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AFTER THE PATTERN
Chapter 201 :The world didn’t end.That was the strange part.Billy woke up expecting alarms, sirens, maybe the sky tearing itself open like it had so many times before. Instead, there was only the soft hum of generators and the low murmur of voices outside the temporary shelter.Normal sounds.Ordinary sounds.They felt wrong.He lay still for a long moment, staring at the ceiling—fabric stretched too tight over metal supports—trying to decide whether the pressure in his chest was fear or anticipation.The relic was quiet.Too quiet.That scared him more than when it screamed.---Tyla was already awake.She sat on the edge of a folding chair near the entrance, knees pulled up, arms wrapped around herself. Her hair was tied back messily, like she hadn’t bothered fixing it properly. She looked tired in a way sleep didn’t touch.“You’ve been staring at the ceiling for five minutes,” she said without turning around.Billy exhaled. “You counting?”“No. I can feel when you’re awake.”Tha
A NEW CONSTELLATION
Chapter 200 :The first sign wasn’t dramatic.No thunder. No alarms screaming across continents.It was a flicker.Deep beneath the surface of the world—far from the forge, far from Billy and the others—something that had survived collapse, severance, and near-erasure twitched.The Curator’s shadow had learned patience.It had learned how to wait.---Billy felt it before anyone else.They hadn’t gone far from the forge site yet. Dawn was just beginning to bleed into the sky, turning the horizon pale and uncertain. The world looked deceptively normal again—stone, dust, wind, gravity behaving the way it was supposed to.Too normal.Billy stopped walking.Tyla noticed immediately. She always did now. “What?”He pressed a hand to his chest. The relic was quiet—but not empty. Not gone. It felt like standing in a room after someone had left, knowing they hadn’t gone far.“It’s not over,” Billy said.Owen exhaled slowly. “That wasn’t the plan.”“No,” Billy replied. “That was hope.”They sto
BEFORE THE RUN
Chapter 199 :They didn’t rush it.That was the first thing Billy noticed.For once, no alarms screaming, no ground collapsing under their feet, no relic pulling him forward like a leash. Just the forge sitting out there in the distance, humming beneath layers of stone, patient and waiting.It felt wrong.Billy crouched near the ridge, elbows resting on his knees, eyes fixed on the faint glow bleeding through the cracks in the earth. The relic inside him throbbed in a slow, deliberate rhythm—no pain, no frenzy. Just awareness.Like it knew this was coming.Behind him, Owen worked in silence. He moved the way he always did before something dangerous—not frantic, not hesitant. Methodical. He laid out gear on a tarp: scanners recalibrated for Luoshen interference, signal dampeners, compact weapons modified to fire through distortion fields.This was the version of Owen that reminded Billy he wasn’t just a man tagging along for moral balance.He was a police officer who’d seen what happen
WHERE RELIC'S ARE BORN
Chapter 198 :Owen didn’t find the clue in a blaze of insight.It came the way most real answers did — slow, stubborn, and buried under things everyone else had stopped looking at.The others were asleep when it clicked.Billy was down the hall, stretched out on a narrow mattress he didn’t actually need anymore. Tyla was curled on the couch with her jacket pulled up around her shoulders, pretending exhaustion was the same thing as rest. The building they’d holed up in creaked softly as the wind pressed against its broken windows.Owen sat alone at the table, coffee long gone cold, eyes burning as he scrolled through layered data feeds.News reports. Classified briefings. Old Luoshen archives scraped from half-corrupted servers. Police seizure logs that never made it to public record.He wasn’t chasing relics.He was chasing patterns.And patterns didn’t lie — people did.He froze.There it was again.A location code that kept appearing where it didn’t belong. Not tied to star-points.
THE ONE THING LEFT TO BURN
Chapter 197 :The idea landed badly.It didn’t explode. It didn’t spark an argument right away. It just sat there between them, heavy and wrong, like a truth nobody wanted to touch.“We destroy them.”Tyla’s voice was steady when she said it, but her hands weren’t. She’d been rubbing her thumb against the edge of a cracked relic shard for several minutes now, like she was trying to wear it down through friction alone.Billy looked at her, then at the shard, then back at her again. “You don’t mean lock them away.”“No.” She shook her head once. “I mean end them. Melt them. Shatter them. Whatever it takes so no one — not you, not the shadow, not anyone — can ever use them again.”Owen leaned back against the wall, arms crossed, watching both of them. He didn’t interrupt. He was good at that. Letting people hang themselves with their own thoughts before stepping in.Billy finally spoke. “That’s not how this works.”“That’s how it should work,” Tyla shot back, faster now. “Look at what th
THE SHAPE OF WHAT'S COMING
Chapter 196 :Billy woke up with the taste of copper in his mouth.Not blood. Not pain. Just that sharp, electric bitterness that came when the relic decided to remind him it was still there. Still watching. Still awake.He sat up slowly, careful not to trigger the dull pressure behind his eyes. The sky above them was a washed-out gray, dawn barely convincing the clouds to move. The city below looked calm from this distance — lights fading, traffic resuming, people stepping back into routines like nothing had cracked open beneath their feet.That illusion made his stomach twist.Tyla noticed him stir and straightened immediately. “You okay?”He nodded, then hesitated. “Define okay.”She didn’t push. She just handed him a cup of something warm and waited until he wrapped his fingers around it.Owen stood a few meters away, phone pressed to his ear, voice low and clipped — the tone he used when he was filtering truth from noise. When he hung up, his face was tight.“They’re already spin
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