talon. E
Chapter 300: The Last Silence
The ancient spire at the heart of the Ashen Vale cracked down its center, bleeding light—impossible, searing light—across the scarred landscape. Ethan Cross stood motionless at the cliff’s edge, his eyes locked on the collapsing tower. His breathing was shallow. Behind him, the survivors from Unit Echo staggered forward in silence, bearing wounds too deep for medics or time.Zhenya limped toward Ethan, her voice hoarse. “That was the Citadel Core. It’s… It’s gone.”He didn’t reply. In the sudden stillness, the only sound was the distant keening of the wind over ash. The Consortium’s last bastion—the source of the Parallax Key, the heart of their operations—was no more. What remained was fallout. Radiant fallout. Temporal damage. Unwritten futures.“Cross, we need orders,” Lira called out behind them, wiping blood from her cheek. “There’s still Consortium cleanup pock
Chapter 299: The Sovereign’s Endgame
The tremors beneath the Dominion’s capital were no longer subtle. What began as a distant rumble had now become a full-blown convulsion, shaking the very foundations of the Black Spire. Panic spread like fire through the lower tiers of the city as crimson light bled from the cracks in the earth, staining the air with the smell of scorched ozone and something darker—older.High above, at the pinnacle of the Spire, Ethan Cross stood on the shattered obsidian dais with blood running down his temple. His left arm hung limp, dislocated from the last strike, but his eyes were locked on the thing before him—the Sovereign.No longer shrouded in humanoid form, the Sovereign had fully manifested into its ancient state: a serpentine wraith cloaked in glimmering armor made of collapsed time. Its voice echoed in frequencies that bent space.“You were never meant to reach this far, Ethan. You, who were a product of war and grief. You were built to serv
Chapter 298: The Final Chamber
The moment the obsidian doors of the Aegir Vault groaned open, a searing gust of arcane wind rushed out, thick with the smell of ozone and ancient dust. Ethan raised an arm to shield his face while Nia instinctively pressed her fingers against her temple, grounding her psychic shield. Beyond the threshold lay the Vault’s heart — a chamber sculpted from black crystal, veined with silver like lightning trapped in stone. The silence inside wasn’t empty; it felt conscious.Ethan stepped in first, his boots echoing faintly, as if even sound was reluctant to linger here.“Don’t touch anything yet,” he warned, eyes scanning the vault for traps — mechanical or magical. Beside him, Nia’s fingers brushed the surface of the mirrored walls, watching as their reflections rippled unnaturally. “It’s not just storing information,” she murmured. “It’s remembering us.”Dominik and Selene followed
Chapter 297: The Forsaken Accord
The sky above the Obsidian Threshold bled with unnatural color—amber hues warped by pulsing veins of red lightning that cracked the firmament. Beneath that sky, Elara stood poised on the crumbling platform, staring down at the decaying remnants of the Parallax Key. Its fractured shell hummed with latent energy, struggling to regenerate what had already been lost.“It’s unstable,” Ethan warned, checking the fluctuating readings from his transducer. “One misstep and we blow the last bridge between this world and the Archive.”“The last bridge was burned the moment the Accord was broken,” Elara said bitterly, voice flat as her cloak rippled behind her in the turbulence. “Now we’re just writing the eulogy.”From behind, Seraphine approached with the Cipher Codex cradled in both arms. Her face was bruised, her eyes hollow from too many days without sleep. “This is it,” she said, her voice c
Chapter 296: The Irrevocable Key
The wind howled across the shattered remnants of Citadel Blackreach, its once-impenetrable walls now skeletal shadows in the stormlight. Ethan Cross stood at the cliff’s edge, the obsidian blade humming faintly in his hand. Behind him, the surviving remnants of his team—Selene, Orrin, Ayla, and the badly wounded Marshal Darion—watched in silence. No one spoke. There were no words left for what they had seen in the Heartvault.The threshold to the last Dominion Seal still pulsed like a dying star behind them.“Everything’s changed,” Ayla murmured, voice dry and brittle. “It’s not just about stopping the Consortium anymore. This… this thing inside the vault—it’s not human.”“It never was,” Selene replied flatly. Her silver eyes narrowed. “The Dominion tried to cage a god. And now its chains are breaking.”Ethan didn’t respond. His eyes were f
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